Example sentences of "did not get [det] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Of course , they did not get all that they wanted , but they will be back for more .
3 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 ’ .
4 Another widow of 84 ‘ had outlived all her old friends ’ and did not get much support from her children .
5 They did not get many phone calls and any other time she would have rushed out into the hall to see who it was .
6 Although I did not get this trouble with my machines , we used to suffer badly when we first got our computer .
7 And one in three of the women said they did not get enough respect from male superiors .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Still , she would gaze in wonder at Fleury 's clear , though dirty , countenance and wonder why he did not get any .
13 In the original scheme a new occupier did not get any relief of this kind .
14 But it did not get any better .
15 PS Mark , I did not get any slippers although I could do with some .
16 ‘ I had this notion ( on coming to Britain ) that if my family did not get any sunlight they would vanish ! ’ 1
17 A fair question , which did n't get much of an answer .
18 ‘ I did n't get much schooling .
19 I did n't get much opportunity to talk to for any length of time but she managed to arrange to meet with the others with young babies and we planned to get together again later that week .
20 ‘ Well we did n't get much sleep last night , so I am a bit tired , ’ replied Miss K. ‘ Good , ’ replied her acquaintance .
21 Although Mum was working at the fish shop she did n't get much for her labours , sometimes only some fish and chips .
22 did n't did n't get much of you last time speak very quietly .
23 We did n't really do anything with it and certainly did n't get much coverage .
24 Well we did n't get much pa pay .
25 Erm Well I 'm a trained teacher but er I did n't get much experience in teaching although I had obtained my degree in teaching in nineteen fifty-eight .
26 They agreed , but they were n't very keen , and she did n't get much encouragement in her religious life at home .
27 We have some wry wry smiles from some of the older people er in the group here because they er did n't get much when they were at the formative stages of their careers .
28 I did n't get much of an impression of her .
29 He did n't get much help or sympathy from the others .
30 ‘ After all , we did n't get much sleep last night . ’
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