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 .
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