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 . |