Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | ‘ I got on with the work , tried very hard to stay jovial , and kept a smiling face . |
| 33 | Deliberately she pushed the letter to the bottom of the pile , to save it for later while she got on with the work which awaited . |
| 34 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’ |
| 37 | But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand . |
| 38 | In the end , of course , we all pulled our socks up and got on with the job . |
| 39 | He got on with the job . |
| 40 | And Graham acknowledged : ‘ He accepted what was said , and got on with the job . |
| 41 | PIETER Muller read the messages of hate , shrugged and got on with the job of becoming one of the best centres in the world . |
| 42 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 43 | In the old days we got on with the job , jollied staff along if they needed it , kicked the sluggards in the backside , encouraged the unconfident and persuaded a reluctant and sceptical police force to use us . |
| 44 | Things happened , one heard stories , but overall you got on with the job . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Watching Silas , the answer evaded her because his face remained expressionless , so she pushed the question away from her and got on with the job . |
| 47 | 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 ? |
| 48 | The Hercules has been there with the RAF and got on with the job . |
| 49 | They just got on with the job . |
| 50 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 51 | Throughout this time , prison staff and managers passed the various ‘ crisis ’ totals , got on with the task , absorbed everyone sent to them by the courts and , somehow , despite a crumbling prison estate , avoided total chaos . |
| 52 | Having blown his lunch , he then strolled back on set and got on with the matter in hand . |
| 53 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 54 | He loved his home in Ireland and got on with the people . |
| 55 | The factory which was in Leith had what would now he called a creche where the children could it and play and he looked after whilst the mothers got on with the ground sheets … and the war . |
| 56 | Everyone got on with the business at hand , preoccupied with the problems of food shortages , lack of funds and compliance with the rules of the Islamic order . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Schools got on with the business of education . |
| 59 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 60 | I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out . |