Example sentences of "[modal v] be get on " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ca n't go on paying ourselves that sort of money , we ca n't go on , and Mr I know in a minute we 'll talk about the number of people who attend committee meetings erm and sit in on them , and that 's increased considerably , erm , so I think it 's important that we do get down to this problem , we grasp the nettle , and I , I believe that will mean that we start to look seriously at reducing the number of times members come and talk here , and perhaps we let the officers get on with the action that they should be getting on with |
| 2 | He must be getting on for seventy , and we need a younger head groom . ’ |
| 3 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 4 | How , he wondered , did one set about finding a woman , last heard of in Cornwall , whose surname was Carrow — that is , if she had n't remarried — and a child who he supposed must be getting on for four . |
| 5 | ‘ Ooh , well , let's see now , I s'pose it must be getting on for six weeks , now , ’ Cyril said . |
| 6 | ‘ No , well , ’ looking at her watch , ‘ I must be getting on . |
| 7 | No I bet the lass must be getting on now . |
| 8 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 9 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 10 | But he must n't forget that it was a great occasion for old Willis , who must be getting on for sixty-live , ready to take the knock any day now . |
| 11 | And you must be getting on with your exciting adventures . |
| 12 | Dave Watson ( Everton ) ? — Doubt He 'd leave , Must be getting on . |
| 13 | I ca n't believe Mel is the player he was two years ago and he must be getting on a bit now , but we have still got Ray Wallace just incase I s'pose . |
| 14 | Her dad must be getting on for seventy she looks as though |
| 15 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 16 | I 'll be getting on , I think . |
| 17 | So you wo n't have to shuffle the chops or the toast , when you could be getting on with the vegetables . |
| 18 | Cos a boy in standard five could be getting on for thirteen . |
| 19 | well he said the house is going up for sale , I think he thinks I 'll be patient in that direction , it 's not that , it 's just that if it was a nice house , a normal house where the kids can play out on a nice day and just hang the washing out , I could be getting on with it |
| 20 | He 'd be talking to some man all evening , they 'd be getting on very well indeed as far as we could all see , but then Miss P would still be there alone when the lights went on , and the man would have gone . |
| 21 | I may be getting on now , |
| 22 | The others may be getting on with something else , then another six likewise . |
| 23 | By the time they had got the room cleared up and were ready to go out it would be getting on for twelve . |
| 24 | He would go to Buxton , probably , for the waters and her boys would be getting on well at Belvedere . |
| 25 | NOW THAT Lord Cholmondeley has sold the Holbein to the National Gallery , he will be getting on with his film career , I am told . |
| 26 | Quite a number of the people you speak to will be getting on in years and have lost their sharpness of hearing . |
| 27 | Mahmoud will be getting on with it anyway . |
| 28 | But I will be getting on to these regulations now . |
| 29 | The most important job for Mr Hallman will be to get on with his chairman , Mr Gates . |