Example sentences of "have tried get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has tried to get hold of him . |
| 2 | Yet it is plainly obvious to anyone who works in central London , or has tried to get admission to hospital there , that this is untrue . |
| 3 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 4 | In the last few days they have behaved impeccably and had tried to get FIDE to give the rights to the new organisation . ’ |
| 5 | Leonard had tried to get Elizabeth , his London girlfriend , to take the bold step of departure to Greece , but she had refused . |
| 6 | She had heard already from the girls how Luke had tried to get Maggie to go to England to learn nursing against Moran 's fierce opposition , how their older brother and Moran had fought , and when Maggie yielded to Moran and stayed , Luke had gone on his own without telling his father . |
| 7 | The firm 's owner had tried to get funding from the IFI but could n't even get the application form . |
| 8 | As one of them related to Yakovlev , he had tried to get straw from his brother in a nearby village when he ran out of lighting-fuel , but officials had stopped him , since he was stealing ‘ from the poor … there 's sucilizm ( sic ) for you ’ , Ivanovka Soviet on the other hand was managed by no obvious clique , and the very few rich peasants had no general influence in the village , which contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones . |
| 9 | I have tried to get information about premature ejaculation from magazines and I have thought about going to see a Harley Street specialist about this . |