Example sentences of "to get [adv prt] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I just could n't wait to get on with the athletics . |
| 5 | Robert Davies , signal works engineer : ‘ failed completely to get on with the testing instruction ’ . |
| 6 | They saw themselves as wanting to get on with the teaching of their subject . |
| 7 | I used to get on with the washing-up , see about the dinner and all the rest of the things . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | one of the priorities is to get on with the price increases and get them done , right , you know . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | Sir Henry Cole thought that the answer to the problem was simple : Scott should remodel his proposals on the lines of Inigo Jones ' scheme for Whitehall Palace , and eventually Street asked in The Builder what was to be gained from changing the architect ; a Gothic building was appropriate , and Scott should be allowed to get on with the work . |
| 16 | My task , apart from the usual household chores , was to get on with the work for my three summer O-levels and to get ahead by starting to work towards my A-levels — English , Latin and Greek . |
| 17 | You may have then had a verbal exchange with your next in line , but bar that you were expected to get on with the work . |
| 18 | The final recipient has still got to get on with the work based on this small amount of information , only now with DOPACS he has a time limit . |
| 19 | As that work comes to er fruition , the staff target will be drafted and in fact work is already begun on that , erm but because the reconnaissance capability wo n't be required until fairly late in the replacement programme then there is no particular hurry to get on with the work . |
| 20 | A spokesman said : The traffic on the M4 is just as busy early in the summer as it is in August , and we wanted to get on with the work before the autumn to take advantage of the longer days and better weather . |
| 21 | We should be allowed to get on with the training and leave the generation of profit to those with the necessary expertise . |
| 22 | Emil , Oliver , Cathy and I went round the tables pouring wine , tea or coffee into glasses or cups on small trays with small movements , and when that was done Zak bounded into the midst of things , vibrating with fresh energy , to get on with the mystery . |
| 23 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 24 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |
| 25 | We need to sort out the EC 's finances if we are to get on with the community 's enlargement . |
| 26 | They all smelt of useful newness , seeming eager to get on with the job . |
| 27 | It 's almost as if some teachers hold the belief that the best parents are those that are docile and ignorant about the school , leaving the professionals to get on with the job . |
| 28 | If LEAs take their assigned task seriously , schools may begin to hanker for the days when they were given the tools and told to get on with the job . |
| 29 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 30 | Each person has never sought an honour or payment for their selfless work , preferring quietly to get on with the job . |