Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I got on all right with him . |
2 | He did n't have much finesse to do the things but erm and I think he used to sh he although I I got on all right with him , but some of the people working on the floor like the wardrobe people and that he used to they used to dislike him because he was but I would but you do find s I think perhaps he was a bit unsure of himself because I do n't think he was somebody who 'd had a had a tremendous education , otherwise he probably would n't have gone in on the on the construction side which was being a chippy or something at Shepherds Bush and so you know you often find people like that they have a bit of a chip on their shoulders do n't they you know , you know . |
3 | I gets on all right with him but I do n't like him . |
4 | Your folks know me , I get on all right with them , your mum 's real hoot , I always giggle with your mum , she thinks life 's a laugh . |
5 | The government 's Chief Medical Officer , Dr Henry Yellowlees , was the son of a distinguished psychiatrist , whom I had on more than one occasion retained as an adviser in private practice . |
6 | Most of them came on all right in the end . |
7 | The only scope for progress was to find harder abrasives , devise more effective tools for applying them and not least to be prepared to invest more time , something which depended on more powerful patronage . |
8 | The result was a program called Lex-11 , which runs on both the PDP-11 computer and a number of 16-bit microcomputers . |
9 | ‘ You got on all right with him , did n't you ? ’ said Simon . |
10 | As SSC has only consultative , not decision-making status , this means that a recommendation will go to F&S not from SSC as a whole but from the Board members who sit on both SSC and F&S , and . |
11 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
12 | Have n't you caught on yet ? " |
13 | When she 'd finished it she moved on more slowly this time , stopping twice for a fit of coughing . |
14 | Paradoxically , the highly–skilled performer , because he or she depends on finely tuned allocation of his or her attention to avoid having to think carefully about every minor detail may be likely to make a slip . |
15 | ‘ You going on all right , girl ? ’ enquired Mrs Yaxlee who , though she did not commune with nature , was nevertheless comradely with it . |
16 | Tolkien was trying , then , to make Shakespeare more positive — a bold venture , but based on a clear insight itself based on very minute reading . |
17 | But the temptation of a listening ear seemed to overcome her scruples and she went on more furtively : |
18 | Her voice faltered for a moment , then she went on more strongly , ‘ Elise died in an accident . |
19 | ‘ The truth is that she envies me , ’ she went on more calmly . |
20 | ‘ There used to be this old-fashioned clothes shop on the Corso , ’ she went on more quietly . |
21 | But she also saw something in Shelley 's face , and she went on more quietly , ‘ OK , OK , tell me when you want to — if you want to . |
22 | Do you get on all right with the teachers ? |
23 | As with record royalties , those songwriters who sign on less advantageous terms are sometimes successful in securing increases throughout each new year of the agreement . |
24 | Hello , good afternoon erm I 'm just ringing in response to the previous caller you had on actually . |
25 | Yeah , all right , but you work on that right ? |
26 | The light , fragile voice which is n't that dissimilar to the one showcased on more acoustic numbers might suggest shyness , but you can never predict what she 's going to say next . |
27 | We simply could not build , nor afford to build enough reservoirs to replace the aquifers we depend on today . |
28 | Over the long term , income tax has moved from being a tax paid only by the rich to one levied on quite poor people . |
29 | We get on all right . " |
30 | We get on all right now . ’ |