Example sentences of "get on to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off . |
| 2 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 3 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Cecilia got on to the platform . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 16 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 19 | Conversation , not only on that day , got on to An Adventure and would not easily get off it , though we wished to be speaking of other things . |
| 20 | It was almost as small as the circle of names and acquaintances of the average senior civil servant , and was reduced further by the fact that once they had got on to a board , many businessmen rapidly came to resent the amount of time the job demanded . |
| 21 | Sitting in the dreary Independence Hotel in Tehran late at night , McFarlane fuming in his room , the rest of the party had got on to a conversation about radars . |
| 22 | But we had got on to a subject I do happen to know something about . |
| 23 | He might have got on to the motorway . ’ |
| 24 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 25 | How had he got on to the subject of Yasser Arafat ? |
| 26 | Why had he got on to the subject of Yasser Arafat ? |
| 27 | Other medieval houses that are replicated medieval houses just have n't got on to the textiles in the way that we have . |
| 28 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 29 | When Toby had gone , the headmaster got on to the organizer of the Championships . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's like you get on to a list , ’ he suggests with a smile . |