Example sentences of "got on " in BNC.
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| 1 | John and I got on — and I was happy to join in with the general ‘ Sarah 's being difficult ’ refrain . |
| 2 | You can tell me how you got on today and I can start making some enquiries . ’ |
| 3 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 4 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 5 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 6 | And I got on at 50-1 immediately after that race , and had a fair bet . |
| 7 | I got on and did my job , ’ he said . |
| 8 | At dinner the undergraduate in his second year got on well with the ex-prime minister , which is a mark up to both sides . |
| 9 | As he got on , and less nervous , the words came easily ; and then he began to dislike being restricted by a written text and to prefer headings . |
| 10 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 11 | I got on quite well with Steve around that time You hungry ? he said one day Come on then I 'll treat you . |
| 12 | Maybe that very quickly he started coming up with lyrics and that he and I got on well right from the off , Well , not quite from the off . |
| 13 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 14 | But Phoebe had felt a harsh jealousy that she did not like in herself when she realised how well Lisa and Rachel got on : she did not want that . |
| 15 | Maggie got on well and he was calmly nice to Rachel . |
| 16 | He and Tony got on well : they started arguing over whether it was better to have two bits of black pudding rather than two sausages in the terminal café , and when that battle was over they started another about who was going to have the window seat on the plane . |
| 17 | Love was between a man and a woman , love was for marriage , and each would have died before admitting to anything more than they ‘ got on well ’ together . |
| 18 | Cogley was a nice quiet chap and they got on very well together . |
| 19 | ‘ It really is time he got on with running his own business and let us run ours . |
| 20 | Saw another social worker who got on to housing . |
| 21 | Bloom got on to me and said he had received a letter from this young . |
| 22 | During that period , I spent a lot of time with Calvin Mark Lee , basically because he was Lou Reisner 's assistant , and he and I got on really well . |
| 23 | David asked if I could jive and at this particular time I always dressed as a man , which was probably another reason Calvin and I got along very well because Calvin wore velvet suits and I wore velvet suits — so that was one area we got on very well . |
| 24 | Angie Bowie : ‘ Mary an I got on really well — we had a hoot and always enjoyed each other 's company , and although the Arts Lab was still running , it was beginning to get out of hand . |
| 25 | Angie was very loud at the time and being really crazy , so we all got on famously . |
| 26 | We got on very well and from there came the start of MainMan . |
| 27 | Though he denounced the American-led initiative to establish protected enclaves in the north as an infringement of Iraq 's sovereignty , he did not intervene as western soldiers got on with what is indeed a mighty infringement . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They got on with their lives , did n't interfere , knew nothing of human quarrels , obeyed natural laws without any chicanery . |
| 30 | He and Christopher got on well , and Jane heaved an inward sigh of relief . |