The phrase "able to get something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing the capability or possibility of obtaining or achieving something.
Example: "With hard work and determination, I am confident that I will be able to get something valuable from this experience."
Alternatives: "capable of obtaining" or "able to acquire".
There are a million reasons why we might not be able to get something done.
"If we start listening to each other, we should be able to get something done".
With one-to-one encouragement, everyone should be able to get something down.
They were promises just to be able to get something off you".
"Hopefully, in a few years, I'll be more established in my career and I'll be able to get something bigger".
"If by some chance we're able to get something long-term done, we'll approach that when the ball club is ready to do it," Stewart said.
"And so the country needs to band together to help its other states to be able to get over something that has been disproportionately foisted on one or two or three states of the 50.
It is actually the children of gay couples who are harmed, as Justice Kennedy rightly noted during the Prop 8 arguments, when their parents are not able to get married, something that the American Pediatrics Association recently offered as the reason that it now backs marriage equality.
After he and Theresa were delivered in Slidell, both buses idled for nearly three hours while Merle fumed about not being able to get out and get something to eat at the truck stop's café.
This is the real meaning of the remark she made during one of the New Hampshire debates: "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do — the President before had not even tried — but it took a President to get it done".
So for me to be able to get a little something going, it's cool.
