Example sentences of "[vb past] get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bail arm button at the front is responsive and I found gets better with use . |
| 2 | Green 's playtime involved getting pissed with the locals during leisurely lock-ins in the village pub , and intentionally losing touch with the big bad world of the music business . |
| 3 | mentioned get some of the staff . |
| 4 | However , I never tried to get professional help , and that may well have been a mistake . |
| 5 | We had an expensive meal and tried to get drunk , but the evening had a forced feel to it as though it had been written on Orders that we would , compulsorily , enjoy ourselves . |
| 6 | Adventurous Spartan generals — Kleomenes , Pausanias the Regent , Brasidas , Lysander — tried to get extra soldiers from the nearest source , their own country 's helots . |
| 7 | ‘ I first tried to get that kind of raspy voice that comes when the vocal cords have broken down . |
| 8 | And she said , I tried to get that father- in-law there , she says , and I tried to get that for my daughter and I could n't find , could n't get it . |
| 9 | And she said , I tried to get that father- in-law there , she says , and I tried to get that for my daughter and I could n't find , could n't get it . |
| 10 | In 1988 , when a Conservative backbencher , Robert Adley , tried to get diplomatic relations restored , Foreign Office ministers briefed him on British preconditions . |
| 11 | He tried to get angry . |
| 12 | I tried to get most of my work done today so that I would not have so much to do on the weekend . |
| 13 | I tried to get most of them out . |
| 14 | Back in England , BA union officials who tried to get more information about who was on board found computer records of the passenger list had disappeared . |
| 15 | In the face of growing crisis , Gorbachev tried to get more and more power transferred to himself in order to rule by decree . |
| 16 | This recalls the sort of impression referred to by Wierzbicka , Quirk et al. , Dixon , and Bolinger quoted above : ( 2 ) He tried to get free . |
| 17 | The first type of usage , that where the infinitive is non-realized ( He tried to get free ) , would appear to arise when the movement denoted by to is not carried to its end-point , i.e. when only the beginning of the movement signified by to is actualized : The second type , where the sense is rather that the infinitive 's event is actually realized ( He managed to get free ) , seems to arise where the speaker has actualized the whole of the movement signified by to , thus reaching the point where the realization of the infinitive event takes place . |
| 18 | I crawled into my trench , adjusted the camouflage square over my face and head , curled myself into a ball and tried to get some sleep . |
| 19 | Manescu leaned forward , tried to get some impression of the shape behind the glass . |
| 20 | I Tried to get some cleaning help but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 21 | ‘ At that time I tried to get some cleaning help , but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 22 | We always tried to get some payment to them before a term started |
| 23 | She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats . |
| 24 | And tried to get some settlement , but I do n't believe it are giving us any settlement cos he was n't prepared to do anything like that . |
| 25 | We left the smell of the pub behind , and I tried to get some of the fresh air through my head . |
| 26 | Fabia pulled the duvet up over her head and tried to get some sleep . |
| 27 | I tried to get some compensation but only managed to get a little … and that was six years afterwards , which was no use at all . |
| 28 | I tried to get some of the Blu-Tak off . |
| 29 | I tried to get some pizza things as well . |
| 30 | I tried to get this message on to the network by sending to but the seems to screw things up . |