Example sentences of "do [not/n't] get [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Enjoy what you can do and do n't get too worried about what you ca n't . |
2 | Although ‘ Rastaman Vibration ’ did not get universally good notices on release in 1976 , time has offered it a better response . |
3 | However the Messerschmitts did not get away unscathed — indeed Fw . |
4 | The posts did not get nearer . |
5 | She did not get up and come towards him as he got out , but waited until he had crossed the grass to sit down beside her on the wooden seat . |
6 | Lillee bowled another bouncer which did not get up as much as Fletch anticipated and it hit him straight on the head as he took his eye off the ball . |
7 | It tapped its tail on the floor when I came in but did not get up . |
8 | Then the crowds were running , and the ones who had fallen did not get up . |
9 | He did not get up , went on sitting there devouring my face with his black eyes . |
10 | But Bodo did not get round to answering that question because , to another curse from Herr Nordern , the door opened again — only this time the frame was blocked by Frau Nordern , her pale face paler than usual , her hand at her throat , and her eyes wide and staring . |
11 | I made a few suggestions , creating chances , scoring goals , but it did not get through . |
12 | News did not get through to Innocent at the time of the preparations for the Fourth Crusade : sometimes the news might be deliberately withheld . |
13 | A few units , inevitably , were not warned in time , the radio messages and despatch riders did not get through , but nothing serious happened , a few more border incidents at dawn , adding to a list already long , was all . |
14 | His parents did not get on and parted during the war , which put an end to the old hierarchic world of Amnersfield , where you were not to look at your masters when they came up the drive , but to hoe on regardless . |
15 | A Welsh smallholder quarryman moved into the family farm so that his wife could go out to earn as a washerwoman , but the children did not get on well with their step-grandmother : ‘ There was a very hard side to her , she was a very stern woman , and we did n't like her . ’ |
16 | And then , supposing they did not get on ? |
17 | Until now neither Lineker nor Taylor had admitted what everyone close to the England camp knew — they simply did not get on . |
18 | Earlier this year she persuaded a judge to let her stay with her boyfriend 's family because she did not get on with her father , who had recently been reconciled with his wife . |
19 | She was now unhappy living there , did not get on with the son 's girlfriend , and wanted her money back so she could live elsewhere . |
20 | It is widely rumoured that Pillsbury and Ruth Carter Stevenson , an influential trustee of the National Gallery , did not get on , and also that several National Gallery staffers were , in the words of one curator , ‘ absolutely terrified ’ at the prospect of Pillsbury 's appointment , the general feeling being that ‘ heads would roll ’ in a grand sweep . |
21 | Indeed , it is difficult to see how knowledge would advance if people did not get on with ‘ normal ’ work much of the time . |
22 | As she was still at school , she had been assigned a tutor but this had stopped as they did not get on . |
23 | She returned home , but she and her mother did not get on very well . |
24 | Although at sometimes we did not get on we generally were content playing together . |
25 | Can the Government be held to blame for such claims as this — a Turkish Cypriot claiming asylum on the basis that her mother did not get on with her husband and was trying to break up her marriage ? |
26 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
27 | He said they did not get near enough to the 92-year-old Queen Mother 's third-floor room to pose a security risk . |
28 | An inspector and two crews were stranded at Fleetwood and did not get home until 5.00 p.m. the next day . |
29 | I did not get home till 6:00 am on sunday after the spurs game ! ! ! but that 's another story . |
30 | But it did not deal with the reasons why people were poor ; it did not get down to the underlying needs of the sick , the disabled , the fatherless , and so on . |