Example sentences of "get [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 2 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |
| 3 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 4 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
| 5 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 6 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
| 7 | She went , and I got on with the life of Ellen Parkin , about to emerge from her chrysalis , to spread her wings as Eleanor Darcy . |
| 8 | As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings . |
| 9 | PIETER Muller read the messages of hate , shrugged and got on with the job of becoming one of the best centres in the world . |
| 10 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 11 | Without his bad-tempered dad , Rab C. Nesbitt , to annoy him , Wee Burney got on with the job of handing a trophy and a Cash Club Account containing £10 to young Heather Stobbs . |
| 12 | Who broke into your house in the middle of the night and , after paying the usual compliments to your stereo , got on with the job of pouring scorn on your most cherished convictions ? |
| 13 | But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand . |
| 14 | Having blown his lunch , he then strolled back on set and got on with the matter in hand . |
| 15 | Everyone got on with the business at hand , preoccupied with the problems of food shortages , lack of funds and compliance with the rules of the Islamic order . |
| 16 | I have to say that if some of those born again modernizers had supported us then , we could have settled these issues long ago , and got on with the business of winning elections , which I thought was what party politics was about . |
| 17 | Schools got on with the business of education . |
| 18 | Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character . |
| 19 | The giant brick structures were laid during the earliest days of the industrial revolution in Manchester , several decades before London got down to the task of comprehensive sanitation for its citizens . |
| 20 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 21 | After the home club and Southend took the top places , Colchester Joggers got in on the act with the team bronze , a first for the club over this distance . |
| 22 | By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes . |
| 23 | Stephen Pullan and Iain Pyman both gave further evidence of the strength of Sand Moor by upstaging clubmate Cage with 68s , while Stephen Burnell ( Brickendon Grange ) and Stoneham 's Alan Mew got in on the act by matching the exacting par of 69 . |
| 24 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 25 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 26 | Another Darlington student , Gillian Elders , 19 , got through to the final in the kitchen design section but was unplaced . |
| 27 | Taking care not to swing the basket , she got off outside the gate of St Michael-in-the-Moor and walked across the green . |
| 28 | How had he got on to the subject of Yasser Arafat ? |
| 29 | Why had he got on to the subject of Yasser Arafat ? |
| 30 | When Toby had gone , the headmaster got on to the organizer of the Championships . |