Phrases with get

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1. It can take weeks to get over an illness like that.

2. I know from personal experience that you never ever really get over an awful loss like this in your family.

• to start to feel happy or well again.

• to want to feel happy or well again.

• to seem to feel happy or well again.

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We're getting on much better now that we don't live together.

It's important that you get on with your colleagues.

• to have a bad relationship.

• to have an unstable relationship.

• to have a good relationship.

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They thought they could get away with cheating with their taxes.

How can he get away with speaking to his mother like that?

• to do something bad and being punished or criticized for it.

• to do something bad with being punished or criticized for it.

• to do something bad without being punished or criticized for it.

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I was trying to get across how much I admired them.

What message are you trying to get across to the consumer?

• to manage to communicate an idea

  quickly.

• to manage to communicate an idea clearly.

• to manage to communicate an idea finally.

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Sometimes you have to be ruthless to get ahead in business.

One in four parents believes that good education is essential in getting ahead in life.

• to become succesful in one's life or career

• to become rich in one's life or career

• to become famous in one's life or career

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I took a job as a secretary to get a foot in the door.

• to be in a bad mood and to be easily annoyed all day.

• to have an opportunity to speak

• to get your first opportunity to work in a particular organization

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John talked so much that nobody could get a word in edgewise for an hour.

• to have an opportunity to speak.

• to start something and make it successful

• to annoy someone.

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Oh, I can’t listen to him! He’s really getting under my skin .

• to have an opportunity to speak.

• to find out about something secret.

• to annoy someone.

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We're still trying to get this new project off the ground and that’s why I’ve been working a lot of overtime lately.

• to be in a bad mood and to be easily annoyed all day.

• to start something and make it successful.

• to get your first opportunity to work in a particular organization.

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We have a crisis in the organization and I don’t want the press to get wind of it.

• to find out about something secret.

• to start something and make it successful.

• to have an opportunity to speak.