Example sentences of "get [adv prt] with the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | PIETER Muller read the messages of hate , shrugged and got on with the job of becoming one of the best centres in the world . |
| 5 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Schools got on with the business of education . |
| 10 | It was the House of Commons , and the Cabinet and the Prime Minister that came from the Commons , that Bagehot saw as the efficient working parts of the Constitution as these got on with the job of actually running the show . |
| 11 | There are plenty of ‘ success stories ’ where governments have not intervened , or where it has not even been acknowledged that farmers and pastoralists have quietly got on with the business of conservation for themselves , and frequently provided sustainable surpluses for the market as well . |
| 12 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
| 13 | And I got up with the intention of diving off the second one and I went no ! |
| 14 | Finally , the back bones , who tackle the problems and get on with the work of solving them . |
| 15 | In this sort of book you may well find that the pattern of how-will-he-get-out-of-this is more convenient to use while underneath you get on with the purpose of your story . |
| 16 | In principle , they can fix their financial risks and get on with the job of dealing with the commercial ones . |
| 17 | A closed-doors meeting of the America supporters urged Koch to stop playing around with his crews and let Buddy Melges and the pros get on with the job of beating Conner . |
| 18 | They 've just let me and our coaches get on with the job of trying to get us out of the mess we were in , and still are in . |
| 19 | Find a good nanny and then help her get on with the job of looking after your children . |
| 20 | ‘ Can we cut the expert critical review and get on with the job of finding out where Jenny is ! ’ |
| 21 | Governor Wilson ordered withdrawal of the last National Guard units on May 18 , declaring that it was " time to bring the troops home and get on with the task of rebuilding Los Angeles " . |
| 22 | The final sections of ‘ Van Gogh ’ are particularly masterly : as the painter painfully dies in the little village inn , his friends lament his passing for a moment and then get on with the business of the day — shopping , washing clothes , preparing for work . |
| 23 | The only way to handle excuses is to treat them for what they are and get on with the business of collecting your money . |
| 24 | ‘ Let us be done with the arguments of participant observation versus interviewing — as we have largely dispensed with the arguments for psychology versus sociology — and get on with the business of attacking our problems with the widest array of conceptual and methodological tools that we possess and they demand ’ . |
| 25 | Why , therefore , did congress not get on with the business of removing a patently guilty president ? |
| 26 | Reacting to the killings , the Nobel Peace Prize winner , Desmond Tutu , the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town , said it demonstrated it was time for all South Africa 's politicians ‘ for goodness sake to get off your butts and get on with the business of getting a new constitution for this country . |
| 27 | As is normal in an installation for a review , I chose to accept the default ‘ complete ’ installation , that simply prompts you for your serial number ( and did n't accept the original V1.0 serial number that was already on the system ) and gets on with the job of copying everything over . |
| 28 | After all , the weather does not normally stop you getting to work , playing golf , or getting on with the rest of your life . |
| 29 | So how are you getting on with the rest of your course ? |
| 30 | For the two women , Bumface 's dismissal merited no more than perfunctory laughter and a slight impatience with Charles for not getting on with the business of bottle opening . |