Example sentences of "get [adv] [prep] it [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from asking me if it might be ‘ right lip ’ or ‘ left edge ’ he just got on with it himself . |
| 2 | For some years a man used to come in and do the deed , but Uncle got on with it himself later round by the stable , using a humane killer . |
| 3 | As regards to homework , I just got on with it myself or did n't do it at all . ’ |
| 4 | And I gave up er nagging him , I just got on with it myself . |
| 5 | Erm so whether she has n't got round to it I do n't know . |
| 6 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 7 | come on , right time is nearly twenty past , now sit down and get on with it what ? there are come on Deana you get on you 're |
| 8 | This is how it 's done get on with it I 'm going now ! |
| 9 | ‘ Get on with it you black bastard . |
| 10 | This is what I think , not just hiding away and saying get on with it you know get on with whatever you want to do , no this is what I believe is what I believe that we 're doing . |
| 11 | It could be ‘ neo-Stalinism ’ ( refusing to say Russia was a capitalist country ) ; ‘ Pabloite revisionism ’ ( deciding to join the Labour Party secretly ) ; ‘ tailism ’ ( waiting for trade unions to organize strikes rather than getting on with it yourself ) ; ‘ liquidationism ’ ( dissolving the sect into a larger movement , hoping that its ideas will catch on ) ; ‘ parliamentary cretinism ’ ( advising people to vote Labour ) ; ‘ stageism ’ ( not demanding everything at once ) ; or even ‘ centreism ’ ( expressing a liking for Tony Benn ) . |
| 12 | How the Rev Bain gets away with it I do n't know . |
| 13 | ‘ And if he 's thinking he 'll be getting away with it he can think again ! |
| 14 | Do n't know we get away with it they want the whole lot bloody scrapping and the new lot all the rust ones , there 's hardly one decent is there ? |
| 15 | Ah what she gets out of it I just do n't know . |
| 16 | I mean I think it 's wor as far as I 'm concerned I 'm g w I think we 're all getting out of it what we want |
| 17 | Yeah we 're getting out of it what we want . |
| 18 | There was never my my view and and one day I shall if I ever get round to it I might set this all out . |
| 19 | Jarvis thought he had better get on with it himself because anyone Tina found would very likely default on the rent . |
| 20 | Cos once he 's got going he can get on with it himself then . |
| 21 | So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 22 | Tomorrow she really must settle down to serious work on her novel ; time was slipping past , her deadline was approaching and if she did n't get on with it she 'd have Joe making agitated phone calls and coming down to visit . |
| 23 | but then again I 'd rather just let them get on with it I 'm not trying to convert you to the better way of doing things , cos obviously I do n't know a whether there 's |
| 24 | Well let's get on with it you 've got one of them . |
| 25 | You see a working , well of course they do get them up nowadays , but in th you were supposed t to stay in bed for at least a fortnight after the mother was born but you a lot of these mothers used to hop out of bed when the midwife had gone , and , and I mean if they 'd got two or three children and a husband coming in and they had n't got a mother or a neighbour or somebody to come in and do the cooking , i I mean she 'd just get up and get on with it herself . |
| 26 | but erm , you know , I remember as coming across one or two obstacles and I could n't get in to it I thought if I 'd tried a bit harder , I did n't want to start you know so |
| 27 | The battledress trousers were inclined to go baggy and the uniform jacket was a bit severe , so whenever we could get away with it we wore the other two items , and tended to let our hair float over our collars — also banned . |
| 28 | There was a sense of immaturity in our society , an admiration of the crook , the kind of cock-eyed notion that if someone could get away with it he was a Robin Hood type who could somehow feather his own nest and at the same time feather theirs . |
| 29 | But if he thought he could get away with it he could think again ! |
| 30 | Assertion you 're clear about what you want , you ca n't there 's no need to get get up about it there 's no need to worry about it this is what you want and this is the way it is , you do n't have to shout , you just have to stick to your point . |