Example sentences of "get on [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got on to dreams because Vern 's interested in them too . |
| 2 | Erm so Elizabeth got on to Aristocrats so what , what happened ? |
| 3 | Did n't you even got on to frogs and rabbits ? |
| 4 | She got on with children and dedicated herself to their wellbeing . |
| 5 | It feels to them that a major event has changed their lives and yet people around them seem to be wanting them to forget it and ‘ get on with things ’ as quickly as possible . |
| 6 | The manager and staff of the pub get on with things in the background , behind screens , during the service . |
| 7 | Then I acclimatise myself and just get on with things . |
| 8 | I find that I I I get on with coloureds anyway quite well . |
| 9 | to have something that indicates how the youngster gets on with others , I 'm sure that 's one of the general skills and ability . |
| 10 | She just gets on with things . |
| 11 | yeah , oh , well I think he still gets on with things . |
| 12 | Well actually I always think , Win always say that the W I runs itself because everyone gets on with things and they do n't need to be told and , and when it actually comes to it no nobody wants to become president or officer . . |
| 13 | The adverse effect is on animals and vegetation that had been quietly getting on without golfers . |
| 14 | One fellow worker said : ‘ He 's working very hard and getting on with things happily enough . ’ |
| 15 | Jarvis was an eccentric and in the opinion of many who knew him a very strange man , but he had a quiet way of getting on with things . |
| 16 | Just getting on with things . |
| 17 | Thank you for getting on with things so quickly . |
| 18 | During ( ii ) I am usually sitting at my desk , quietly getting on with things . |
| 19 | I mean it may well be we 'll say in year seven , look the things we 're looking for here and I want everybody to comment on is , A er , how well they 've settled down er how well they 're getting on with others but there 's no reason why you ca n't make those decisions . |
| 20 | Er , Stella , could you take us through how you 're getting on in terms of your forms and related documents . |
| 21 | Mrs Cartwright was getting on in years , shapeless as a stuffed pillow , hands and arms scarred with the shiny tissue of a myriad burns , and eyes seemingly closed against a lifetime of hissing steam . |
| 22 | Copland — was , at 44 , getting on in years for commando work , but as a works manager in civilian life he had the experience of technical organisation needed for such ventures . |
| 23 | As soon as he was out of uniform , Connor applied to take over the management of the public-house from his parents — Mam and Da were getting on in years , and Da was n't a well man — but the Brewery were not prepared to lease the pub to a bachelor . |
| 24 | Quite a number of the people you speak to will be getting on in years and have lost their sharpness of hearing . |
| 25 | Now that he was getting on in years he wanted to take things just that little bit easy , not see patient after patient , cramming in as many as possible , but space them out — eight , ten a day was enough — for with his practice so long established and his clientele so solid he could n't imagine any reason to fear blanks in his appointments book . |
| 26 | Getting on in years , he might well have considered the possibility of never seeing his homeland again . |
| 27 | I then er , we then broke away and went up to the er , I suppose it 's the , I do n't know what part of the , but it 's the Dales , that 's where I moved to then and then to because my dad could n't , getting on in years , he could n't take the hills up and then from I got married and we moved into this address here and then that was the day after war was declared that I got married . |
| 28 | She was getting on in years , and I was very fond of her . ’ |
| 29 | He was and because he was getting on in years and er did n't get out as much as usual , my husband said we 'd get a television for him and we had a black and white television |
| 30 | They 're still big , still noisy , but getting on in years and with a diminishing role thanks to the peace dividend . |