Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on [adv] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
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 . ’
  Next page