Example sentences of "get on the " in BNC.

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1 The British team looked quite forlorn in comparison by the time the fighters got on the mat , the Japanese conceding them a small corner .
2 He had been anxious in case white hairs got on the suit , which must mean that , wherever he decided to go , he would go somewhere .
3 When the man had had his face washed ( by stella ) and been given a drink , and one of the barmen had called for a taxi , Mother got right up and got on the stage and told Gary she was ready for her song now .
4 Helmut Kohl 's calls to brief Major on the British economy are doubtless answered by a builder screaming at the German Chancellor to speak English , or ordering him to get off the line so they can deal with the other jobs they 've got on the go .
5 Within weeks , I was features editor , had met Bon Jovi , grown my shifty Morrissey quiff out and got on the Music For Nations mailing list forever .
6 As a stunt Sutton and thirty others queued at a bus stop , got on the bus , and changed into home-made ‘ Lord Denning ’ gowns , complete with wigs made out of carpet tiles .
7 What else have you got on the killer ? ’
8 MIPS does n't know what it 's costing Texas Instruments to produce Sun 's Tsunami but based on its got on the silicon , MIPS is betting the margins are n't that great .
9 I think we need I accept I think we need to look at certain areas we need to look at the entrance I mean if we were doing the entrance again we would have electric doors on what like they 've got on the Harvey Centre so you do n't have to fight your way in I 'm thinking of doors like this we 'll do that .
10 There 's another item of news , which erm , er Ron only got on the sixteenth August and it 's about the pre-congress pensioner 's march and rally , now the congress is held in Glasgow , so I think we were n't going to that one anyway , but it just giving details of erm the arrangements for the pensioner 's march which we usually have , we usually attend if it 's in the South anywhere , but that 's just for information .
11 I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list .
12 When she wrote Catherine 's name she started to cry , but the thought of how ludicrous it would be , how corny , if a tear got on the note and smudged the biro , stopped her .
13 It 's better than that junk she 's got on the lower level .
14 One client of a Harvard dealer visited the premises of a medical clinic , then got on the line to his dealer grumbling : " There 's nothing to it ! "
15 I 'm Major Paul Richmann , and you seem to have got on the wrong side of General Froebe somehow .
16 I think there 's only one post , and it 's in Jim 's office , where there are too many M S twos existing for the future M S two posts that , that , that we 've got on the document .
17 All the files that you 've got on the A drive .
18 Now what I 've actually also got on the photocopy , and I think I 've even got less sheets than than for this one I think I 've only got three booklets .
19 Which as I say I 've got on the photocopier at the minute , and er which want to look at
20 you had a a slate like you 've got on the roof , but it it was bound with a wooden frame .
21 I just went as I was and got on the first train I could find .
22 I do n't think this is the time to discuss what we 're going to do in the future , we 've actually got on the table at the moment a proposal to purchase that land .
23 If the hon. Gentleman 's attitude had been noted and acted on , we should not have got on the treadmill of nuclear arms escalation for the following 10 years .
24 The name I 've got on the manifest is for a Mr George Nixon .
25 ‘ You say this is what they 've got on the other side ? ’
26 Could anybody ring and tell us what she has got on the washing line .
27 The conventional style , gears , whether they 've been power or or manual , as develops erm more of the sort of business on those type applications , yeah , then basically it increases overall share and then it puts pressure on the business that we 've got on the other D group ball bearings .
28 How far have we got on the solar system Josephine ?
29 The timetable does n't appear to bear bear any resemblance to what er I 've got on the programme .
30 I 've got on the tape here a song which is by Manny Fryer he used to sing in Steel Ice Band er now I know that that 's sort of very old hat , I 'm sorry , but I sort of live in the past and er this er I I believe also that these days so that er you know I can sort of justify that but this is a song that er she has sung which er reminds us that each of us has the potential to commit the crime I 'll try not to play it fast forward , let's see how we go .
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