Example sentences of "do [not/n't] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enjoy what you can do and do n't get too worried about what you ca n't . |
| 2 | One might avoid the objection , following R. M. Hare , by interpreting ‘ You do n't want to be sick ’ as itself prescriptive , a logical imperative equivalent to ‘ Do n't get sick ’ disguised by the grammatically indicative form . |
| 3 | We need a reprieve and closing guests The Australian Stooges see we do n't get one . |
| 4 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 5 | Well over there you see we do n't get many traffic lights . |
| 6 | I mean she does n't she do n't get through a lot of chocolates does she ? |
| 7 | What , you could then do which I think would probably help , cos you see you do n't get State Retirement Pension till you 're sixty five |
| 8 | I 'm not sure that honesty 's a word which I would er do n't get me wrong , I 'm not suggesting that a salesman 's dishonest , do n't think that . |
| 9 | World population , erm probably what I 'm gon na have to do is , although they , they said you ca n't do it do n't get any ideas about doing it with because it 's not possible . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I did not get the impression they were reaching out for help , there was not a general mood of crisis . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Edwards did not get the best price he could have , ’ a merchant banker said . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He did not get it . |
| 17 | Perhaps the prime minister expected that Willink would push for a Magdalene man but he did not get a firm line out of him . |
| 18 | To cut down on expense he did not get the big factory spreaders but started to spread it himself with tractor and shovel . |
| 19 | Men did not get rich through running as they did through boxing . |
| 20 | Ideologically they did not get very far . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They did not get far . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | By authorising force , the UN did not get itself a say in the running of the war . |
| 26 | The witnesses did not get a chance to give evidence against the killer in court . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ! ’ |