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1  They can't get him, old sport.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  I want to get one for the apartment.
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3  I've got to get another one tomorrow.
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4  "I want to get the grass cut," he said.
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5  The rich get richer and the poor get--children.
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6  "I want to get one of those dogs," she said earnestly.
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7  I'm going to make a list of all the things I've got to get.
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8  I'd like to do more work on Long Island if I could get the entry.
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9  "She really ought to get away from him," resumed Catherine to me.
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10  "Anything I hate is to get my head stuck in a pool," mumbled Miss Baedeker.
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11  'All right,' says Rosy and begins to get up and I pulled him down in his chair.
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12  "Let's get out," whispered Jordan, after a somehow wasteful and inappropriate half hour.
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13  He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out.
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14  After that she didn't play around with the soldiers any more but only with a few flat-footed, short-sighted young men in town who couldn't get into the army at all.
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15  But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
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16  I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair.
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17  I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden.
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