Example sentences of "try to get in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , when word got out that Hurley again had a drawerful of money to pay for information , everybody in Beirut would try to get in on the act , making things up if they had to . |
| 2 | They may have tried to get in at another address without success . |
| 3 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 4 | I prop a chair against the iron door every night , so that at least I shall know if he tries to get in without my hearing . |
| 5 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |
| 6 | East Stand ) Neither of them are now at leeds , one is playing in the USA and the other is dossing around for a year ( so he says ) before trying to get in with a lower division club . |
| 7 | I opened my eyes at fucking five to six and I could see him at the window Ken ran then across the road and he says Dawn your brother 's been trying to get in for ages . |
| 8 | Indeed , the business is so popular that professional pornography producers are trying to get in on the action with their own ‘ amateur ’ videos . |
| 9 | The US and Japan pretty much have the microprocessor design business to themselves , but now it looks as if Taiwan 's government-backed Computer & Communication Research Laboratories is trying to get in on the act . |
| 10 | Certain men have been trying to get in on the politically correct act for a while . |
| 11 | Were there any other rival boatmen , people trying to get in on the scene ? |