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arrive at the point of
She gets to fretting if I stay away from home too long -
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves
Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me -
reach a goal
make the first team
She may not make the grade
We made it!
How To Use get to In A Sentence
- KING: How do you react to the fact, we'll get to "Apollo 13" and lots of other things, that people looked at it from their point of view, liberals saw it as liberal, conservatives saw it conservative, moderates saw it as moderate, some people saw it as apolitical, antipolitical. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Tom Hanks' Career From `Bonfire of the Vanities' to `Saving Private Ryan' - February 17, 2001
- I'’m bored" is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say "I’m bored.". Louis C.K.
- I had to struggle through the crush to get to the door.
- Ditch your mascara, use your fingers rather than a brush and don't forget to smudge your lipstick. Times, Sunday Times
- I overheard two fifteen year old girls behind me at the ATM planning to get together tomorrow night and eat ice cream and comfort each other when they didn't get any valentines.
- You can stoke his silicon chest and pinch his squeezable bum - it may be the closest you ever get to doing it.
- Generally speaking, I tend not to get too bent out of shape by occasional rhetorical howlers.
- Officers used a digger to carve out a trench 10ft deep and 40ft long to get to the van. The Sun
- If it's wind or bloating, you get too much. The Sun
- The world may get to have a reformed international financial system but the dollar will still be at its core. Times, Sunday Times
