How To Use Get on with In A Sentence
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The first is to wonder why, if the government knows that it wants to impose a ban, does it not get on with it?
Times, Sunday Times
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It would free us up time to get on with scrubbing ourselves with carbolic soap…
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Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who chairs an investigative subcommittee that will hold a hearing on the report today, said the Obama administration should "get on with it and actually debar the worst of the tax cheats from the contractor workforce.
GAO report: Tax cheats received billions in stimulus funds
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You're so good with people today and clear up any kind of misunderstanding - and then get on with enjoying all the festivities.
The Sun
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Adam had distributed the instruments among the unarmed men of the Caves, and told them to get on with bugle practice.
KARA KUSH
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It's really too bad that far too much time is spent running around them either looking for the next ledge to jump to, or trying to find which switch to throw so you can get on with the killing.
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Something that she'd be happy to give up for six months if it leaves her more time to get on with the dusting?
Times, Sunday Times
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A speedy resolution of the issue would be most welcome, so that we can get on with the business of cricket.
Times, Sunday Times
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But you have to get on with it.
The Sun
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They should get on with the job because the country is going down the gutter.
Times, Sunday Times
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People here just want to get on with their lives and not bother with a toffee-nosed Tory from the south-east.
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Paquin calmly flays him with words; she makes it clear that this is not something she'll put up with and that he needs to get his head on straight and get on with it.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Romantics
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Then once you have decided to start revising, don't just sit there until the day of your first exam colouring in revision timetables when you haven't actually done any revising, get on with it.
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The schedules are the way they are and we have to get on with them.
The Sun
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Oh for goodness sake, stop pratting around and get on with your work!
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In the event you dont know what the unthinkable is .... it is her getting her butt kicked as is happening now. pretty soon this BS will be over and the country can get on with electing our next president.
Full Michigan delegation with half-vote to be seated by Dems
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Somebody objected and told him to get on with playing the piano.
Times, Sunday Times
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Something told us that I would need to wear something bright and cheerful to get on with my day.
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After confronting mum and dad, I have been able to get on with my life but I still bare the emotional scars and visual torments of dreams and visions.
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Perhaps then ministers would learn to issue directives and allow people to get on with things, instead of the seeming constant interference.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘It was an idea I'd had for a while to make a CD of local unsigned musicians and give the profits to charity; and I realised if I wanted to do I should just get on with it,’ said Dave.
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You just get on with life and keep going.
Times, Sunday Times
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A wiser response to the apparent inexpressibility of statements about God may be simply not to express them, and just get on with the gardening.
Books, Inq. — The Epilogue
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And then I get on with my morning, a seething mass of bitterness and bile.
Times, Sunday Times
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I didn't get on with her at work either - we fought like cat and dog.
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The only thing to do is let them get on with it and do what they want.
Times, Sunday Times
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I nodded and took the headcollar from him, and told him I'd see to Indigo, and he could go and get on with putting the oats through the crushing machine ready for the morning feeds.
Bonecrack
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Of course there are highly publicised stories of high profile cons being attacked i. e Huntly, but in the main, cons just want to get on with their sentence and get the hell out of there and if scoring some smack from a beastie helps dull the process then they WILL associate with them. on January 29, 2007 at 11: 02 am | Reply Notacriminal
Silly Me « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Hurry, she must be thinking, hurry up and finish, I'm drunk and need a bed for the night and they'll be along with the money for the letters soon, so get on with it and spend your spunk, you great ugly lout of a dockhand ...
Ripping Time
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Let him pay the penalty and get on with it.
Times, Sunday Times
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He should, he knew, speak with some sense of colloquialism if he was to get on with this stonebreaker, a person for whom he had a certain removed sympathy.
Waysiders
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So lets forget my own personal disasters and get on with the business at hand, that is voting on tomorrows story, start voting now.
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The rest of us want to get on with our lives in peace and harmony.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sounds to me like you've got all the mental/spiritual equipment you need and should just get on with it!
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Be positive about your future and get on with living a normal life.
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She found it difficult to get on with her[Sentencedict], possibly because of the difference in their ages.
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You can't simply shrug and just get on with your life.
The Sun
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Again, a student starts to feel trapped, and they're in a house where they don't get on with their housemates.
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The schedules are the way they are and we have to get on with them.
The Sun
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Re-skilling Britain may be a worthy objective, but it's more likely to be achieved by officials and politicians butting out, cutting the burden of regulation and taxation, and letting business people get on with the wealth-creation job that they know far better than any government ever will.
Ed Miliband's New Labour economics
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Neither of us told the other to shut up and get on with emptying the dishwasher.
Times, Sunday Times
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He just wants to get on with life after a failed marriage.
The Sun
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I didn't get on with her at work either - we fought like cat and dog.
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His mindset is to forget the US Open and get on with playing this week and the week after.
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You have just got to suck it up and get on with it.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd rather face up to the finality and get on with my life, lonely or not, for as long as it lasts.
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Get on with life and don't sit back and mope.
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It's got to be better than stopping people in the street who'll quickly make up any old tosh just to get away and get on with their daily duties.
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Of course, over time, you expect that that levels out and we are now at the period where hopefully the coverage will be fifty-fifty and we get on with the election campaign.
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Let her rub and brush any plastic bowls and cups while you get on with your washing-up at the nearby sink.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meantime, the true extreme social conservatives get on with their business of murder and butchery on video.
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Most of the day, though, Dolly's been snoozing, taking over the bed and demanding to be left alone to get on with some serious nap time.
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Let's just formalize it so we can both get on with our own lives.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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For our part, we've got to get our heads down and get on with improving the existing network.
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Dare they call her bluff and just let her get on with whatever she thought she could do to inconvenience them?
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Let her rub and brush any plastic bowls and cups while you get on with your washing-up at the nearby sink.
Times, Sunday Times
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We prefer to be left alone so that we can get on with being innovative and creative.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is keen to emphasise the positives and to look forward and for the industry to stop moping and get on with delivering results.
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I always find that any reference to a woman "creaming" (unless it's being said derisively) puts me off and throws me out of the story... because (I kid you not), it always throws me back to crude comments a certain highschool boy we both knew and didn't get on with used to make.
Prude
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Hopefully I'll come back refreshed and with a will to get on with lots of exciting things!
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Do I tell the physios or just get on with it?
The Sun
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It is exactly the kind of thing a truly determined and environmentally conscious government could get on with and do.
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So stop worrying about the cost to the economy and get on with building a snowman.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two bloody wars and we're still content to snooze and let that lot get on with it.
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It made no sense and I was bored silly, just waiting for it to end so we could get on with the scheduled video.
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It was a real sickener, but I've got to get on with it now and get playing again.
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So begone, hypocritical puritans, and let the rest of us get on with enjoying our daily dose of sex and gossip.
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In Kathy's case, also known as Sara Olson, isn't it possible, as a question, for someone to change, for someone to rehabilitate or habilitate themselves, get on with their lives, lead a good life, be a good parent, and just by the nature -- it doesn't forgive the act they did -- but they may not be the same person they were 24 years ago.
CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2002
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I really don't give a toss if CNN prints this or not; the moderation of these comments isn't nearly as strict as some of you seem to think it is anyway – they print what best advances the conversation at hand, even if it is unfounded blather from the masses, so just take off your tinfoil hats and get on with your lives, please.
Obama, Medvedev reach 'substantial' deal on Afghanistan
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The monkey mind has been too too prominant and after so long off, it's chattering is drowned out by the need to GET ON WITH IT!
*whew*
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Nobody was in a hurry and none was seen prodding the organisers to get on with the item.
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And as a backbencher you will need to allow your successors to get on with that task without undue interference.
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Oh for goodness sake, stop pratting around and get on with your work!
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He said: "Maggie not only is one of our finest actresses, she's also what we call a trooper, she would just get on with her work and she just did it unflinchingly and marvellously and with a great deal of wit, her sharp wit that she retained throughout the whole shoot even though she hadn't been very well.
Undefined
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Top teams and top players can refocus very quickly and get on with the job in hand.
The Sun
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Encouraging able people to get on with what they are good at doing.
Times, Sunday Times
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He stepped on to the elevator, and the doors closed in front of him before Wyatt remembered to get on with him.
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If she really wanted to get on with her midlife crisis and go to a rave she should have expressed the milk and got a babysitter.
The Sun
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We missed the boat on the last vote and now we need to get on with it.
The Sun
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He enters, apologises bluntly for keeping us waiting, and says he's extremely busy, so let's get on with it.
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Happily, he was restored to full health to get on with his race weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the voices speak to him (or he reads the significance of Viking remains), they tell him how to get on with his poetry, not how the rest of the people from the North can get on with life.
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July 16th, 2009 2: 11 pm ET all the GOP will do while they are "confirming" is drill the same three questions into the ground, shes going to respond to them the same way, all day, everyday. just confirm her and get on with it.
Leahy wants committee confirmation vote next week
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Let the lead performers stay downstage facing the audience, tell the chorus to stand still, don't try anything clever and just get on with the singing.
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The gaffer has spoken to the chairman and told me to just get on with organising everything.
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You get on with your job, just as you always have, sheltered from politics by many layers of secrecy and officialdom.
Times, Sunday Times
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The people I did get on with have all phoned to say bye, including my one senior ally who thought I should never have been made to do those dreaded phone calls.
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That he just likes to get on with the job.
The Sun
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Get that guitar round your neck and get on with it!
The Sun
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She just wants to get on with it.
Times, Sunday Times
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This time, he convinced himself, he would confront his fears and get on with his life.
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He doesn't get on with his daughter.
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Stuffing it into her mouth, she grunted and let the cook get on with baking the bread.
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he told me curtly to get on with it
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I get on with it over lunch - a sandwich and a green apple from the canteen, eaten at my desk.
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Adam had distributed the instruments among the unarmed men of the Caves, and told them to get on with bugle practice.
KARA KUSH
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You can't simply shrug and just get on with your life.
The Sun
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Be positive about your future and get on with living a normal life.
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Although he's clearly still at the rules stage of building the structure into this young garden, Conran is impatient to get on with the fun of messing.
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Our remit is to catch crook and by and large we are left to get on with it.
I’ll Do Anything Me. For Now That Is. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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His parting shot: 'Let me know how you get on without the heat.
Times, Sunday Times
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The schedules are the way they are and we have to get on with them.
The Sun
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While my better half was absorbed in details of converted temples, under-floor heating, and plunge pools, I was able to get on with a little botanising.
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You have to ignore the pinpricks and just get on with the job.
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Return to your places and get on with your work.
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The crucially important thing now is that whatever fences were damaged or knocked are mended and rebuilt, and that we get on with the forthcoming challenges with a united front.
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So Parliament must get on with making this new law effective as soon as possible.
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They need to get on with it and not moan.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have to back him again and let him get on with it.
The Sun
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Two bloody wars and we're still content to snooze and let that lot get on with it.
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Happily, he was restored to full health to get on with his race weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
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A speedy resolution of the issue would be most welcome, so that we can get on with the business of cricket.
Times, Sunday Times
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I never, _never_ expected to see them again, and it was like some kind of bloody miracle, and you were the one who -- okay, Mrs. Gamadge says we'll both be crying in a minute so I better get on with it.
Murder Crossed
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. Louisa May Alcott
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Once cooked rinse it immediately in cold water, then let it soak in fresh cold water while you get on with the sauce.
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But they don't whinge and just get on with the job.
The Sun
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It was interesting to listen to young Indians claim that 1997 was a punctuation mark, that 50 years after British rule ended it was time for the country to get on with its own life, unburdened by the past.
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Maybe you like the peace and solitude of the early hours of the morning so that you can get on with various important tasks uninterrupted.
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'Over the last year I found it hard to discipline myself to get on with my work', she said.
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"You get on with it, Charley," said she, giving him the can and fishing a spoon from the interior of her apron bib.
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Let's just formalize it so we can both get on with our own lives.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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Anyway, I'd better stop being a beastly child and get on with it.
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I was working with a really lovely girl who I get on with really well.
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Nobody gathers here, and the kinless can get on with their work.
Burning Tower
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After being demobbed, Columbanus remembers his happiness standing on O'Connell Bridge, being back home and ready to marry and get on with his life.
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Just shut up and get on with your work!
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Martine didn't own a kettle so a pan of water had to be boiled, I knew that if Helene needed a cup of coffee it was best to let her get on with it.
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You're a boobhead same as the rest, and for the same reason—you couldn't get on with society.
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Society is frankly an unjust place and things go wrong but we have to get on with our lives and deal with them.
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Nothing much ever happens, the inhabitants just get on with everyday life with the minimum of fuss, stress and excitement.
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Each has its own story to tell, and a good national policy is of course one which recognises that diversity, which is able to relate, again, people of faith to the specific geographical, social, demographic contexts in which they ordinarily, unfussily, get on with their business.
Archbishop's Speech at the Launch of Inter Faith Consultation
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Why don't these people just get on with living their lives and leave others to live theirs?
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We did our best to treat people fairly and provide continuity of compensation and outplacement services, and we tried to get it over quickly so that we could get on with business.
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Be positive about your future and get on with living a normal life.
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They should leave the rescue services to get on with their job and not apply the brakes to have a stare.
The Sun
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How can the world possibly let him get on with his lucrative job when he refuses to admit he has done anything wrong?
The Sun
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‘The election has thrown up some imponderables that we just have to now manage our way through but that is the will of the people of Northern Ireland and now the two governments have to get on with it,’ he said.
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While I have enough friends involved to have some idea of what SFWA *could* do and intends to do and talks about doing, it’s nice to see someone kicking the organization in it’s collective arse and suggesting it get on with *doing* rather than thinking about doing.
Out in the Open (A SFWA-Related Post) « Whatever
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Stop pissing about and get on with your work.
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Obama is just giving the Republicans a distraction to spend their political capital on — namely, striking contraceptives, STD prevention and Mall re-sodding from the bill — so that he and the Democrats can get on with the serious business of crafting a stimulus bill that work.
Matthew Yglesias » Something for What?
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"Maybe I can give him some sort of disease," she thought mischievously, "so that we can all get on with our lives."
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Happily, he was restored to full health to get on with his race weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would be so much easier to shut the road and get on with it while the new overbridge was being built.
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They were very jumpy about anything like that happening again, so I didn't believe for a second that they'd let 50 cultists that close to the city just get on with business unwatched.
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And all the manager did was wag his finger and told me to get on with it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Research by academics from the University of North Carolina has suggested that when teams talk they tend to discuss information they already know and that "talkier" teams are often less effective than those that just get on with the job.
Management-Issues : News
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Let's just formalize it so we can both get on with our own lives.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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Best get on with doing the job while still obeying the law.
Times, Sunday Times
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He should just get on with producing his best form instead of having his agent constantly moaning and demanding another pay rise.
The Sun
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Okay, now that we have done our proper buzzkill - let's get on with the facts!
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The record industry thinks everything is okay while the rest of us get on with our lives.
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Having tersely summed up two arguments that I disagree with in various ways, I'll get on with my own argument.
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It will take a long time to rebuild their confidence and get on with leading their lives.
The Sun
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Taking Gnosis to task casts the detractor as an unreasoning, narrow-minded brute, steeped in dogma and conversely, casts the Gnostic as an unharmful, gentle soul who believes in the fusion of all religion and would simply like to be allowed to get on with his own pursuit of spiritual ascendancy without coming under fire, a view quite appealing to a libertarian, for example.
[gnosis] gnosticism, gnostics
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We screen people to check that they will get on with each other.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of us like to get on with it instead of whining like ninnies.
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But they don't whinge and just get on with the job.
The Sun
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And then he wondered why he could not get on with his writing and why he was forever catching cold (_einen starken Schnupfen_); and why his head was so thick half the time that he couldn't do a thing with it.
The Joyful Heart
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Raglan kept sending gallopers down - Lew among them - to tell Lucan, and the infantry commanders, to get on with it, but they seemed maddeningly obtuse about his orders, and wanted to wait for our infantry to come up, and it was this delay that was fretting Raglan and sending Lew half-crazy.
The Sky Writer
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The young might do well to tie a handkerchief over the rear-view mirror and just get on with it.
Times, Sunday Times
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They want it over and done with so that they can get on with the next step of their rebuilding process.
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They continued talking for a while, when Leila announced she was hungry and that they should get on with the root beer floats.
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Sylvia does not get on with the supervisor and the danger is that he will trump up some charge to discredit her.
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Be positive about your future and get on with living a normal life.
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We hope they can iron out their differences and get on with working together.
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That he just likes to get on with the job.
The Sun
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You get on with your job, just as you always have, sheltered from politics by many layers of secrecy and officialdom.
Times, Sunday Times
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The life of the individual would have to take precedence over the reification of the group, and society must decide to get on with the fundamental task of living in a sustainable environment.
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The large city bustled with movement, and it seemed everyone was in a hurry to get on with their lives.
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With a mutter or two the chap retreated into a sulk and decided to get on with his reading material.
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This painting plunges us into blocks of colour, and lets us get on with the task of working out our personal interpretations.
Times, Sunday Times
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I then got in touch, or got the office manager to get in touch with the handler and tell him to get on with it because I thought it was their job that was gone off.
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He possessed an egalitarian ability to get on with people from all walks of life, especially if their background happened to involve horses.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were alive and just left to get on with it.
The Sun
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We wanted to get on with the job quickly, because metal detectorists were swarming all over the place.
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Does she get on with your aunt?
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While rock offers a chosen few access to the very gates of paradise, a million more pretenders to stardom in every generation have to suck it up and get on with their unextraordinary, unprivileged lives.
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He possessed an egalitarian ability to get on with people from all walks of life, especially if their background happened to involve horses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Getting slapped is part and parcel of ministry and we just have to turn the other cheek and get on with it.
Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
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It shows enterprise and the ability to get on with other people, and these are often better guides to character than academic achievement.
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You usually don't have the freedom to do with the property as you want, but we have a laird who has let us get on with it.
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He was a jovial, charming character who had a heart of gold and would get on with anyone.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd appreciate it if you let me get on with my job.
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They should leave the rescue services to get on with their job and not apply the brakes to have a stare.
The Sun
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Better to just give someone a goblin in jar and let them get on with it.
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The only thing to do was knuckle down and get on with some serious hard work.
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She found it difficult to get on with her, possibly because of the difference in their ages.
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You have to knuckle down and get on with it, as there were times when I would be the most senior professional playing in the reserves after travelling with the first team and not being involved.
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Let's get on with the matter in hand .
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She would then laugh and get on with what really mattered to her, which was her own highly individualistic work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Right from the start he was very up for it, keen to get on with the lads and hungry for success, and he has integrated really well.
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Before the two could get on with their innocent, child-like play, however, a loud clap of thunder echoed throughout the skies, which had turned dark from a while ago.
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But he trusts the architect to get on with it.
Times, Sunday Times
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I suppose I could get on with the ironing while I'm waiting.
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Leiber's edgy narrative throughout this story of dark eroticism is very descriptive, oftentimes lingering (seemingly) too long on Ryker's point of view, making the reader wonder when he will get on with the story.
REVIEW: Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories edited by Charles N. Brown and Jonathan Strahan
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Every day I come across those who get on with the work that God has put them on earth to do without fussing, those who encourage, those who edify, those who live a life of intercession.
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`Righto, Miss. We'll get on with the bit of rewiring we've got to do.
GOODBYE CURATE
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I have personally always found that people of Indian origin tend to be much more friendly, hard working, and easier to get on with than those who originate from a certain neighbouring country and incidentally dominate parts of the West Midlands. on March 16, 2010 at 1: 22 pm ExTrafficbiker
Police Search Too Few White People SHOCK!! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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This enquiry will point a few fingers and 'tut' a little, but the major players will walk free and get on with their lives without a second thought for the sons, brothers, fathers and friends they murdered.
Army Rumour Service
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‘In the meantime, I've got to get on with doing a mock-up of the new Scottish sea loch,’ he says.
