Example sentences of "got [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 2 | The talk got on to quantum , eerie |
| 3 | Saw another social worker who got on to housing . |
| 4 | I 'm quite pleased with how I got on at work today with the amount of work I 'd done that |
| 5 | She never got on with Dad , he was too sublime . |
| 6 | ‘ What are you going to do today ? ’ he enquired , joining her at the table as without further ceremony they got on with breakfast . |
| 7 | He just got on with expansion . ’ |
| 8 | For a couple of days I got on with life 's rich pageant without thinking any more of Jo or her bloody credit cards . |
| 9 | If either or both of her sons had decamped to the West , she 'd have shrugged her shoulders and got on with existence . |
| 10 | They both convey information from which the hearer could work out how well B got on with semantics that week . |
| 11 | The men worked hard and as you got on in life you just thought this was home , although you had n't the luxuries . |
| 12 | But it was also because Britain , as a heavily industrialised nation , got little in return from Brussels under CAP payments . |
| 13 | When he got down to Punctuality and Considerateness as a Driver , he decided to give up and improvise . |
| 14 | Once you got down to Question 11 , the questioner would get a deeply unhelpful written response which would , if the civil servants knew their business , leave no one any the wiser . |
| 15 | On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work . |
| 16 | Two minutes later , after Paul had threatened the loss of the contract , he had picked up his brush again and , grumbling , got down to work . |
| 17 | She pulled a fresh pile of paper from her desk drawer , sharpened her pencil and got down to work . |
| 18 | The timing of the Bayeux speech — after the popular rejection of the first assembly 's draft and before a second assembly got down to work — suggests strongly that de Gaulle made it with the aim of influencing the constitution-making process . |
| 19 | It was when Trudie Sheppard retired that she really got down to work . |
| 20 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 21 | We got down to number tend and they were all one liners . |
| 22 | If all the do-gooders in the town got down to grass roots and worked towards a better future for the next generation , this town would be a better one to live in . |
| 23 | Nor did the cheering cease when the runners got down to business and the three-mile race commenced , for at almost every fence Arkle and Mill House produced leaps which drew from the spectators whoops of appreciation . |
| 24 | After the usual social exchanges we got down to business explaining the range of counselling that we could give and the various reasons why we thought it was important to ‘ talk about it ’ . |
| 25 | It had n't taken Sister Anne long to discover how intelligent Topaz was and , as the former was a born teacher , she forgot all about the gold earrings and the unseemly deportment and got down to business . |
| 26 | After the obligatory preamble on the weather he got down to business . |
| 27 | That would be a very good thing , she shouted back , but her inner self did n't agree and , muttering under her breath at her unruly self , she pushed unanswerable questions to the back of her mind and got down to business . |
| 28 | Legging it , they got down behind cover just as the last second ran out . |
| 29 | John got down in front of Dad and looked up into his face and said , ‘ It 's our flight . ’ |
| 30 | RISING reggae star Apache Indian got in on Prince 's act at a glitzy fashion launch for Joe Bloggs ' latest coup — a range of stagewear commissioned by the pop idol for his recent world tour . |