Example sentences of "got on [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 But we had got on to a subject I do happen to know something about .
4 Over the last seven months , Lawrence has quietly got on with a rebuilding job at Ayresome Park .
5 ‘ You 'd both have got on like a house on fire .
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