Example sentences of "not get much " in BNC.

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1 Not a bad taste , but not got much content have they ?
2 He 's not got much of a reputation as a feminist . ’
3 It is probable that we ask permission to use certain shots in the production , and as we have not got much time before the edit , I wonder if you could let us have 1″ PAL copies of these three films ?
4 ‘ I am devastated by what is going on — I have not got much time left and I want to spend it here , ’ said Gladys , who got the Queen 's Medal for her work with the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service .
5 He 's not got much choice really about it .
6 However , You 've not got much time to get your teams in to me .
7 ‘ No , he 's not got much time for anything but work .
8 It 's difficult to take adultery seriously if you 're not getting much pleasure out of it . ’
9 He was concerned that they were getting stuck in a rut and that he was not getting much creative thinking , though his company needed innovation for survival .
10 I 'm not getting much revision done here mother
11 Another widow of 84 ‘ had outlived all her old friends ’ and did not get much support from her children .
12 ‘ Well , you 'll not get much welcome from that quarter , will you ? ’
13 Insp Butler 's hobbies are tracing family trees and watching cricket , although he admits nowadays he does not get much time for either .
14 Granted , if socialists merely develop a list of pat answers to these questions ( nationalisation , ‘ planning ’ ) while failing to fight for more immediately realisable socialist gains outside of government they will not get much of a hearing , but equally to write off the macroeconomic questions as too difficult to speculate about is to forego the right to contest the policies of a reactionary national government .
15 Billy goes out shooting every day but does not get much as his only weapons are a tennis bat and empty cartridge case which he hits at the birds .
16 In a window which does not get much light , a single , showy Boston fern will make a focal point .
17 ‘ I ‘ ar n't got much time .
18 ‘ You have n't got much to say for yourself .
19 If a home has n't got much space and there are still children around , the chances of it working without conflict are reduced .
20 Finally I took a few ends of each colour ( I had n't got much to deal with ) and knitted pieces about twenty stitches by twenty rows , clipped them all together and sent them in with my resignation .
21 Sharing fags when you have n't got much else to share is a way of asserting solidarity .
22 He has n't got much time left to come up with a challenge for 1992 .
23 It did not solve his problem but the poor fellow had to make out his report and he had to find some element of evidence and so far he had n't got much to write down .
24 ‘ In Oxford , if you have n't got much money , you 're nothing .
25 ‘ We have n't got much time , ’ James said .
26 I do n't daydream about things in my future very much because I must admit I have n't got much to daydream for — because I 'm very lucky , I 've got a lovely house , a lovely husband ; we go on lovely holidays , we lead a nice social life , I 've got lovely clothes — I ca n't really daydream and say I wish I was this , I wish I was that .
27 We have n't got much blood now , it 's working away like mad , so now what are you lacking ?
28 ‘ I suppose he has n't got much else to do , at his time of life . ’
29 Cos if they ca n't read through a lot of text and sort it out they have n't got much chance .
30 Er it may have been but you ca n't we have n't got much evidence for that .
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