57 Get Phrasal verbs with get There are many phrasal verbs with get, some of which you may have already met in this book or elsewhere. For example, get your act together [become more organised (Unit 8), get found [travel, of news or rumours (Unit 9), get by [have just enough money to pay for the things you need but no more (Unit 6], get someone down [make someone depressed (Unit 10)] and get off [finish work (Unit 3)] Phrasal verb collocations with get The children are very quiet. | hope they're not getting up to mischief. doing something naughty Now we're all here, let's get down to business. start our work | wish my parents would get off my back! I'm studying as hard asineed to. | stop nagging me The football coach decided it was time forhis team to get back tobasics, | start again atthe beginning The business was alittle slow to get off the ground, but its doing very get started well now. [just can’t get the situation with Tom out of my mind, stop thinking about Doctors try to get the message across that too much salt is bad for you. ‘make people understand You are far toa soft on Holly. You let her get away with murder. behave badly and not be criticised or punished ‘What happened between Kian and Daisy? We must try to get to the bottom | understand properly, not fit superficially “They've seen how popular the products and now other companies want to | become involved get in on the act. HIE, Getting down to a good gossip Alice Hi, Beth! Haven't seen you for ages. What have you been get interesting? 1g up to! recently? Anything. Beth Well, 've been getting around? quite a lot actually, mainly for work. 've been to Italy a couple of times and Ireland, visiting our offices. But 've also been getting into® golf recently and ‘managed to get in“ a few rounds between meetings. Alice That's great. It's good ifyou can get something out of the trips for yourself as well as for work, Beth That's right. In fact, 'm finding it quite hard to get back into* the ordinary office routine now. Alice Well, let's get together one evening soon and catch up properly on all the news. 2 doing 4 find time for 2 travelling to different places 5 get benefit from becoming keen on ® return to (after some time) Many phrasal verbs have a whole range of different meanings. fyou come across a phrasal verb andit, doesn't make sense with any meaning that you know look it up online at http://dictionary.cambridge.org to see ifit has a different meaning in that context. us English Prasol Verbs in Use Advanced57.1 57.2 57.3 57.4 57.5 Exercises Put the words in the correct order to make sentences. 1 2 3 4 5 Complete these di speaker agrees 1 she got / together / her act/ It’s time / ajob J found / and not looking / always / to mischief /The children / when / get up /'m the bottom / of that / must / strange letter / get to / | received down / We / business / to / got / immediately is too / Modern / complicated / life / to basics / should / get / We / back (two sentences) logues using phrasal verbs from the opposite page so that the second and repeats more or less what the first speaker says. ‘Anna Sienna always wants to be part of anything that involves publi Ella Ohyes, ifpublicity's involved she always wants to, ity. Alex Welljust have to survive on less money now that ve lost my job. ‘Ameena Yes, don’t worry I'm sure we'll Zara Everyone soon found out about Harry's divorce. I'm amazed. tora Ohyes, the story soon It’s often difficult to make people understand how importants to protect the ‘environment. Callum Yes, it's hard to... ‘Adam Sarah always seems to behave badly and never get criticised by anyone. Antonia Yes, she seems to be able to. Emma |just can’t stop thinking about Lucta, Sergio know. It's the same forme, Ijust can’t Complete these sentences using the correct particles. 1 Studying so hard really got me... s0 | took a break to cheer myself up. 2 Look, just get my back, will you! 'm sick of you finding fault with me. 3 The project tooka long time to get... the ground, but we're moving now. 4 Ihope get something. ~ that summer course I've registered for, it's quite a lot of money to pay. 5 Vd lke to get. 2 game of tennis later today. Are you free around five? 6 Hithere, What have you been getting. - nce | last saw you? 7 Ryan has got ~ photography recently; he spends all his time editing pictures on his computer 8 Let’ get... for lunch one day. I've got loads to tell you. Rewrite these questions, replacing the phrasal verbs with a word or phrase that means the same. 1 When do you normally get off work? 2. Do you get around a lot? 3 Is there any time of the year when you find it hard to get back nto the routine of your daily lite? 4 What have you been getting up to recently? 5 What sorts of things get you down? 6 Where do you usualy get together with your friends? Now answer the questions in 57.4. English Phrasal Verbs in Use Advanced 113