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a1632 A. Hildersam CLII Lect. Psalme LI (1635) cxl. 735 As their tryals shall increase, so shall their strength increase to beare and get through with them.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 2 Apr. (1895) X. 245 So home, and to my accounts which I cannot get through with.

a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. i. xv. 72 It is easy to design and begin an enterprize, but very often difficult to get through with it.

1839 A. Constable Let. 4 Feb. in J. Constable Corr. (1962) 306 Your Uncle Golding's affairs I have not got through with yet.

1870 B. Harte Luck of Roaring Camp & Other Sketches 2 Bets were freely offered and taken..that ‘Sal would get through with it’.

1878 Scribner's Monthly 15 866/1 You would be surprised to know the number of books young girls manage to get through with.

1888 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Ladies' Gallery II. xii. 234 I must have had pretty well all the heart-throbs a sinful man could get through with.

1893 Punch 29 Apr. 199 Don't know how I should get through with my work, if I were tied down to eight hours a day.

1941 D. F. Swenson tr. S. Kierkegaard Concluding Unscientific Postscript ii. ii. 146 It is not the zealous individual but only the restless one who manages to get through with life before life gets through with him.

1961 F. O'Connor Let. 21 Jan. in Habit of Being (1980) 427 When the psychiatrist got through with her, her emotions flowed magnificently and she believes nothing and herself is her God.

2010 J. Wendt Nice Work vii. 178 If you didn't get through with the sculpture that was one thing; if you didn't get through with building your character that was another.