Example sentences of "do [adv] get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well over there you see we do n't get many traffic lights . |
| 2 | One might avoid the objection , following R. M. Hare , by interpreting ‘ You do n't want to be sick ’ as itself prescriptive , a logical imperative equivalent to ‘ Do n't get sick ’ disguised by the grammatically indicative form . |
| 3 | World population , erm probably what I 'm gon na have to do is , although they , they said you ca n't do it do n't get any ideas about doing it with because it 's not possible . |
| 4 | Well if if we do only get four people it 's going to be more is n't it ? |
| 5 | In London , the Foreign Office declined to comment on Mr Keating 's speech , saying it did not get involved in elections in other countries . |
| 6 | Men did not get rich through running as they did through boxing . |
| 7 | One did not get dirty hands working a Monotype . |
| 8 | I mostly enjoyed staying with my friends away from home and I did not get homesick . |
| 9 | In a book generally very critical of Reagan , this comes as a rather surprising encomium to his effectiveness in office , although Stockman also makes it clear that the president did not get all that he had asked for in tax cuts . |
| 10 | Of course , they did not get all that they wanted , but they will be back for more . |
| 11 | The letter had not been answered , and the Laird of Gartmore took offence , declaring ‘ that if he did not get such trifles to oblige his friends that they might depend upon his going against them ’ . |
| 12 | Women , who predominated in the junior schools , did not get equal pay in principle until 1955 ( or in reality until 1962 ) , despite a vigorous campaign throughout the 1940s , so yet further inequality was built in between groups of teachers . |
| 13 | He did not get drunk with his colleagues , he did not share their dedication , even their ambitions . |
| 14 | Someone has pointed out that this would require an ability to control the Royal Mail to ensure that letters did not get lost ! |
| 15 | ‘ They just did not get lost , ’ said Pion . |
| 16 | For some reason the ‘ Poet-Public-Faith ’ article did not get used ; but meanwhile Collingwood , whose acquaintance I had made , had received the advancement he amply deserved , and I wanted to write in The Criterion about his first lecture as Professor . |
| 17 | Another widow of 84 ‘ had outlived all her old friends ’ and did not get much support from her children . |
| 18 | Of course , he did not get complete ownership for he did not buy the ring but the limited title he got was perfectly valid and he could enforce that against the jeweller . |
| 19 | They did not get many phone calls and any other time she would have rushed out into the hall to see who it was . |
| 20 | The aim of the ‘ new ’ hospital was in part to lessen overcrowding in the other twenty mental hospitals of the region , from which referrals would be taken , and in part to develop specialist methods of treatment for those who did not get better under ordinary therapeutic regimes . |
| 21 | Unlike the stag , the tape-recorder did not get tired and when the tape-recorder roared at high rate , the stag roared less . |
| 22 | Although I did not get this trouble with my machines , we used to suffer badly when we first got our computer . |
| 23 | He did not get full credit for his oceanographic work on the Gulf Stream during his two voyages . |
| 24 | And one in three of the women said they did not get enough respect from male superiors . |
| 25 | The Security Council always tut-tutted when anybody suggested that it was trying to starve anybody to death , but if sanctions were going to be effective then people would die because they did not get enough to eat . |
| 26 | But they did not get more help from community nurses and they were less likely to be admitted to , or to die in , a hospital or hospice . |
| 27 | If on any of the pay-days , your employee did not get any pay ( for example , if wages had been paid in advance at holiday time ) , the ‘ blank weeks ’ are still included in the calculation . |
| 28 | One group swore that they did not get any salary , but took the job to attract men for prostitution ; and others went out of their way to prove their own sophistication by talking to them . |
| 29 | Still , she would gaze in wonder at Fleury 's clear , though dirty , countenance and wonder why he did not get any . |
| 30 | In the original scheme a new occupier did not get any relief of this kind . |