Sentence examples for have got around to from inspiring English sources

The phrase "have got around to" is grammatically correct and widely used in spoken and written English.
It is typically used to indicate that someone has finally found the time or motivation to do something. Example: "I've been meaning to clean out the garage for weeks, but I just haven't got around to it yet." This means that the person has not yet found the time or motivation to clean out the garage. In a more formal context, it can be written as "have found the time to" or "have managed to." Example: "I finally found the time to finish my report."

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If it wasn't for Paul Theroux, I might never have got around to reading Elizabeth Taylor.

The other empowers you to do good when you probably wouldn't have got around to it otherwise.

I have got around to Jane Austen, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre so I did grow up properly after the pony books.

My mother said that nobody seemed to have got around to figuring out that, since he was a war veteran, he could easily have been her student without that making her older.

Yet the shortness of most peasants' contracts—if they are lucky enough to live in places where local officials have got around to handing them out is only one part of the problem.

Still, you'd think someone at their HQ might have got around to pulling down the splash front page greeting visitors to their website this morning, promising that "The road to South Africa continues!".

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If he had lived longer, he might have gotten around to it".

We might have gotten around to it, but what they did was fantastic".

I felt sorry to have put her in this position, but I was also bitter: just when would she have gotten around to telling me?

So it is only now that I have gotten around to Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger," which won the Man Booker Prize last year.

Who knows when AT&T would have gotten around to protecting our data?

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