Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] the job of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | PIETER Muller read the messages of hate , shrugged and got on with the job of becoming one of the best centres in the world . |
| 3 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 7 | It was the House of Commons , and the Cabinet and the Prime Minister that came from the Commons , that Bagehot saw as the efficient working parts of the Constitution as these got on with the job of actually running the show . |
| 8 | In principle , they can fix their financial risks and get on with the job of dealing with the commercial ones . |
| 9 | A closed-doors meeting of the America supporters urged Koch to stop playing around with his crews and let Buddy Melges and the pros get on with the job of beating Conner . |
| 10 | They 've just let me and our coaches get on with the job of trying to get us out of the mess we were in , and still are in . |
| 11 | Find a good nanny and then help her get on with the job of looking after your children . |
| 12 | ‘ Can we cut the expert critical review and get on with the job of finding out where Jenny is ! ’ |
| 13 | As is normal in an installation for a review , I chose to accept the default ‘ complete ’ installation , that simply prompts you for your serial number ( and did n't accept the original V1.0 serial number that was already on the system ) and gets on with the job of copying everything over . |
| 14 | And if it was important , to us and the country , why in the world were n't we snuffing out all those niggling grievances and getting on with the job of winning ? |
| 15 | But we accept that there is not a customer for this work and we are getting on with the job of ensuring that the business as a whole continues to develop positively . |
| 16 | If offers a clear choice to the electorate and it results in one party with a mandate from the people getting on with the job of governing . |
| 17 | Koch resolutely stayed away from America 's wheel , letting Buddy Melges get on with the job of dispatching Conner . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , that makes sense , but if it means takin' the engine out and havin' engineers crawlin' all over the place so we ca n't get on with the job of takin' on stores and equipment — ’ |
| 19 | My advice to the Government is that they can not sort out the problem this side of a general election , so why not get on with the job of laying the long-term foundations for a successful economy ? |
| 20 | As the pressures mounted , Lenin was forced to admit that ‘ an unskilled labourer or a cook can not immediately get on with the job of state administration ’ and that only a few thousand workers throughout Russia had any experience of work in government . |
| 21 | Mrs. Mott had better get on with the job of cancelling them . |
| 22 | ‘ We have not got a lot of money and we have got to just get on with the job of trying to sort things out on the field . |
| 23 | AI workers are , by and large , naive materialists and mechanists , and for them those are not positions to be justified , but simply assumptions that allow them to get on with the job of constructing mechanical analogues or simulations of ourselves , who are , in Minsky 's memorable phrase , ‘ meat machines ’ . |
| 24 | it gives you more time to get on with the job of managing your business . |
| 25 | Ideology apart , managers have to get on with the job of managing , maintaining society as a going concern , and upholding organisational goals with the cooperation of other members . |
| 26 | He wanted to get on with the job of examining the clothes and , he hoped , identifying the body , but he had another job to do first — to call on the River Police and give them such facts as he had . |
| 27 | Will she send out a message to those who oppose smoking and belong to the brigade who say , ’ Do as I say and as I instruct you , ’ to the effect that they should leave ordinary people to get on with the job of smoking and supporting the economy ? |
| 28 | That is why we have ensured , through our know-how funds and all the other means at our disposal , that we are providing economic advice and sound advice for training members of the former republics to get on with the job of economic reform . |
| 29 | Mr Saville added : ‘ If they slap a CPO on the site , then it will be up to the councils to get on with the job of reclamation . |
| 30 | We have now to get on with the job of saving the plant . ’ |