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My son is reading a book "Dear Olly" by Michael Morpurgo. I saw the following comment(feedback) by one of the reader's on the last page.
"My daughter got to Michael Morpurgo's Dear Olly before me. 'This is excellent,' she informed me gravely. And it is...We both cried buckets."
What do "got to" and "before" mean in the above?

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My son is reading a book "Dear Olly" by Michael Morpurgo. I saw the following comment (feedback) by one of the ~~reader's~~ readers on the last page.
"My daughter got to Michael Morpurgo's Dear Olly before me. 'This is excellent,' she informed me gravely. And it is...We both cried buckets."
What do "got to" and "before" mean in the above?

When you are in a race, the person who gets to the finish line before everyone else is the winner.

to get to here means to arrive at.
before means in advance of or at an earlier time than.

My daughter got to the book before me.
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My daughter got access to the book before I got access to the book.
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My daughter got a chance to read the book before I got a chance to read it.
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My daughter read the book before I read the book.
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My daughter read the book, and then I read the book.

CJ

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