Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hon W.L. MacKenzie King , Prime Minister of Canada , admitted shyly to Edna Jacques that he had been an ardent fan for over 20 years , and Mrs Nellie McClung , the Canadian novelist , said to her ‘ You have the gift , Edna dear , to ring bells in the hearts of the people ’ . |
| 2 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 3 | The talk got on to quantum , eerie |
| 4 | We got on to dreams because Vern 's interested in them too . |
| 5 | Erm so Elizabeth got on to Aristocrats so what , what happened ? |
| 6 | Did n't you even got on to frogs and rabbits ? |
| 7 | Saw another social worker who got on to housing . |
| 8 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 9 | Then I got on to James again . " |
| 10 | I remember once I got on to Norton because there was this I wanted to get to but I did do some shepherding there , and that was another fun , carrying , and that 's a winter job , carrying the sheep hurdling , hurdles and stakes , I worked with a gypsy , a Romany gypsy , and he could n't speak very much , and tended to sing , as if something not quite right about him . |
| 11 | I was outraged by it and got on to Smith at once , saying that on no account should the students be flogged and that if the sentence was carried out I would leave immediately . |
| 12 | I 'm quite pleased with how I got on at work today with the amount of work I 'd done that |
| 13 | Anyway , I 'll meet you down here tomorrow , tell you how I got on with Gazzer . ’ |
| 14 | They were sage young people and got on with Christopher . |
| 15 | She never got on with Dad , he was too sublime . |
| 16 | ‘ What are you going to do today ? ’ he enquired , joining her at the table as without further ceremony they got on with breakfast . |
| 17 | He just got on with expansion . ’ |
| 18 | I got on with Heather 's bath and feed . |
| 19 | For a couple of days I got on with life 's rich pageant without thinking any more of Jo or her bloody credit cards . |
| 20 | Harris did n't get on with Kirk Douglas when they made The Heroes of Telemark in 1965 ( but then at that time few got on with Douglas ) , and just a year earlier he crossed swords with Mr Epic himself , Charlton Heston , on the set of Major Dundee in Mexico . |
| 21 | If either or both of her sons had decamped to the West , she 'd have shrugged her shoulders and got on with existence . |
| 22 | She got on with Victoria like a house on fire ; as for Mrs Funnell , she even chipped that old lady . |
| 23 | They both convey information from which the hearer could work out how well B got on with semantics that week . |
| 24 | She got on with children and dedicated herself to their wellbeing . |
| 25 | The men worked hard and as you got on in life you just thought this was home , although you had n't the luxuries . |
| 26 | While the masses and nomenklatura flocked in their hundreds of thousands to Glazunov 's exhibitions and he lived lavishly in Moscow , he ably kept going a parallel reputation for dissidence : ‘ [ He ] has been a lifetime opponent of Soviet authority , and his art has always defied the politics and prejudices of his time ’ . |
| 27 | These are extreme cases , but competition for business clients between travel companies is keen and the services laid on for business travellers are considerable and proclaimed through high pressure marketing . |
| 28 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 29 | Girl 's do n't ‘ do ’ the season any more ; it 's not like it was in the past , ’ said Sophia Burrell , 17 , who confessed to having missed most of the grooming session laid on by Lucie Clayton School of Modelling , ‘ because I had to do a law course ’ . |
| 30 | Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors . |