"be getting onto"

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> was getting onto them

Nowadays, most people say, "was getting on them." But, IMO, anyway,
this is "quite banal," as one of my profs used to say, in any case.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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