Example sentences of "get on [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off . |
| 2 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 3 | Well George got on with a lot of people like that but of course , he was a Mason you see . |
| 4 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 5 | English-born , actually , and we got on like a house on fire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We got on like a house on fire . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was almost as small as the circle of names and acquaintances of the average senior civil servant , and was reduced further by the fact that once they had got on to a board , many businessmen rapidly came to resent the amount of time the job demanded . |
| 10 | Sitting in the dreary Independence Hotel in Tehran late at night , McFarlane fuming in his room , the rest of the party had got on to a conversation about radars . |
| 11 | But we had got on to a subject I do happen to know something about . |
| 12 | Over the last seven months , Lawrence has quietly got on with a rebuilding job at Ayresome Park . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'd both have got on like a house on fire . |
| 14 | Gooch 's men must accept their lot and get on with a job for which they are being paid around £20,000 a man . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's like you get on to a list , ’ he suggests with a smile . |
| 16 | The delicacy of the situation , with their parents and often their grandparents there and everything ( as in a thwarted erotic dream ) , would hardly explain the lack of visual stimulation ; and I get on like a house on fire with the girls in the officers ' bordello . |
| 17 | Selina and I get on like a house on fire . |
| 18 | We get on like a house on fire — now we no longer live together . |
| 19 | ‘ How 's she getting on without a farm manager ? ’ the old maltster asked the younger men . |
| 20 | So just turning away and getting on with a job is the most effective response . |
| 21 | The mother also agreed to place a small plate of Ben 's favourite food ( chunks of cheese and pieces of apple ) in front of him at meal-times but then not to watch him eat by getting on with a job in the kitchen . |
| 22 | Twenty-four hours after training , there was getting on for a sixty-per-cent increase in the numbers of spines to be found on the dendrites in the left IMHV ( but almost no effect in the right ) . |
| 23 | I smoked for twenty seven years , and erm I 'm getting on to a year now since I stopped smoking and I feel a lot calmer , I hated being a victim to cigarettes ! |
| 24 | Getting on to a YTS course had changed many young people 's lives . |
| 25 | If you are getting on to a diet which involves being very restricted for choice , and in some cases , missing out meals altogether , you are perfectly normal if you find it difficult to stick to this in the long term . |
| 26 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 27 | I could get on with a man like that . |
| 28 | ‘ When you needed an extra pair of hands in a hurry so that you could get on with a job , Roger was always the first to drop what he was doing and help you . ’ |
| 29 | Erm for another reasons , which we shall get on to a bit later , there may be a great deal of confusion , er memories may not be clear or well formed , um people , according to some theories and ideas , people may be under-reporting because um y'know it helps them maintain their eq equilibrium a bit better . |
| 30 | I want to leave by about ten tomorrow so I 'll get on to a garage first thing in the morning and hope they can fix my car straight away . ’ |