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Example sentences for "get there"

  • The Emerald City is ruled by a friend of mine, the Princess Ozma, and if we can manage to get there I'm sure she will know a way to send you home to your father again.

  • If the Truth Pond is in Oz, we'll be sure to find it when we get there.

  • What place it will be we can't even guess at this moment, but we're sure to find out when we get there.

  • To get there we might have ridden straight into the cup, but a providential instinct made me circle round the top till we were on the lip of the ravine.

  • It will take us three hours' hard riding to get there.

  • We say, "When I get there, it will be right.

  • I only remember how thankful and happy he was to be able to get there.

  • An Englishman says, "When I get there, it will be night.

  • Once we get there it would be easy to slip around, for it happens there's plenty of good cover, I notice.

  • I've figured it all out, and know that a steamer carrying a third letter couldn't have had time to get there.

  • No telling when the volunteer firemen will get there, they seem so slow about gathering, and running their old machine to a blaze.

  • What good would it do him to get there before?

  • What if he goes straight to Beem-Tay and presents the letter before I get there!

  • Just before we started she drew me aside and said: "Sam, when we get there, for Heaven's sake look blank.

  • I don't know what my mother will say when I get there.

  • But I have a piece of bread that I saved from breakfast, and I have twopence which my father gave me once, so I shall manage till I get there.

  • Wake me when we get there, Gallegher," he said.

  • And you have to hump yourself to get there on time.

  • When we newspaper men leave this place we'll leave it in a hurry, and the man who is nearest town is likely to get there first.

  • If you go on like this, either the cattle will die, or they won't pay me two roubles for the meat when I do get there.

  • We shan't get there till to-morrow going on like this.

  • As soon as we get there he will dart out of his room and will begin calling me names.

  • About how long will it be before we get there?

  • The day was still long, and when they felt like starting toward home it would take them but a very short time to get there.

  • We've got to get there," was the grim response.

  • Sounds good, Tom, but even if we went after, supper, could we get there in time?

  • I was so afraid you wouldn't get there in time!

  • Let him alone, woman; he'll get there, he'll get there.

  • It's got to be a rush, and I hope it lasts long enough for some of us to get there," he added soberly.

  • I don't see why we shouldn't get there by night," observed Roger.

  • Then come on, and may we all live to get there!

  • Don't attempt to "get there" before making adequate preparation for success.

  • Nearly always when a man out of a job answers an advertisement or follows up a clue to a possible opening for his services, he thinks the most important thing is to "get there first.

  • From the very start he was "certain to get there.

  • No, not very far; at least, it doesn't take long to get there with a smart horse.

  • Oh no; you see, it takes a long time to get there, because there are so many changes from the end of the cable to the office where Kenyon is.

  • It means "Hold on, till we get there, boys!

  • You and I'll take turns sleeping all the way to Jailpore, so's to be fresh, both of us, and fit for anything by the time that we get there!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "get there" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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