Example sentences of "[coord] get on " in BNC.

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1 After all , the weather does not normally stop you getting to work , playing golf , or getting on with the rest of your life .
2 This is the time when most parents retire to a comfortable chair or get on with their other jobs .
3 ‘ I do n't think they would do almost anything to sell records or to get on .
4 They were sage young people and got on with Christopher .
5 I pretended not to notice her look of astonishment and got on with my shining .
6 For the rest of the time , we talked only of natural history and local gossip , and got on very well .
7 If either or both of her sons had decamped to the West , she 'd have shrugged her shoulders and got on with existence .
8 That was all right then , April thought , and got on again with her pastry rolling .
9 They tried to communicate and got on very well , despite the language difficulties .
10 ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’
11 We therefore assumed that he knew what he was doing , and got on with our work as well .
12 In the end , of course , we all pulled our socks up and got on with the job .
13 She was glad to see her friends , naturally , and she loved the cottage , and got on quite well with Susan ; but at first she was completely baffled by the simple yet busy life they led .
14 Paul became a frequent visitor at Marcelle 's house and got on famously with her five grown-up children .
15 There was one small group though who went through to the store area at the back of the hut and got on with something really quietly .
16 I took this bass out on a gig and got on very well with it .
17 And Graham acknowledged : ‘ He accepted what was said , and got on with the job .
18 He loved his home in Ireland and got on with the people .
19 This huge bull just walked up and got on with it . ’
20 PIETER Muller read the messages of hate , shrugged and got on with the job of becoming one of the best centres in the world .
21 ‘ I have been around too long to take anything for granted so when I saw which way the wind was blowing I just buckled down and got on with playing . ’
22 ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’
23 Ex-US Army paramedic Matthew Brafman , 33 , had ‘ a reasonable bedside manner ’ and got on well with the patients at the geriatric hospital where he worked .
24 Having blown his lunch , he then strolled back on set and got on with the matter in hand .
25 He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist .
26 I did the minimum of work academically and got on with my sport — at first soccer — and they never bothered me . ’
27 HE CHATTED to his old acquaintance Al Gore , and got on famously with Bill Clinton ; and as Chris Patten , the governor of Hong Kong , left Washington , officials lined up to say what a fine fellow he was .
28 Opposite my house on Bronnaya Street there used to live the remarkable actress Alice Koonen , the wife of Taírov , and she and I were very fond of each other and got on very well together .
29 Murdock stayed in Cornwall for about 19 years and got on much better with the miners than Watt had done .
30 If anyone caught her curious eye , they just smiled politely back and got on with their business .
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