Sentence examples for getting on a jet from inspiring English sources
After Brian Grazer gave James an emphatic hug, James told him, "We've got our first scene already — he's on his back watching the Navy jets fly overhead from the nearby base — and our last scene, where he finally makes it and is getting on a jet going somewhere".
"I can't get on a jet plane and go over there to Saudi Arabia," he said.
That wasn't even the first word of the day: the police commissioner had beaten the mayor to it, issuing a statement at 6 30 in the morning, before he got on a jet in London.
"As I understand it, some of the crew said, 'No way, I'm not going to get on a jet with a bunch of people that hate me so bad they're booing me,' " Mr. Hedlund said.
Americans who don't want to actually get on a jet to buy a jet-setting phone can still have their needs sated.
"If [HSBC chiefs] Douglas Flint and Stuart Gulliver got on a jet and said they were moving to Switzerland, Swiss national bank governor Thomas Jordan would be stood on the runway with a shotgun telling them to get back on the plane," he jokes.
You get on a jet, fasten your seat belt, take a nap or watch a movie, and in less than half a day you're on the other side of the world.
T.W.A. may soon vanish, too, but not for people like me, who still remember the pride that came with walking through an airport in a T.W.A. uniform, getting on a jumbo jet and going somewhere.
I told Rupert Murdoch some years ago that he had the face of a man who is always getting on or off a long-distance jet.
