Example sentences of "be [verb] get hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm trying to get hold of you this afternoon for the following reasons ( listed in case we do n't manage to talk ) : |
| 2 | Control were trying to get hold of him , to verify that he had accidentally triggered his window alarm . |
| 3 | Great , I 've been trying to get hold of you . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sorry miss , but the station has been trying to get hold of you for several days , ’ he interrupted . |
| 5 | ‘ Finally , I 've been trying to get hold of you since yesterday afternoon ! |
| 6 | ‘ That 's why I 've been trying to get hold of you . ’ |
| 7 | As you know , I 've been trying to get hold of you all week . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past half-hour ! ’ |
| 9 | I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been trying to get hold of you to see what all this nonsense is about . |
| 11 | I 've been trying to get hold of him |
| 12 | you know what I 've been trying to get hold of a couple of one of these you know the phones , the phones that Donald 's got |
| 13 | but erm she 'd been trying to get hold of George I think for about two hours . |
| 14 | What we can do is attempt to get hold of the rules of the game so that we can make sense of a game as it is played . |
| 15 | ‘ My brother is trying to get hold of some penicillin . |
| 16 | The sound of a gun being cocked ; whoever it was had got hold of his antique gun . |
| 17 | Mr Johnson said : ‘ To be honest , I thought he was going to get hold of one of us . |
| 18 | Mr Johnson said : ‘ To be honest , I thought he was going to get hold of one of us . |
| 19 | ‘ I was trying to get hold of their coach to stop him from going back to Italy in a casket . |
| 20 | The lady who I was trying to get hold of who 's actually got the contract that er we want amended , for some reason I . |
| 21 | You can break it down further , you can add in things here about what somebody wanted , okay , what somebody was trying to get hold of , what they wanted , and also perhaps what they wanted to avoid . |