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understand, usually after some initial difficulty
She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on
How To Use get onto In A Sentence
- Only a few metres separated the pair as they charged off the fell and in the 100 metre sprint to the line Till managed to get onto Fretwell's tail and each showed a gritty determination to win.
- So I am led to the pod, where she tells me to get onto the table. Times, Sunday Times
- It does still require the specially crafted ".ani" file to get onto the local system, but these days that still isn't that hard I don't think. UFies.org: March 2007 Archives
- If you go into a casino, the croupier is trained to get the chips down the hole as fast as possible and get onto the next game, it's all about getting as much money and the slot machines are designed like that as well.
- It can take that long just to get onto the plane. Times, Sunday Times
- I try to get onto th joeks "Stop tainting the waste stream with pieces of wood and old underwear!" lowery a chewy malbec mattl Ctrl-V: the freedom to wear shoes whenever your pinky toes are not hooked up to transcutaneous electrodes miketempleton orange_botline skampy - AIM IM with zoestoe. Paste to Win! (A Twitter Contest) - Anil Dash
- I'll get onto my lawyer about this.
- Right, I'll get onto it straight away.
- I must get onto the plumber about the shower.
- Get onto the national parks people and find out if you need to prebook camping space. Surviving Australia