Example sentences of "did [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which er I did eventually get on to and was a convenor for quite a number of years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now , even in it took us some , some time to get the situation under control but we did eventually get it under control but , as I say , not without a lot of misgivings and very very strong complaints from the public at large . |
| 4 | ‘ Mind you , they never actually say when , and you did rather get dropped in at the deep end . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I did not get the impression they were reaching out for help , there was not a general mood of crisis . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Mr Edwards did not get the best price he could have , ’ a merchant banker said . |
| 9 | On the prospect of facing Ballesteros , Faldo , who did not get a degree in journalism , remarked : ‘ With all the time he 's had off this afternoon I hope Carmen will have worn him out . |
| 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 | He did not get it . |
| 12 | Perhaps the prime minister expected that Willink would push for a Magdalene man but he did not get a firm line out of him . |
| 13 | To cut down on expense he did not get the big factory spreaders but started to spread it himself with tractor and shovel . |
| 14 | Men did not get rich through running as they did through boxing . |
| 15 | Ideologically they did not get very far . |
| 16 | But Bodo did not get round to answering that question because , to another curse from Herr Nordern , the door opened again — only this time the frame was blocked by Frau Nordern , her pale face paler than usual , her hand at her throat , and her eyes wide and staring . |
| 17 | They did not get far . |
| 18 | That game was billed as football 's Armageddon and the fact that there was no trouble between rival fans in the Rheinstadion did not get in the way of a good hooligan story . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | By authorising force , the UN did not get itself a say in the running of the war . |
| 21 | The witnesses did not get a chance to give evidence against the killer in court . |
| 22 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
| 23 | It suggests to the black who gets the job , and the white colleagues he meets , that he did not get there on merit , but because of the colour of his skin . |
| 24 | She has been unable to get an academic job since ; she did not get a job in science until 1990 , when she was hired by Genetics Institute , a biotechnology company founded by one of her few supporters , Mark Ptashne of Harvard . |
| 25 | I heard of it indirectly , and from different sources : ‘ even the telephone torn from its moorings ! ’ , ‘ chamber-pots smashed , windows smashed , doors kicked in ! ’ , ‘ things thrown about , things broken , things taken away — there was hardly a house in the village that did not get something ! ’ |
| 26 | You always were spoiled , and petty , if you did not get your own way . |
| 27 | The horses did not get breakfast that morning : everyone was too busy . |
| 28 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 29 | I think his success in getting them was part of the reason I did not get them . ’ |
| 30 | It was better yesterday , with no bogeys and three birdies at the third , eighth and 15th , where he argued with John Scrivener , chairman of the R&A Rules committee , over a free drop he did not get . |