Example sentences of "to get [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Temptation is to get on to the phone immediately |
| 2 | If they already have some practical knowledge they will be itching to get on to the floor ! |
| 3 | In fact , however , the Council 's composition was not random , as two kinds of evidence show : evidence for the high social class of individual members , and evidence that it was possible to get on to the Council in a given year if you wanted to . |
| 4 | ‘ Thanks , David , but I 've bent the rules enough ; I really ought to get on to the village and see to this wretched food distribution . |
| 5 | And then I used to get on to the dray and sit beside him on the box and then we 'd go as far as Road , which is quite a stretch and I used o walk back . |
| 6 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 7 | It was possible to get on to the roof by the window and climb up the slope to the wall and the projecting archway . |
| 8 | We staged with the Sultan of Oman and Muscat , and Salalah , and I can recall one evening a hit of a commotion , when one of the Wapiti crews of No 55 Squadron caused an uproar by trying to get on to the roof . |
| 9 | Talking of your first P-bass , what originally inspired you to get on to the instrument ? |
| 10 | To get on to the housing ladder , the first-time buyer has to find a deposit of 5% or more of the property price , and with a typical housing price/income ratio of three times , this can represent 15% or more of annual income . |
| 11 | Low house prices here mean that even though Northern Ireland is bottom of the UK salary league with an annual average of £15,012 , people can still afford to get on to the housing ladder . |
| 12 | I wanted a second mate 's ticket ; I wanted to get on to the bridge and do things . |
| 13 | how to get on to the parish council the other day so I thought was quite formative step yes |
| 14 | ‘ It could be that it 's just something that Bob is allergic to , but it had better be investigated and some sample testing done in case we need to get on to the manufacturers . |
| 15 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 16 | It was as though they were marching up great soaring bridges to get on to the screen , where they would enter into the films we had come to see . |
| 17 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 18 | By doing this the work of the council is expedited and the officers of the council are able to get on with the instructions of the committee without waiting for confirmation by the council of the decisions of the committee . |
| 19 | You could leave them behind so much more easily , to get on with the present , if you knew that some day you were going to return . |
| 20 | I just could n't wait to get on with the athletics . |
| 21 | Robert Davies , signal works engineer : ‘ failed completely to get on with the testing instruction ’ . |
| 22 | They saw themselves as wanting to get on with the teaching of their subject . |
| 23 | I used to get on with the washing-up , see about the dinner and all the rest of the things . |
| 24 | If there was trouble he 'd have to spend the rest of the day putting it down and would n't be able to get on with the arms search at all . |
| 25 | Several weeks later , on the twenty-first anniversary of the baby 's death , we held a tearful and moving ceremony with candles and poetry , in which Betty said goodbye to her baby and gave herself permission to get on with the rest of her life . |
| 26 | One minute he was full of longing to get on with the things that swam into his mind : sorting his stamps , cleaning his sports gear , starting his diary , writing his play . |
| 27 | Next morning I was a new woman , quite revitalised and waiting contritely for JTR who I had summoned back up from Edinburgh to get on with the Lewis Ramble . |
| 28 | Dyson could imagine Lord Boddy and the executives gathered around him putting deference aside from time to time in order to get on with the gardening , or to discipline some delinquent guardsman . |
| 29 | one of the priorities is to get on with the price increases and get them done , right , you know . |
| 30 | Like Iris , I was impatient now to get on with the journey south and see the vessel that was to be our home , but when I saw Chanchán … |