Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And Graham acknowledged : ‘ He accepted what was said , and got on with the job . |
| 32 | PIETER Muller read the messages of hate , shrugged and got on with the job of becoming one of the best centres in the world . |
| 33 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Things happened , one heard stories , but overall you got on with the job . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 ? |
| 39 | The Hercules has been there with the RAF and got on with the job . |
| 40 | They just got on with the job . |
| 41 | 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 ? |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Having blown his lunch , he then strolled back on set and got on with the matter in hand . |
| 44 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 45 | He loved his home in Ireland and got on with the people . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Schools got on with the business of education . |
| 50 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | English-born , actually , and we got on like a house on fire . |
| 53 | They got on like a house on fire and did n't stop talking afterwards — it was Julian and Robert who wound each other up . |
| 54 | We got on like a house on fire . |
| 55 | Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe . |
| 56 | On the contrary , it was precisely the excessive femininity , laid on with a trowel as it were , that created the effect of someone pretending to be a woman , someone in fact rather desperately hoping to be taken for one . |
| 57 | The good thing about cruises is that you always have the ship 's staff to help you if you have a problem and there are always guided tours laid on at every port of call . |
| 58 | This is of flannel : the round part is plaited up to form the front , and a quilling of the bordering put on , a band of the same laid on at the back , and strings . ’ |
| 59 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 60 | We live on the fourth floor of one building , in what , by Chinese standards , are luxurious conditions : we each have our own bedroom , living room , and bathroom , with drinking water , cigarettes , and thermos flasks of hot water ( for making Chinese tea ) laid on in the living room . |