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The phrase "get possession of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to mean to acquire or gain possession of something. For example, "The thief was able to get possession of the painting."
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Mr. Ratner is not expected to get possession of all the property until sometime next year.
Dozens of horsemen gallop around, show off and try to get possession of a headless calf.
It took the Vijayavargs more than three months to get possession of their shop, which was confiscated by the police for evidence.
If the tenancy runs on after the fixed period, landlords can get possession of the property by giving two months' notice.
Aware that water is a precious commodity in Florida, the city of Weeki Wachee recently sued to get possession of a local water utility that it feared might someday tap into the spring, another potential bad ending for the park.
Are we living in such a way that we can experience it at all? Can we get possession of the ball?
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"Tonight we weren't getting the puck in and getting possession of it," Lindros said.
"The problem is that the wrong people got possession of the guns".
The lender gets an agreed rate of interest, and it gets possession of the collateral while the loan is outstanding.
His mother thought a certain pair of beds that the countess had gotten possession of, should rightly have been hers.
The Franconian acquisitions of the burgraves of Nürnberg began when Frederick III (d. 1297) got possession of Bayreuth, and his descendants acquired Ansbach and Kulmbach.
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