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get back

Phrasal Verb with get
 
 
/get/ verb (present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got, US gotten)

Definition

to return to a place after you have been somewhere else: By the time we got back to the hotel, Lydia had already left.
(Definition of get back from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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