Example sentences of "[adv] get on [prep] [art] " 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 Erm we 'd better get on to a few other things .
8 ‘ Then you 'd better get on with the job quickly . ’
9 Mrs. Mott had better get on with the job of cancelling them .
10 At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 They just got on with the job .
14 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 ?
15 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 .
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 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 .
20 Did you notice I did refrain from discussing my hands and I just get on with the game !
21 No you just get on with the one you 've got .
22 ‘ People are n't allowing us to just get on with the job .
23 Now though I 've got to just get on with the rest of my life
24 ‘ 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 .
25 You have to just get on with the next board .
26 Ace also felt a twinge of sadness for the Colonel , but felt it best to get on with the job in hand .
27 And you know in one week , but I 'm quite willing you know just to get on with the handicraft , but I just ca n't be committed .
28 From a family of fish merchants , he has served on Billingsgate committees and all but despairs of ‘ them ever getting on with the real business of selling fish ’ .
29 It says right get on to a new line .
30 Right get on to the next there .
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