Example sentences of "get [adv prt] with [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were sent upstairs to address envelopes as ‘ the girls ’ ‘ , she recalls , ‘ while Clive got on with the serious business of deciding about the paper . |
| 2 | Gone are the days when professionals left the business of fees , commissions , variation charges , reimbursables and the rest to underlings whilst they got on with the interesting work . |
| 3 | Uncle Titch just shrugged and got on with the important things in life . |
| 4 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 5 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
| 6 | He will do if he gets it into his head but he got in trouble you see , got in with the wrong crowd and |
| 7 | he was going round going oh my God I got off with a real dog . |
| 8 | I asked him why he had n't got on with the other passengers . |
| 9 | Carrie got up with a deep sigh . |
| 10 | And instead of rolling over and playing dead as the script demanded , the amateurs got up with a cheerful smile , went to their polling booth and ad-libbed . |
| 11 | Ladies and gentlemen , we just before we get on with the second part of the meeting when erm , meeting erm I think I ought to tell you that erm one of our committee members died a very short while back . |
| 12 | Similarly there seem to be many cultures in tropical countries where the women get on with the necessary work while the men sit around discussing matters . |
| 13 | If your debtor wo n't see you or is not available whenever you call , you can draw your own conclusions and similarly get on with the necessary action . |
| 14 | This will involve tone as much as doctrine , but he would be as ill-advised to go on about the Government 's intention of building a classless society , which it ca n't build anyway , as to adopt the easy belief that the climate of opinion can be left to look after itself while ministers get on with the practical business of government . |
| 15 | See how you get on with the following questions : if you answer " yes ' to one or more , then we have some further work to do in this area ! |
| 16 | get on with the bloody game ! |
| 17 | Get on with the real issues . |
| 18 | While Robinson develops his remarkable rapport with the crowd , the rest of the band take a back-seat , and simply get on with the important business of shaking their flowing locks , sporting massive Stetsons and playing their gee-tars ( man ) . |
| 19 | On Siporax , it is claimed , the bacteria have no need of this and get on with the important job . |
| 20 | S4 Many sit Standard Grade on the way to Higher and the ablest by-pass , getting on with the Higher Course . |
| 21 | of getting on with the five years plans they 've put too much effort into producing war machines ! |
| 22 | From a family of fish merchants , he has served on Billingsgate committees and all but despairs of ‘ them ever getting on with the real business of selling fish ’ . |
| 23 | OK , by now you 've lost valuable time and probably irritated the entire panel by dithering instead of being sure of what you 're going to say , quite apart from getting on with the actual pieces you have learned . |
| 24 | There was just time for England and Australia to fit in the final Test before getting on with the serious business — serious to those for whom dollar signs are important — of dashing round the country playing game after game after game of the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup . |
| 25 | How are you getting on with the old battleaxe ? ’ |
| 26 | They 're occupying themselves writing out an account of their movements since Lorrimer was last seen alive and the local force are getting on with the preliminary checking of alibis . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't you think that if after seven hundred years of London government , you ca n't do better than this , you ought to leave Ireland to govern itself , and get out with the best grace you may ? ’ |
| 28 | Environmentalists have complained that in contrast to road-building programmes , for example , no attempt has been made to assess the cost of intangible environmental losses to the community , as against financial benefits to the farmer ; that calculations of benefit have assumed unrealistic yields and excessively speedy rates of take-up by farmers ; that there is a reluctance to design low-level flood protection , even when farmers are getting by with an arable crop in most years ; that the inevitable patching of eroding banks as a river reacts to the engineering constraints put upon it is never allowed for in the costs ; and that the benefits anticipated from a drainage schemes are based on what are known as ‘ farm-gate prices ’ received by farmers for their crops . |
| 29 | Gloucester almost got back with a late charge … |
| 30 | He got out with a fractured skull — but had a mental blackout and forgot his beautiful wife Kathy had been sitting beside him . |