Example sentences of "get on the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It feels so good that you think you can get on the gas but the consequences are terrible .
2 Let us get on the road . ’
3 ‘ We must get on the road at once , ’ said Cameron , still diplomatic , while Menzies longed for a hot drink .
4 After all , this World Cup did not get on the road until two years before the event .
5 I know there 's an awful lot you can get on the road , but not not like it used to be .
6 Job-seekers in East Middlesbrough can get on the road to employment opportunities from Monday .
7 As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home
8 I 've got nearly over five hundred quid , then the petrol and then food where you could n't get food donated , and new tyres for the bike before I went so you could only get on the road .
9 Everyone 's so busy looking at it they 're not even bothering to try and get on the roundabout .
10 But they admit that these babies had not achieved complete and independent toileting as they could only hold on to their eliminations for a few minutes and needed help to undress and get on the potty .
11 Downstairs the Disco provided a large crowd with the sounds that made them get on the floor and bring a whole new ball game to the w world of the Barn Dance .
12 it might be — he was once again at the bench this weekend but did not get on the field this time .
13 She had learned to time it so as not to hear the tail end of the terrible Neighbours music which , no matter how much you hated it , was a tune you could easily get on the brain .
14 What he 's gon na get on the dole money , he 'll not drink too much .
15 You do n't get on the school bus . ’
16 The first thing I did was get on the phone to her .
17 It 's er Christmas I seen Fred , I have n't se er well , I know I 'm not gon na get on the phone to her , you know what it 's like with Gladys .
18 Erm the point I made to them , that everybody round that table , if they did have a problem that they thought was urgent , they should get on the phone to the , you know , Steve and
19 Well , you could get on the case of the Rocktron Utopia system , the first of which ( in the UK , anyway ) was gracing the Washburn stand at the British Music Fair and shortly afterwards took up temporary residence in the Guitarist studio .
20 Mr Heseltine was asked on LBC radio whether , if the Conservatives ended up the largest party with , say , 320 seats , Mr Major would not get on the telephone to do a deal to secure an overall majority .
21 Yet pupils can not get on the wavelength of the experience of others by bracketing out all aspects of their own .
22 We left here at half past eight and we did n't get on the dance floor till twenty to ten cos there was three
23 And it was quite quiet for a little bit because most of them had established themselves and we were waiting for a breakout and er we did n't get on the move again until the they went through the after it had been .
24 Reporters were expected , in the words of an American admiral , to ‘ get on the team ’ .
25 Oh you can not get on the chair with your boots you
26 ‘ I 'll see what value I can get on the street in town for these and I 'll leave you this bag on the basis that if I ca n't dispose of them , I 'll be back for it . ’
27 Only the senior librarian remained constant , Joyce Babcock , a contemporary of Helen 's , stuck as far as she would get on the ladder of professional advancement , suspicious of the girls but tolerant of Helen , who offered no threat .
28 He does n't get on the table !
29 No , no Aaron do n't get on the table
30 No a I 've got ta go , I 've got ta get on the training cos
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