verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
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But I think you're right about soaps recently getting sidetracked into men and men's problems.
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I once wanted to be a meteorologist but got sidetracked into this.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dozen of the ducks were sidetracked to Northern California, where they became the basis for contemporary duck farms.
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Along the way, they intend to sidetrack some of President Bush's most controversial proposals, while compromising on others.
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But he was by now too aroused to be sidetracked.
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He hovered for a moment, but his mind was too full to be sidetracked.
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Kemp and Gore served in Congress together and had seen their presidential ambitions sidetracked in 1988.
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Only the really great champions refuse to be sidetracked by any of these minor problems.
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The only way to keep a governor from becoming senator is to sidetrack him off into the presidency.
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Without this the purchaser may be sidetracked into calculations on a whole host of other matters which are not strictly relevant.