Example sentences of "been trying get a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if I may , I would like to negotiate to one or the other if if you will agree er to that , to try and get us a dance group , we 've been trying to get a dance group for years |
| 2 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
| 3 | Mrs Draper says they 've been trying to get a larger home for years . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been trying to get a video of the game for the past four or five years , but I have never had any success . ’ |
| 5 | talking to one of these receptionists today and she says erm she 's been trying to get a bit of erm , she 's split up with her husband , trying to get , a bit of extra money together , you know , to be , she 's got her own house like , buying her own house and all this and that she 's fell into a bloody modelling job and saying get yourself a passport and er on about sending her off to either the South of France or Kenya |