Example sentences of "[was/were] get on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was asking , Preston , how you were getting on with the Devil . ’ |
| 2 | We do not send you copies of every letter we write , minutes of every meeting we attend , etc because we assumed you would realise we were getting on with the job . |
| 3 | Maureen was getting on to the museum about bringing an expert to have a look at the place . ’ |
| 4 | Occasionally Group Captain Bennett would poke his nose in to make sure everyone was getting on with the job and not larking about . |
| 5 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 6 | Owen asked how John Postlethwaite was getting on in the ministry . |
| 7 | My task , apart from the usual household chores , was to get on with the work for my three summer O-levels and to get ahead by starting to work towards my A-levels — English , Latin and Greek . |
| 8 | As he saw it , the job of the Church was to get on with the task of proclaiming the gospel and ministering the sacraments . |