I couldn't get past his secretary.
You couldn't get past the pictures, could you?
From the time of Pyrrho overlapping Aristotle himself, who seems to have been well content to use the feints of more than one school among his predecessors, while showing that none of them could claim to get past his guard, down through a period in which the decadent academy under Carneades, otherwise dogmatic in its negations, supplied new thrusts and parries, to Aenesidemus in the late Ciceronian age, and again to Sextus Empiricus, there seems to have been something of plasticity and continuous progress.
I didn't get past the perfume counter.
No reassurance he'd be able to get past their history, no expression of wanting to be with her.