Example sentences of "[noun] trying get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover and had a laugh trying to get Peter Greenaway to loosen up . |
| 2 | He had been touring in the liberated areas trying to get agriculture going again . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the boys and girls at Microsoft are working 70 and 80 hour weeks trying to get NT out as soon as possible . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the boys and girls at Microsoft are working 70- and 80-hour weeks trying to get NT out as soon as possible . |
| 5 | There were no problems today with the photographers , unlike yesterday when England officials publicly clashed with a New Zealand TV crew trying to get close-ups of Lawrence suffering . |
| 6 | No just private people trying to get work . |
| 7 | But if we fail with that argument , I 'll be over in Europe trying to get tariffs on all European vehicles brought over here , because I believe in reciprocity just like the EC believes in it . |
| 8 | Under a lot of pressure trying to get quarts out of pint pots and I think y you you 've suffered the same way . |
| 9 | That 's right , yeah she 'll be going through all the same thing trying to get money |
| 10 | You 'll have difficulty trying to get hold of a bike or a canoe in the Tatras . |
| 11 | There 's also a shot of doomy love interest ( Keaton trying to get fellow addict Katy Baker off ) and dopey oedipal sparring ( Keaton trying to get counsellor M Emmet Walsh on ) , but in the end any attempt at getting a fix on using as a way of life is elbowed puritanically aside . |
| 12 | She was wearing trousers and as she kept her feet on the ground she felt reasonably secure , at least ; she kept her toes on the ground and spent a rather hilarious time trying to get control of it in the courtyard , her attempts bringing Marguerite out with words of advice and wide smiles . |
| 13 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 14 | I can remember going about in waders , with tractors trying to get houses dry . |