Example sentences of "[adv] get on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 2 | In total therefore there are seven times as many graduate men among all employees , so getting on to the wage profiles that grow fastest and last longest is very much a matter of educational credentials . |
| 3 | He was n't strong enough to get on to the par-5s in two for eagle chances , so he just chipped and putted for birdies . |
| 4 | If only to get on to the practical arrangements . ’ |
| 5 | That 's reach a common understanding which reflects the realities of a relationship we enjoy at the present day so that we can all get on with the task of serving our members and forming a Labour government . |
| 6 | If that could be added that would achieve my objectives and we can all get on to the debate about V A T on . |
| 7 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on with the job quickly . ’ |
| 8 | Mrs. Mott had better get on with the job of cancelling them . |
| 9 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 10 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 11 | But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand . |
| 12 | They just got on with the job . |
| 13 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 14 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 15 | The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton . |
| 16 | It was amazing that someone who had won the British Open three times and come second once over the past four years should have to qualify , but the boss just got on with the job . |
| 17 | By that time I 'd really stopped noticing whether people are male or female and just got on with the physics . |
| 18 | For most , just getting on to the list will be the end of the road . |
| 19 | Why , therefore , did congress not get on with the business of removing a patently guilty president ? |
| 20 | For the two women , Bumface 's dismissal merited no more than perfunctory laughter and a slight impatience with Charles for not getting on with the business of bottle opening . |
| 21 | Should it be as many as seven times and Jesus had replied both no , no you should be able to forgive forgive them seven times , it should be seventy times in other words stop thinking about counting and just get on with the forgiving . |
| 22 | Did you notice I did refrain from discussing my hands and I just get on with the game ! |
| 23 | No you just get on with the one you 've got . |
| 24 | ‘ People are n't allowing us to just get on with the job . |
| 25 | Now though I 've got to just get on with the rest of my life |
| 26 | ‘ We have not got a lot of money and we have got to just get on with the job of trying to sort things out on the field . |
| 27 | You have to just get on with the next board . |
| 28 | Ace also felt a twinge of sadness for the Colonel , but felt it best to get on with the job in hand . |
| 29 | In the absence of more detailed evidence we can only speculate whether the more vocationally , or instrumentally , motivated applicants are , the less willing they will be to consider other , alternative courses and institutions if they do not get on to the course they wanted . |
| 30 | He could not get on with the believing Jews from Eastern Europe whose religion and traditions he neither shared nor understood . |