Example sentences of "[vb past] to get [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tried to get them for Felling , but lost out to Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 3 | St Chad 's College in Durham , which was then a theological college , tried to get him as its Principal . |
| 4 | Limeking went down as if shot , and his rider Pat Buckley desperately tried to get him to his feet as the horse , flanks heaving , lay in a mess of thorn and fir and mud . |
| 5 | Well anyway , whatever I I tried to get him to erm , cos I 've written again to the newspaper , I 've tried to get him to confess that , that the unions are the biggest because erm , even then I said to tell him well supposing that we could get , I said , erm you know the money to support you , I said just supposingly I said would be private vet , and he said what you dare say they would have to have there . |
| 6 | They tried to get him to America you see . |
| 7 | Although one of them tried to get him to America . |
| 8 | Jesus , if you knew how hard we tried to get her off that damned powder . ’ |
| 9 | Tried to get us to stey up fur a slow wan . |
| 10 | Robyn headed the jeep up the by now familiar track to the barn and tried to get herself into the right frame of mind . |
| 11 | But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter . |
| 12 | Donated by a kind benefactor at some stage and affectionately known as " the old bomb " , it always seemed to get them to country open airs and cottage meetings but took exception to a trip to Sydney for a Congress . |
| 13 | But every time we came up with something we never seemed to get it beyond the initial idea , and then suddenly someone else would come out with it ! |
| 14 | The big-spending Hollywood myth retains its influence and the Zombie cast were well looked after by Steenway Productions , with cars organized to get them to and from the set . |
| 15 | It had wheels on the bottom and a handle inside , which he turned to get him from place to place . |
| 16 | Driving to the office , she strove to get herself under control once more . |
| 17 | Her story was plastered all over the December issue of Playboy and every time he switched on the television , she was there repeating it all as a multitude of chat-show hosts clamoured to get her on their programmes . |
| 18 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 19 | Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front . |
| 20 | I struggled to get him into bed and he started to do deep breathing exercises , which he knows I ca n't stand when I 'm trying to get to sleep . |
| 21 | Perhaps only barely by then , until she managed to get something behind her , the reserve , the " something put by for a rainy day " which neither she nor anyone else in her hand-to-mouth world could ever quite hold together . |
| 22 | I even managed to get one on my honeymoon in Corsica . |
| 23 | A trip to the local agent found they had not got one in stock , but I managed to get one for a P6 car . |
| 24 | I managed to get one in flight . |
| 25 | Somehow the Customs officers managed to get me on board their boat , with Herbert and Startop , but our boat sank , and the two convicts had disappeared . |
| 26 | When the day came I got up very early and managed to get myself into what was almost the front row of the crowd , immediately underneath the platform in Piazza Unità where he was to appear . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's off today , sir , but I managed to get her at her flat . |
| 28 | I managed to get her into the car and drove her back to her aunt 's in Hastings . |
| 29 | The lifeboat crew administered first-aid to the fisherman and despite the problems they managed to get him on board their vessel and return him to shore . |
| 30 | Carrington managed to get him to one side long enough to ask him what the airman had said . |