Phrasal-Prepositional Verbs — Get Around To & the GET Family (C1)

After putting it off for nearly three years, Hannah had finally got to writing the short family history that her late grandmother had asked her to compile. (one word)

Once everyone had collected a coffee and exchanged the usual pleasantries, the chair invited the meeting to get to the substantive items on the morning's agenda. (one word)

After the brief pause to confirm fire-alarm procedures, the seminar speaker urged the room to settle back so the panel could get with the second half of her presentation. (one word)

I need to discuss the revised proposal with my own finance director before I can confirm anything in writing, but I will get to you within the next forty-eight hours at the latest. (one word)

Despite calling the helpline five separate times during the course of Monday morning, Sara had still not managed to get to a real person about the disputed direct debit on her account. (one word)

What on earth has the cat been getting to in the back garden this afternoon — there are feathers all over the patio and the bird feeder has been knocked clean off its post. (one word)

Marcus had been quietly trying to get of attending his second cousin's wedding because he knew an old colleague he had fallen out with would be at the same reception all evening. (one word)

It has been a particular source of irritation to senior colleagues that the new finance director has so far managed to get with refusing to provide her own three-year forecasts to the board. (one word)

Despite a famously difficult start when they first joined the same project, the two senior partners now get with each other so well that the rest of the team sometimes finds it almost suspicious. (one word)

Diane was on the point of phoning her aunt in Cambridge when she remembered she had never actually got around replying to the long letter that the same aunt had sent her over three months earlier. (one word)

The deputy chair quietly suggested that, given the time of evening, the committee might want to get on voting on the amendments rather than continuing to debate them point by point. (one word)

Sophie was utterly convinced that her older brother had only included the embarrassing photograph in the family newsletter in order to get at her for having teased him relentlessly at the New Year's party. (one word)

The new chief executive lost no time at all in setting a wholesale reorganisation of the company's European operations within just three weeks of his arrival in post. (one word)

Once the children were finally upstairs and the dishwasher was running, Carla settled to the long evening of essay-marking she had been quietly dreading since Friday afternoon. (one word)

I keep meaning to write a proper thank-you note to your parents for that lovely weekend in Norfolk, but somehow I never seem to get to it. (one word — BrE preferred variant)