if a train, plane etc gets into a place, it arrives there
to arrive at work or school
to be accepted to study at a school or chosen to play for a team etc
to be elected to a political job
to become involved in a bad situation
to begin to discuss something
to start doing something regularly in a particular way
to start enjoying something, or to become enthusiastic about it
to start getting into an angry emotional state
used for asking why someone is behaving in an unusual or annoying way
And they were more than six times as likely to get into Oxford or Cambridge.
I don’t think we have time to get into that now.
I don’t want to get into an argument with him.
I got into school early that day.
I mean, trying to get into Cambridge!
It is caused by air getting into the engine via the air intake.
Just over a fifth of pupils who applied from comprehensive schools got into Cambridge, compared with more than a third of applicants at independent schools.
Not for plotting to blow up the school; but for getting into Cambridge a year early.
On leaving school he surprised his family by choosing to go into the Army after failing to get into Cambridge.
She also fails to get into Cambridge but what really tips her over the edge?
She got into Parliament at the age of 26.
She got into one of the top universities in the country.
She’s really getting into the Internet.
Those kids are always getting into trouble.
Try to get into the habit of drinking a glass of water every hour.
What (apart from half a cow ) has got into me?
When I complained he got into a temper and began shouting at me.
When the time came, he got into Cambridge to read classics.
You feel shy when you start your speech, but then you get into it.
gets into
getting into
got into
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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