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Sun 30 Oct, 2011 11:23 am
Context:
The snow was due to stop falling in New England late Sunday, but it could be days before many of the more than 3 million without electricity
see it restored, officials warned. The storm smashed record snowfall totals for October, and several officials called its ferocity historic.
More:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/winter/story/2011-10-29/october-snowstorm-northeast/50996734/1
In this instance, 'get' is not essential to conveying the meaning, nor does it add anything else, such a sense of immediacy, to the sentence.
Joe(less is more)Nation
because the main thought in the clause is:
before / many / see it/ restored
'Get' in such a place was frowned upon by my English teachers. Ugly, sloppy, redundant.
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