Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | All the strained confusions of the night are over , all the sleepless impatience to get on with the job . |
| 6 | He was shaken , slightly concussed and in no state to carry on with the show . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Now it 's time to get on with the job . ’ |