Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] on with the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She turned them inside out , returned them to Dot to put on with the insides now on the outside .
2 Doer — urging the team to get on with the task in hand .
3 I took that to be a quiet word of warning and an instruction to get on with the game .
4 urge people to press on with the task in hand especially when they have second thoughts
5 The Ferret was never happy when anyone other than himself was examining a scene of crime and it seemed to Dalgliesh that his impatience to get on with the job came through the wall as a palpable force .
6 All the strained confusions of the night are over , all the sleepless impatience to get on with the job .
7 We should not just trust people to get on with the task of caring for vulnerable children .
8 Will she send out a message to those who oppose smoking and belong to the brigade who say , ’ Do as I say and as I instruct you , ’ to the effect that they should leave ordinary people to get on with the job of smoking and supporting the economy ?
9 Do you think there is an argument for finding natural teachers as opposed to set of people to get on with the job ?
10 He was shaken , slightly concussed and in no state to carry on with the show .
11 ‘ I would be the first person to tell my players to get on with the game because when you do n't do that , you are only upsetting your rhythm .
12 It 's almost as if some teachers hold the belief that the best parents are those that are docile and ignorant about the school , leaving the professionals to get on with the job .
13 The answer is Yes , but it would have taken much longer and with the Government 's 1994 Review so imminent it made good sense to push on with the change process .
14 Several weeks later , on the twenty-first anniversary of the baby 's death , we held a tearful and moving ceremony with candles and poetry , in which Betty said goodbye to her baby and gave herself permission to get on with the rest of her life .
15 As that work comes to er fruition , the staff target will be drafted and in fact work is already begun on that , erm but because the reconnaissance capability wo n't be required until fairly late in the replacement programme then there is no particular hurry to get on with the work .
16 Next morning I was a new woman , quite revitalised and waiting contritely for JTR who I had summoned back up from Edinburgh to get on with the Lewis Ramble .
17 Dyson could imagine Lord Boddy and the executives gathered around him putting deference aside from time to time in order to get on with the gardening , or to discipline some delinquent guardsman .
18 But he knows that new formats take a long time to catch on with the public : ‘ We have n't got expectations of hundreds of thousands of units .
19 Now it 's time to get on with the job . ’
20 Mr Saville added : ‘ If they slap a CPO on the site , then it will be up to the councils to get on with the job of reclamation .
21 That is why we have ensured , through our know-how funds and all the other means at our disposal , that we are providing economic advice and sound advice for training members of the former republics to get on with the job of economic reform .
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