v.
1) ( B ) ('to deliver') I have to ~ a message to her
2) ( C ) ('to obtain') she got a newspaper for me; or: she got me a newspaper
3) ( d ; intr. , tr. ) to ~ across ('to cross'); ('to cause to cross') (to ~ across a bridge; the general finally got his troops across the river)
4) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ after ('to exert pressure on') (you'll have to ~ after them: they are coming to work late every day)
5) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ around ('to evade') (we cannot ~ around the regulations)
6) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ at ('to suggest') (what are you ~ting at?)
7) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ at ('to reach') (I hope that the children cannot ~ at the medicine; you're safe here: your enemies cannot ~ at you; to ~ at the truth)
8) ( esp. AE ) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ behind ('to support') (we must ~ behind her campaign)
9) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ between ('to try to separate') (never ~ between fighting dogs)
10) ( d ; intr. , refl. , tr. ) to ~ into ('to enter'); ('to cause to enter') (to ~ into trouble; to ~ oneself into debt; to ~ smb. into trouble; to ~ into a fight)
11) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ into ('to affect') (what got into him?)
12) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ off ('to leave') (to ~ off a train)
13) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ on ('to enter') (to ~ on a train)
14) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ on ('to affect') (to ~ on smb.'s nerves)
15) ( d ; tr. ) to ~ on ('to cause to enter') (he finally got the whole group on the train)
16) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ onto ('to enter') (she could not ~ onto the train)
17) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ onto ('to take up for discussion') (we got onto a very interesting topic)
18) ( colloq. ) ( esp. AE ) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ onto ('to become aware of') (we finally got onto her schemes)
19) ( d ; intr. , tr. ) to ~ out of ('to leave'); ('to extricate'); ('to extricate oneself from') (to ~ out of a car; I got him out of trouble; to ~ out of trouble; when did he ~ out of prison?)
20) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ over ('to overcome') (you'll have to ~ over your fear of speaking in public)
21) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ over ('to recover from') (has she got/gotten over the shock?)
22) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ past ('to slip by') (we got past the guard)
23) ( d ; intr. ) ('to be unnoticed') to ~ past (the error got past him)
24) ( d ; intr. , tr. ) ('to pass'); ('to cause to pass') to ~ through (to ~ through a door; we could not ~ the piano through the window)
25) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ to ('to reach') (to ~ to a telephone; to ~ to the point; we got to the theater late)
26) ( colloq. ) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ to ('to affect') (her pleas got to me)
27) ( colloq. ) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ to ('to bribe') (they got to the mayor himself)
28) ( d ; tr. ) ('to deliver') to ~ to (to ~ smb. to a hospital)
29) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ within ('to come') (don't ~ within range of the enemy artillery)
30) ( E ) ('to succeed in') if you can ~ to see her, you may receive some help; if you ~ to know her, you'll like her
31) ( colloq. ) ( E ; used in the perfect tense) ('to be obliged to') she's got to finish the work by tomorrow
32) ( G ) ('to begin') he finally got going
33) ( H ; no passive) ('to bring about') she finally got the television to work; I got a gardener to cut the grass
34) ( J ; more usu. is H ) ('to bring about') she finally got the television working
35) ( N ; used with an adjective, past participle) ('to make') we got our tools ready; he got us involved; try to ~ them interested
36) ( P ; intr. ) ('to arrive') he finally got home
37) (s) ('to become') to ~ angry; to ~ drunk; to ~ loose; to ~ rid of; to ~ even with smb.
38) ( misc. ) to ~ cracking ('to start moving'); to ~ in touch with smb.; to ~ nowhere ('to be unsuccessful'); to ~ somewhere ('to score a success')
USAGE NOTE: In AE , the past participle of to ~ is usu. gotten --they'd gotten everything ready. In BE , it is got --they'd got everything ready. (Note that ill-gotten gains is CE .) However. AE does use have got especially in the meaning 'must'. Thus, the sentence I've got to go is CE . Only BE uses had got to form the past tense of this construction-- I'd got to do it yesterday 'I had to do it yesterday'. BE also has he'd got work 'he had work'.