Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could n't forget , as the lights twinkled on around the entire hillside , that this man owned them all , every last apartment , every cypress , every swimming-pool and tennis court . |
| 2 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 3 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 4 | They got on to the airfield that night and started to place their bombs , but as the aircraft were widely dispersed , this took time in the dark . |
| 5 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 6 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
| 7 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 8 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |
| 9 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 10 | I got on to the roof : the upper levels of mortar had crumbled so much that it was doubtful if the stack would survive the next gale . |
| 11 | Cecilia got on to the platform . |
| 12 | And then I got on to the , I was convenor of the housing allocation committee for very many years . |
| 13 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 14 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 15 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 16 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 17 | It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house . |
| 18 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
| 21 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 24 | ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the end , of course , we all pulled our socks up and got on with the job . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He got on with the job . |
| 30 | And Graham acknowledged : ‘ He accepted what was said , and got on with the job . |