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He has a very superficial knowledge of Japanese but it was enough to get by during his visit to Tokyo last summer.
She managed to get by the crowd in the park.
Can't you get by on your salary?
Don't park your car in the lane behind the house because my neighbor won't be able to get by.
I can't get by without him.
International traders are struggling just to get by.
Excuse me.
Can I get by here?
My master, continuing his discourse, said, “there was nothing that rendered the Yahoos more odious, than their undistinguishing appetite to devour every thing that came in their way, whether herbs, roots, berries, the corrupted flesh of animals, or all mingled together: and it was peculiar in their temper, that they were fonder of what they could get by rapine or stealth, at a greater distance, than much better food provided for them at home.
The curate might set as many chapters as he pleased for Catherine to get by heart, and Joseph might thrash Heathcliff till his arm ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together again: at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge; and many a time I’ve cried to myself to watch them growing more reckless daily, and I not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power I still retained over the unfriended creatures.
There is no help for it; your best chance will be to get by her as fast as ever you can, for if you dawdle about her rock while you are putting on your armour, she may catch you with a second cast of her six heads, and snap up another half dozen of your men; so drive your ship past her at full speed, and roar out lustily to Crataiis who is Scylla's dam, bad luck to her; she will then stop her from making a second raid upon you.
The deeds and the money for the business I’m going there for I can’t get by tomorrow," he answered.
That teaching, done right, requires all of a teacher's emotional and intellectual resources, that we accord teachers neither the respect nor the pay they need to function well in their jobs, that few public school teachers come close to the ideal or leave the students with anything like what they need to get by--all this seems like a good argument for better pay scales and reform in the educational system that produces teachers.
But I think you are right on target in pointing to the immense divide between wired-up, screwed-up America (which is where the money is), and a quieter America where men may suffer far less from identity crises because they are trying to get by rather than get ahead.
and a quieter America where men may suffer far less from identity crises because they are trying to get by rather than get ahead.
I'd be terrified if I thought that Congress will let this one get by without its usual far-sighted scrutiny.
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