Example sentences of "never get [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd never get across the fields to the barn . ’ |
| 2 | You would never get across the door for a start . |
| 3 | But institutional investors ' reaction so far has been unenthusiastic or even hostile , and without their support the APB 's ideas will never get off the ground . |
| 4 | He smiled a slow smile and pointed out callously , ‘ The chances are that your business will never get off the ground and I 'll end up cheated of the money you owe me . ’ |
| 5 | If dad starts looking through there he 'll never get down the street . |
| 6 | ‘ Because he stayed in the bath too long and got shrunk , ’ said his grandad , who could never get into the bathroom when he wanted to because William or his mum were usually there , her in the bath or him on the lavatory reading a comic , which was one of his little pleasures in life . |
| 7 | He wanted to hit a 4-iron but I thought that would never get to the hole . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll never get to the stile , ’ gasped Billy and prepared to turn and face the animal . |
| 9 | I 'll never get to the lavatory . |
| 10 | She knew that as surely as she knew she would never get to the rave in Woodham Woods . |
| 11 | Did you never get to the stage where you to took stuff out or |
| 12 | She 'd never get through the ordeal without cracking up completely . |
| 13 | Oh , you 'll never get through the week then with ten pounds . |
| 14 | I could never get over the transformation of the vast auditorium by the dimming of the lights , the beautiful changes of colour on the curtains , and the anticipation brought on by the roaring lion , the muscle man with his gong the snow capped mountain , the searchlights probing the 20th Century . |
| 15 | The Decrucqs were one family who could never get over the loving care he lavished on their small son when he fell desperately ill with typhoid fever . |
| 16 | I 'll never get over the grief of that wound . |
| 17 | She says she 'll never get over the loss . |
| 18 | I imagined the whole business of running to the wire , and setting up the ladder a thousand times , but I could never get beyond the point when I set my foot on the bottom rung . |
| 19 | I would guarantee him an exclusive , pictures and all , which is something he 'd never get from the police department . |
| 20 | FOR THE title of his last chapter Paul Fussell borrows Walt Whitman 's prediction about the American Civil War , ‘ The real war will never get in the books ’ , and then comments : ‘ Nor will the Second World War , and ‘ books ’ includes this one . ’ |
| 21 | He 'll never get in the way of this , never complaining that " things are too difficult " , never creating barriers in the way of helping them . |
| 22 | If she was her mother 's sort then she would never never get among the life that everybody else seemed to get . |