Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
| 2 | While police in Strathclyde push on with their high-profile weapons amnesty , Operation Blade , the Lothian force has adopted a lower key approach in keeping with the scale of the problem . |
| 3 | Secure the long bullrush leaves around the pond , sticking on with a little fondant . |
| 4 | Sticking on with a little royal icing or glue , wrap the strip carefully around the edge of the roof , scalloped edge upwards . |
| 5 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 6 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 7 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 8 | ‘ It really is time he got on with running his own business and let us run ours . |
| 9 | Though he denounced the American-led initiative to establish protected enclaves in the north as an infringement of Iraq 's sovereignty , he did not intervene as western soldiers got on with what is indeed a mighty infringement . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They got on with their lives , did n't interfere , knew nothing of human quarrels , obeyed natural laws without any chicanery . |
| 12 | They were sage young people and got on with Christopher . |
| 13 | ‘ … but strange , ’ I said , ‘ because I believe she never got on with her mother . ’ |
| 14 | Anyway , I 'll meet you down here tomorrow , tell you how I got on with Gazzer . ’ |
| 15 | I pretended not to notice her look of astonishment and got on with my shining . |
| 16 | Waving to him , Mungo got on with sanding the unfinished side of the gate . |
| 17 | If either or both of her sons had decamped to the West , she 'd have shrugged her shoulders and got on with existence . |
| 18 | Maggie got on with making the breakfast . |
| 19 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 20 | As for Irina , Franca could not , and did not try to , make her out , but got on with her perfectly well . |
| 21 | She never got on with Dad , he was too sublime . |
| 22 | ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’ |
| 23 | Apart from asking me if it might be ‘ right lip ’ or ‘ left edge ’ he just got on with it himself . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | You lost touch with each other because your partner never got on with her . |
| 26 | We therefore assumed that he knew what he was doing , and got on with our work as well . |
| 27 | I got on with Heather 's bath and feed . |
| 28 | In the end , of course , we all pulled our socks up and got on with the job . |
| 29 | Privately , Matt Lynch thinks it is about time that the Republic got on with disposing its own toxic waste . |
| 30 | 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 . |