Example sentences of "[adv] want [verb] on with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now that has been reached , he will only want to get on with the future . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We very much want to get on with the renovating it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Now we just want to get on with our lives . ’ |
| 4 | I just want to get on with it . ’ |
| 5 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 6 | When businesses just want to get on with doing business , ‘ to be told you can take out a summons but then must allow three to four months for the other side to put forward defences , then allow more time for adjustments of claims and defences , and then , subject to the availability of a judge , you 'll get a hearing on it in 18 months ’ time , is less than satisfactory ’ , said , senior partner with Dorman Jeffrey . |
| 7 | But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people . |
| 8 | But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people . |
| 9 | For the most part people just want to get on with life as best they can . |
| 10 | Yeah , oh it is neater I agree with that , I just want to get on with it now |
| 11 | This arrangement , cleverly yet quite simply managed , would give him a couple of hours to get on with what he desperately wanted to get on with : to climb into bed with Downes 's beautiful and doubtlessly over-sexed wife , Lucy , and get his bottom on the top sheet before his time ran out . |
| 12 | This is not Norma 's fault , she 's probably quite a nice dear who never wanted the fame , never wanted a prime minister for a husband , just wanted to get on with the washing up back in Huntingdon . |
| 13 | I suspect that for many young Germans it might be pretty meaningless , as it would be for their British or French contemporaries , who simply want to get on with their lives without having to attend to the doings of another generation . |
| 14 | But she passionately wanted to get on with him ; she made every effort to entertain and to captivate , for in proximity he was even more dazzling than from a distance . |