Example sentences of "got on [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to .
2 He might have got on to the motorway . ’
3 When Toby had gone , the headmaster got on to the organizer of the Championships .
4 How had he got on to the subject of Yasser Arafat ?
5 Why had he got on to the subject of Yasser Arafat ?
6 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 .
7 Other medieval houses that are replicated medieval houses just have n't got on to the textiles in the way that we have .
8 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 .
9 There are plenty of ‘ success stories ’ where governments have not intervened , or where it has not even been acknowledged that farmers and pastoralists have quietly got on with the business of conservation for themselves , and frequently provided sustainable surpluses for the market as well .
10 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 .
11 ‘ He 's got on with the job in a pleasant and professional manner .
12 Perhaps f just wanted to go back to find out why f had n't got on with the place when everyone else had !
13 All but he wanted to know how Stephen had got on with the police .
14 It was the House of Commons , and the Cabinet and the Prime Minister that came from the Commons , that Bagehot saw as the efficient working parts of the Constitution as these got on with the job of actually running the show .
15 I asked him why he had n't got on with the other passengers .
16 Then she wonders why we have n't got on with the work .
17 By that time I 'd really stopped noticing whether people are male or female and just got on with the physics .
18 ‘ What have you got on under the leather stuff ? ’
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