phrasal verbs 3

to start to direct your efforts and attention towards something:

• get down to sth

• get down

• get off with

I've got a lot of work to do, but I can't seem to get (a)   to it.

When you say that you can't get ........... something, you mean that you are very surprised by it:

not get ........ something

idiom

(a)  

I can't ................ the way he behaved at your party - it was appalling!

• get over

• get across

• get down

• get off with

to do or finish an unpleasant but necessary piece of work or duty so that you do not have to worry about it in the future:

• get sth over with

• get over sth

• get down to

• get down

I'll be glad to get these exams over (a)  

to find time to do something that you have intended or would like to do:

• get round to sth

• get around to ving

• get down to sth

• get sth over with

I wanted to see that movie but never got (a)   to it.

to do something, often something that other people would disapprove of:

• get up to sth

• get round to

• get over with

• get down to

She's been getting ........ to all sorts of mischief lately.

I wonder what those two got .......... to yesterday?

• up

• down

• on