Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] do [not/n't] get " in BNC.

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1 And anyway , I 'll have to go next door to take over from Arthur if my father does n't get back in time . ’
2 ‘ Perhaps my father did n't get that plane , ’ I thought .
3 My aunt did n't get many letters from her , and those she did get were censored , but from the way Zdenka wrote , it was obvious that she was very hungry .
4 Only about two of my mates do n't get a hiding .
5 ‘ I had this notion ( on coming to Britain ) that if my family did not get any sunlight they would vanish ! ’ 1
6 I 'll make sure their heads do n't get on their chests .
7 Between them they invented a sort of polka , in which their feet did not get too mixed up .
8 ‘ You have only to hop over the wall to reach them , supposing their dogs do n't get you . ’
9 Sally Tippett hopes they 'll provide the kind of help her husband did n't get .
10 A couple of lads who looked as if they were moonlighting from a Youth Training Scheme were trying to reglaze the window from the inside , underneath the plastic so their haircuts did n't get damp .
11 Just to ask them whether or not religion plays an important part in their life does not get us very far .
12 If so , then where the Aristotelians go wrong is not so much that their procedures do not get us knowledge , as that they have a restricted or incorrect notion of what knowledge actually is .
13 They see this as a way of helping to ensure that their employees do not get a raw deal — for example , when candidates for promotion are being compared .
14 She returned home , but she and her mother did not get on very well .
15 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 ?
16 Just watch you girls do n't get used .
17 Sergeant Joe 'll see yer sprain do n't get worse , 'e 'll get the doctor in if it does .
18 he knows that if his products do n't get there on time , his competitors ' will .
19 Probably his parents did n't get more than half a dozen calls a week , Agnes realised .
20 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 .
21 Hopes his leg does n't get woodworm
22 It 's coming to something , I hope them buggers do n't get in .
23 Yes , some of them Charlotte do n't got over there lovey there 's some poo there come on .
24 Me and me mam did n't get on , we started fighting and then I started shoplifting .
25 Keep an emery board handy in case of nail snags , so your teeth do not get to them first !
26 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 .
27 I can well believe it , it 's a wonder your typewriter did n't get a hernia .
28 Says Morrissey : ‘ If as a child , you live in an environment where your parents do n't get on , it 's quite crippling .
29 Vary them so that your customers do n't get used to your routine .
30 Our amendments do not get proper consideration on Report or in Committee if there is a timetable motion .
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