Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] on with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed nothing to be done except carry on with the dinner , but in the afternoon Anne went to see Sarah . |
| 2 | The thing is to take these issues on board and get on with the work as a community of artists . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're not prima donnas and [ they ] simply roll up their sleeves and get on with the work , ’ says one admiring Du Pont veteran . |
| 4 | Some of the courses I know , lecturers go drinking with the students and everything , but they 're all older , suits and ties and things , there 's nothing wrong with that , you just know them to be a lecturer and get on with the work rather than thinking , ‘ we had a nice drink last night , did n't we ? ’ |
| 5 | Finally , the back bones , who tackle the problems and get on with the work of solving them . |
| 6 | I 'll turn this off now and get on with the dinner . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh shut up and get on with the game . ’ |
| 8 | It 's best with anything like that to dismiss it and get on with the game , ’ said Richardson , whose team were playing their opening tour match against an Australian Cricket Board XI in Perth today . |
| 9 | In principle , they can fix their financial risks and get on with the job of dealing with the commercial ones . |
| 10 | ‘ So less of your havers , Bernard , and get on with the job . |
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| 12 | ‘ Can we cut the expert critical review and get on with the job of finding out where Jenny is ! ’ |
| 13 | Well can , can the clerk er ask about getting three tenders , and take the lowest and get on with the job ? |
| 14 | Then he could leave early , and get on with the Business . |
| 15 | The only way to handle excuses is to treat them for what they are and get on with the business of collecting your money . |
| 16 | ‘ Let us be done with the arguments of participant observation versus interviewing — as we have largely dispensed with the arguments for psychology versus sociology — and get on with the business of attacking our problems with the widest array of conceptual and methodological tools that we possess and they demand ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I suggest that we try to put our differences aside for the next few hours and get on with the business at hand . ’ |
| 18 | Reacting to the killings , the Nobel Peace Prize winner , Desmond Tutu , the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town , said it demonstrated it was time for all South Africa 's politicians ‘ for goodness sake to get off your butts and get on with the business of getting a new constitution for this country . |
| 19 | We have to forget about our prejudices , and get on with the task in hand … let's do it ! |
| 20 | Governor Wilson ordered withdrawal of the last National Guard units on May 18 , declaring that it was " time to bring the troops home and get on with the task of rebuilding Los Angeles " . |
| 21 | When they arrive in Eddington , go on , go on to , take the plane and go on with the plane to Ireland . |
| 22 | ‘ The Irish way is to go back to some shebeen and carry on with the whisky all night long , ’ she replied . |
| 23 | Quickly put it out of your minds and carry on with the task in hand . |
| 24 | The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I had just started in general relativity and cosmology . |