Example sentences of "get [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is essential to stress that although Philip 's dedication to Richard became intense , it was part of a larger compulsion which preceded and succeeded Richard — to help young people get out and get on through education . |
| 2 | And get on with th'work . |
| 3 | Repeatedly , he says that to brush a vicious old woman aside like a swatted fly and get on with life is to prove oneself a Napoleon — not Napoleon himself who lost whole armies and forgot about them , but a Napoleon . |
| 4 | We get on with life and take pleasure in things whether she 's ill or not . |
| 5 | I 'll have to try to forget about Anne and get on with life — but it will be hard . ’ |
| 6 | Children who have had happy , loving and stable early experiences will when hurt simply weep for a while to relieve the hurt , then get on with life . |
| 7 | Her instincts told her that if she was to survive in the world of industry and commerce she had to push the past to one side , and get on with life . |
| 8 | They get on with it and they get on with life in the colleges and life may not be wonderful but they deal with it , and in some senses they are exercising what power they have , but what they get fed up with is constantly having to exercise it . |
| 9 | According to hearsay , Bez had managed to break his arm — twice ; Shaun was there in body but his head was elsewhere ; and there were persistent rumours of rifts between the pair and the rest of the band , who just wanted to get their heads down and get on with work rather than get on one . |
| 10 | SO GET ON WITH IT ! |
| 11 | To everyone else on the list , I 'd ask that we ignore this provocation and get on with business as usual . |
| 12 | In some cultures the mourning period is very clearly established with a beginning phase where the bereaved will be looked after by their families ; and there is an equally important ending phase when the person is expected to stop grieving and get on with living . |
| 13 | However , people do not usually live in a state of high intellectual awareness about their every action , but simply get on with living . |
| 14 | He is first and foremost a brilliant engineer and he is happy to be free to concentrate on research and development while I get on with marketing . ’ |
| 15 | If you are trying to go high , get on to oxygen and check it is flowing correctly before you need it . |
| 16 | Sue : How will people get on to Community Action ? |
| 17 | You get on into bed now . ’ |
| 18 | I mean once you get er in the , say you get on in grain and you got leather shoes on , well you 'd roll but th when you got , when you got rope , these rope soles , cos they used to grip on the grain , they would n't slip about . |
| 19 | ‘ Get down on deck and have the machine guns uncovered and lay down support fire . ’ |
| 20 | When are the teachers going to stop being political animals and get down to teaching rather than try to score points off the Government ? |
| 21 | Sleep , wake , cook , eat , go in , switch on light , examine prisoner , get down to work , finish work , write up notebook , sleep , wake , cook , eat . |
| 22 | ‘ Evelyn , get down to work . ’ |
| 23 | Get down to work , she told herself . |
| 24 | It was only once she was sure that Emily was asleep that she would pull out her plastic bag and get down to work . |
| 25 | You get ‘ funny ’ results for the first couple of weeks … lets hope that we learn lessons , and get down to work . |
| 26 | Initially girls would waste a lot of time being polite to one another rather than getting things done : too polite to choose a chief and get down to work . |
| 27 | It will be different when we get down to League games . |
| 28 | He gave me an ultimatum : either get down to training properly or we part company . |
| 29 | But , when they get down to business with the British , it is at least certain that they will not be as difficult as Mr Haughey 's government was . |
| 30 | The girls can walk their legs off in Sherwood Forest while you and I , Luke , get down to business , then we 'll join them later . ’ |