I can try and try to walk, try my very hardest, and yet fall again and again until I finally acquire the necessary skill set.
For a minute, I felt strong, like I had finally acquired an inner peace.
Since I've finally acquired a couple of decent guest rooms, it seems silly not to get a little more use out of them.
Although some of my clothes have fallen victim to ironing experimentation, I think I have now finally acquired all the domestic skills I missed out on in my modern education.
One of the first programmes I saw when we finally acquired a television at the beginning of the 1960s was a Face to Face interview with the comedy actor Tony Hancock, then the most charismatic TV and radio star.
"I'm playin'," he said when he had finally acquired their attention.
I remember once we got lost trying to find a party, and at one point we drove by a house, and one of the cars had a Mystery Spot bumper sticker, and I said, 'That has to be where the party is.' " So even the bumper sticker, which they finally acquired on their visit, has gravitational powers of a sort.
Just when he had finally acquired a building to teach from, she died abruptly in 1973.
But the county never finally acquired the site, which Whitesell ultimately bought for $12.5 million.
(The marble was finally acquired by Nicholas II of Russia for the Hermitage, where it remains).
Carlyle finally acquired Honsel last fall for 300 million marks, or about $150 million.
