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Gene: OK, let me get at it and I'll see what I can do.

There was plenty of coal. The old workings could not get at it, that was all.

He wanted ever so badly to read it; he would get at it the first opportunity and find out just what Jane had said.

When he reached it, he discovered to his grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly get at it.

Grain is often heaped on the ground and covered with a sheet: no wonder the rats get at it.

Once the koala is dinging to the dog's underside, the dog can't get at it with its jaws.

The basic rule in writing is: the more you write, the better you get at it, and this goes for reviews as well.

There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet! No one can get at it except for me!

Then you've just shifted the problem from the banks to somewhere else where you can't really get at it.

To get at it, James had driven the car's front wheels onto two ramps he positioned in the driveway.

And because it is so scarce, it is worth digging out a lot of rock to get at it, and using poisonous chemicals to extract it from that rock.

Put the food where the cat can't get at it.

In other words, we don't know the data but we remember lots of ways to get at it very quickly.

Get at The cat hid where we couldn't get at it.

e. g. The cat hid where we couldn't get at it.

the better you get at it, and the more fun you have doing it.

Put the medicine somewhere where the children can't get at it

"The more sex you have, the better you get at it. I want to learn more about women and how to give them pleasure. "