Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount .
32 ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’
33 He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night .
34 Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one .
35 As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings .
36 But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings .
37 ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’
38 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 .
39 In the end , of course , we all pulled our socks up and got on with the job .
40 Gone are the days when professionals left the business of fees , commissions , variation charges , reimbursables and the rest to underlings whilst they got on with the interesting work .
41 After we 'd agreed the itinerary I got on with the detailed flying planning , using the new French VFR maps and the American TPC ( Tactical Pilotage Charts ) which we bought from Stamfords in London .
42 He got on with the job .
43 And Graham acknowledged : ‘ He accepted what was said , and got on with the job .
44 He loved his home in Ireland and got on with the people .
45 Everyone got on with the business at hand , preoccupied with the problems of food shortages , lack of funds and compliance with the rules of the Islamic order .
46 PIETER Muller read the messages of hate , shrugged and got on with the job of becoming one of the best centres in the world .
47 ‘ I got on with the work , tried very hard to stay jovial , and kept a smiling face .
48 Having blown his lunch , he then strolled back on set and got on with the matter in hand .
49 In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man .
50 Throughout this time , prison staff and managers passed the various ‘ crisis ’ totals , got on with the task , absorbed everyone sent to them by the courts and , somehow , despite a crumbling prison estate , avoided total chaos .
51 Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat .
52 Uncle Titch just shrugged and got on with the important things in life .
53 In the old days we got on with the job , jollied staff along if they needed it , kicked the sluggards in the backside , encouraged the unconfident and persuaded a reluctant and sceptical police force to use us .
54 Deliberately she pushed the letter to the bottom of the pile , to save it for later while she got on with the work which awaited .
55 Things happened , one heard stories , but overall you got on with the job .
56 Without his bad-tempered dad , Rab C. Nesbitt , to annoy him , Wee Burney got on with the job of handing a trophy and a Cash Club Account containing £10 to young Heather Stobbs .
57 ‘ We were sent upstairs to address envelopes as ‘ the girls ’ ‘ , she recalls , ‘ while Clive got on with the serious business of deciding about the paper .
58 I have to say that if some of those born again modernizers had supported us then , we could have settled these issues long ago , and got on with the business of winning elections , which I thought was what party politics was about .
59 She went , and I got on with the life of Ellen Parkin , about to emerge from her chrysalis , to spread her wings as Eleanor Darcy .
60 Watching Silas , the answer evaded her because his face remained expressionless , so she pushed the question away from her and got on with the job .
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