Example sentences of "do [adv] get [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
| 2 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
| 3 | The Barbarians did not get their name because they were wild and indisciplined . |
| 4 | Becker and Graf won Wimbledon and the US Open and did not get their pictures on the front cover of any non-tennis magazines here . ’ |
| 5 | They did not get their photographs signed , but they have had an exchange , a smidgen of repartee with a star . |
| 6 | Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans . |
| 7 | The police did not get his name and address or make enquiries at his workplace to check out his story before they arrested him . |
| 8 | The budget had been the topic of fierce argument , but in the end it was passed by a huge majority , satisfying the Prime Minister , who proclaimed himself a happy man after having threatened to resign if he did not get his way . |
| 9 | Indeed , with little Serevi masterminding their operations , they have opened up such a lead in this version of the game that the world sevens championship , which will be held in Scotland in a year 's time , could turn out to be distinctly one-sided if the countries at this end of the world do not get their act together very rapidly indeed . |
| 10 | ‘ Guilty ’ , ‘ worried ’ , ‘ miserable ’ and ‘ depressed ’ are the words which women use to express their responses to a situation in which they do not get their work done ‘ as it should be done ’ : |
| 11 | If the Greeks do not get their debt under control — and that , be it repeated , means getting a 7%-of-GDP surplus on the ordinary part of their budget , so as to have enough money left over to pay what is due on the debt — they will one day find they can not sell the bonds that keep the debt going . |
| 12 | They got ashore dry shod — as they described those landings in which you do not get your feet wet — but in these harsh conditions , Lieutenant Arthur Komrower suffered severe back and leg injuries when he was crushed between a rock and the 10-ton assault craft that had been on fire . |
| 13 | If you are in the unfortunate position where you do not get your expenses reimbursed , my best advice is go get a job where they are , er , because this is one of the few good things going , er , in terms of tax efficiency and all the rest of it . |
| 14 | ( It gets definition of a kind by way of the firm rhetorical question : " If we do not get our conception of causal and other nomic connection from reality , where do we get it ? " ) |
| 15 | What professional printers do at this stage or fine art printers would be to take their piece of paper using little paper fingerstalls so they did n't get their fingerprints on the paper . |
| 16 | ‘ In the excitement of getting Penny back I ca n't did n't get their names but would like to thank them for their kindness . ’ |
| 17 | But his clients were furious with me ; they did n't get their summer clothes until August ! |
| 18 | ‘ And if they did n't get their Information from downstairs , ’ Charlotte said , ‘ there are other sources . |
| 19 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 20 | It did n't get its chance . |
| 21 | Red Leicester did n't get its name by accident . |
| 22 | At least I did n't get my photo taken by the zoom-lensed police photographer on the touchline ( at least I do n't think I did ) . |
| 23 | ‘ I am voting tactically because Labour does n't have a chance here , but the Liberal Democrats certainly did n't get my vote because of Paddy Ashdown . ’ |
| 24 | I expect I did n't get your message because people in the other bedsits sometimes forget to pass them on . |
| 25 | I hope you did n't get your hair mussed . ’ |
| 26 | So , if you did n't get your act together last week and you want to go to the matinee performance of Winter 's Tale on the third of November . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I did n't get your letter till today . |
| 28 | And mostly you got a dusty answer because if you had n't got shares to put down as collateral , you did n't get your loan . |
| 29 | Well , I should think so ; you 'd grumble if you did n't get your butter , would n't you ? ’ |
| 30 | We toiled away and worked hard but did n't get our game going . ’ |