Example sentences of "try to get [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to get closer to them . |
| 2 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 3 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 4 | In football , there was an early shock for Liverpool at Anfield as the champions tried to get back to the top of the table with Arsenal playing Leeds United at Highbury tomorrow . |
| 5 | Finally she tried to get down to some more serious work , first skimming through a book about castles she had brought with her , then sketching ruined towers , broken archways and towering keeps . |
| 6 | Erm and we 're attempting to try to get over to people please please think before you get a pet . |
| 7 | ‘ I really ought to try to get up to the farm to fetch our Carrie down . ’ |
| 8 | Now this had happened he would have to try to get closer to her , make a fresh start … |
| 9 | Hastings began to try to get back to its pre-war holiday resort living . |
| 10 | It was a short-term solution to try to get back to winning things . |
| 11 | Are you still going to try to get back to England this summer ? |
| 12 | She parked her car with the ever-present worry about her mortgage on her mind and was , in a weak moment , of the opinion that she should try to get through to Naylor Massingham that she was not his cousin 's girlfriend , and to explain the innocence of Travis staying the night at her flat . |
| 13 | Only once did Tess try to get closer to her husband . |
| 14 | But before I take up that theme let me try to get closer to the ground . |
| 15 | Ten months is quite long enough to wait and you should try to get back to the specialist for another course of the ‘ kick-start ’ treatment . |
| 16 | He believes it is time to re-group and try to get back to the negotiating table . |
| 17 | You 're not telling me this Council driver ca n't go any quicker cos he 'll try to get back to before , before twelve o'clock |
| 18 | I did n't consciously try to get close to the original sound , but I think my style has always been fairly close to Eric 's anyway , plus I generally use a Strat in the studio . |
| 19 | ‘ Is it not the time when all those who have an interest in our industry should sit down and discuss our future together and try to get back to the situation where the industry controls and governs itself instead of allowing it to be manipulated by those who purchase our product ? ’ he asked about 200 delegates . |
| 20 | In spite of your good looks you put men off once they try to get close to you . |
| 21 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 22 | Most of them are indeed trying to pull the ‘ off with the old , on with the new ’ wife replacement technique but they are in such an emotional mess that they subconsciously drive away any woman who tries to get close to them . |
| 23 | I always think that if someone tries to get close to me they must want something from me . |
| 24 | Yes it 's it 's it was one of the er advertisements or programmes that went out on radio er again this is why I 've been trying to get over to people the sad things that have to happen to animals . |
| 25 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 26 | We staged with the Sultan of Oman and Muscat , and Salalah , and I can recall one evening a hit of a commotion , when one of the Wapiti crews of No 55 Squadron caused an uproar by trying to get on to the roof . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , but as I keep trying to get through to you , I do n't want to teach any more . |
| 28 | It 's like a dream in which we 've been trying to get through to people and we 've represented this by seeing ourselves locked inside our homes , desperately trying to get out . |
| 29 | Under the system customers can be alerted , while they are using the phone , that another caller is trying to get through to them . |
| 30 | I 'll ring off now in case he 's trying to get through to you . |