Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [adv prt] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In principle , they can fix their financial risks and get on with the job of dealing with the commercial ones . |
| 2 | Slice fungi and fry down with the butter and onions until all the liquid has evaporated . |
| 3 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 4 | And if it was important , to us and the country , why in the world were n't we snuffing out all those niggling grievances and getting on with the job of winning ? |
| 5 | Some might well be Balliol supporters and go along with the Earl for that reason . |
| 6 | It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation . |
| 7 | Birkett shrugged his shoulders and went on with the fish cakes . |
| 8 | risking their lives and coming back with the whole lot that he collected and brought back again . |
| 9 | The Mercedes burst into flames and broke up with the burning wreckage being thrown among the spectators . |
| 10 | ‘ I suggest that we try to put our differences aside for the next few hours and get on with the business at hand . ’ |
| 11 | Emily and I put our heads together after office hours and came up with the answers we needed . |
| 12 | That has to speak highly for the way in which the software does its internal calculations and comes up with the answers . |
| 13 | The monster fell asleep in a drunken stupor and Susa-no-wo then cut it to pieces and settled down with the maiden . |
| 14 | Similarly , a motherless Glasgow soldier 's daughter was taken in by her grandparents and brought up with the help of an aunt , who married soon after but stayed in the same home . |
| 15 | The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret |
| 16 | The vast majority of these were hastily-assembled hack jobs , pieced together from published sources and fleshed out with the dubious reminiscences of alleged veterans . |
| 17 | Finally , the back bones , who tackle the problems and get on with the work of solving them . |
| 18 | Three pairs of eyes focused on me and I felt like the family pet , the Old English sheepdog that 's lost its marbles and joined up with the wolf pack to go worrying innocent lambs . |
| 19 | Reacting to the killings , the Nobel Peace Prize winner , Desmond Tutu , the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town , said it demonstrated it was time for all South Africa 's politicians ‘ for goodness sake to get off your butts and get on with the business of getting a new constitution for this country . |
| 20 | In other words , many executives in firms experiencing economic difficulties and who know from experience that the inspectorate mainly imposes administrative sanctions will calculate that their best interests lie in not conforming to factory health , safety , and welfare regulations ; instead they will gather their excuses and get on with the violations . |
| 21 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 22 | Derby 's Mark Pembridge , Andy Melville of Oxford and Portsmouth 's Kit Symons came safely through their games and joined up with the squad last night . |
| 23 | In this situation , the onus is on the band to sell all the tickets and to come out with the extra money . |
| 24 | Some stories tell of botos coming up underneath canoes and taking off with the paddles , leaving a lone canoeist adrift on the river , while at other times the dolphin is said to have saved the lives of people from a capsized boat . |
| 25 | And Pilger , an exasperatingly prickly individualist determined to expose the ills of the world , stubbornly refused to lower his standards and fit in with the new requirements . |
| 26 | Quickly put it out of your minds and carry on with the task in hand . |
| 27 | " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes . |
| 28 | Tom had meanwhile dug up his turnips , and set to work hedging , digging ditches and helping out with the other farms , when the extra labour was needed . |
| 29 | ‘ They 're not prima donnas and [ they ] simply roll up their sleeves and get on with the work , ’ says one admiring Du Pont veteran . |
| 30 | It gives local government in Wales the money it needs to provide high quality services and to get on with the job . |