Example sentences of "get [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He seems so untrusting , so unwilling to let other people get on with things on their own . |
| 2 | Why ca n't they simply get on with things ? |
| 3 | I loved it too , because I could get on with things while he was bouncing . |
| 4 | Then he could jolly well get on with things — and came out into the passage . |
| 5 | I 'm not asking you to help me , but at least you can let me get on with things instead of badgering me the whole time . |
| 6 | ‘ Now let's get on with things . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you get on with women better than men , Bob ? ’ she asked . |
| 8 | So we stick to arguing about power within I say a party , and we do not get on about policies and programmes . |
| 9 | How did Nick get on at darts last night then ? |
| 10 | Rabbit fleas must get on to ferrets from time to time . |
| 11 | Colin said : ‘ Let's get on to spirits . |
| 12 | If a grown-up really wants to find out what it is like to live in a young person 's world , let him or her get down on hands and knees and go about like that for a week . |
| 13 | I mean , you do n't get down to things and then break off for refreshments , do you ? ’ |
| 14 | Let's get down to details , shall we ? ’ |
| 15 | The sergeant — his pace blackened with boot polish — assured me , ‘ You 'll get through at Clones . ’ |
| 16 | Even then , if at all possible , he should get up for meals . |
| 17 | ‘ As soon as my leg is better I 'll get back to things as before ’ |
| 18 | Let's get back to basics . |
| 19 | Let's get back to courts just for a moment . |
| 20 | But let's get back to police work . |
| 21 | Good old Harry : let's get back to facts . |
| 22 | Ian Wright extended that lead on eighty one minutes , but Derby did get back into things with an effort from Gary Micklewhite . |
| 23 | From a personal point of view I think that charity , charitable giving by er companies whether big or small should be erm should be erm on that basis I mean they should n't be looking for acknowledgement but unfortunately in the real world companies are looking to see what we can get back in terms of the investment they make and |
| 24 | Yeah he got trapped in a car park and he could n't get out for ages and ages and then as he got out he crashed into another car . |
| 25 | There is a popular cliche , usually uttered in the tones Stephen Potter would have called " plonking " , which says that you can not get out of computers any more than you put in . |
| 26 | Mary Worty had a habit of getting drunk and then getting into fights and her face was criss-crossed with cuts and she would get in the window of her bedroom , start giving the history of people all the way down and then they 'd all get out in crowds . |
| 27 | While deprecating such tactics as not being in the spirit of scientific inquiry , nevertheless Johanson and others do quickly get around to innuendos about Kalb 's sources of finance . |
| 28 | We were housed in the usual huts , but being this time in the centre of a town , we had paved paths all around us and shaded lights to help us get about at nights , and not having to go out at night to read instruments was a welcome change . |