Example sentences of "[noun] try get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when Vronsky tried to get Anna to re-enter society , she suffered more from loneliness and her situation just got worse as she got deeper and deeper into the role of a fallen woman . |
| 2 | I am especially grateful to my hon. Friend the Minister for Roads and Traffic , who has paid particular attention to the problem over recent months to try to get things right . |
| 3 | Mr Edgar tried to get hold of the key , but she threw it quickly into the hottest part of the fire . |
| 4 | Allchin tried to get revenge by responding that if fairytales were true Jobs 's nose would have grown . |
| 5 | Then , one of them went to a cash machine to try to get money from her account . |
| 6 | He did The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover and had a laugh trying to get Peter Greenaway to loosen up . |
| 7 | He had been touring in the liberated areas trying to get agriculture going again . |
| 8 | Like many in her profession , her work is intermittent , and with her permission , in August we asked Robert to try to get hold of her employment details . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the boys and girls at Microsoft are working 70 and 80 hour weeks trying to get NT out as soon as possible . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the boys and girls at Microsoft are working 70- and 80-hour weeks trying to get NT out as soon as possible . |
| 11 | Emmie tried to get hold of him but he fought like the baby wild cat her mother had once been given to tame . |
| 12 | There were no problems today with the photographers , unlike yesterday when England officials publicly clashed with a New Zealand TV crew trying to get close-ups of Lawrence suffering . |
| 13 | If we are at an early stage of the work , still looking around for ideas and still perhaps ‘ hypothesis-seeking ’ , it is likely that we shall want to talk to people to try to get help , stimulation , new viewpoints , and so on . |
| 14 | John Major may be sitting in Downing Street putting out feelers to the 13 Ulster Unionist MPs , while from his house in Ealing Neil Kinnock tries to get Paddy Ashdown to answer the telephone . |
| 15 | No just private people trying to get work . |
| 16 | This is a typical problem that would come into one of our advice centres where a consumer has bought something , f failed to get any satisfaction from the shop and then has gone to the advice centre to er has found and tries to find the nearest Citizen 's Advice Bureau or Advice Centre to try to get advice . |
| 17 | The UFC tried to get universities bidding against one another for student allocations , by offering to educate them more cheaply than the competition . |
| 18 | But if we fail with that argument , I 'll be over in Europe trying to get tariffs on all European vehicles brought over here , because I believe in reciprocity just like the EC believes in it . |
| 19 | The girl , of Pitsea , Essex , has spent 14 hours a day with two specially trained policewomen and a counsellor to try to get information on the rapist . |
| 20 | Under a lot of pressure trying to get quarts out of pint pots and I think y you you 've suffered the same way . |
| 21 | That 's right , yeah she 'll be going through all the same thing trying to get money |
| 22 | You 'll have difficulty trying to get hold of a bike or a canoe in the Tatras . |
| 23 | Major Burrows suffered a great deal with asthma and had taken leave from the corps for a year to try to get control of the symptoms which were becoming chronic . |
| 24 | Soon after the Persian Wars , as we saw on p. 23 , King Leotychidas of Sparta led an expedition to Thessaly , and ended the tageia of the Aleuads ; at about the same time , Plutarch says , there was a Greek , perhaps a Spartan , fleet at Pagasai , whose strategic importance we have just noticed , and the Spartans tried to get control of the Amphictyony ( see p. 33 ; Plut . |
| 25 | He was the investigator in the Whitley Strieber case , and reveals that although they were friends , they have now fallen out , mainly because Strieber tried to get Hopkins to delay his book about the abduction phenomena — he though it might hurt the sales of his own book . |
| 26 | Stella tries to look after her sister showering her with compliements to try to get Stanley to ‘ understand her and be nice to her . ’ |
| 27 | There 's also a shot of doomy love interest ( Keaton trying to get fellow addict Katy Baker off ) and dopey oedipal sparring ( Keaton trying to get counsellor M Emmet Walsh on ) , but in the end any attempt at getting a fix on using as a way of life is elbowed puritanically aside . |
| 28 | She was wearing trousers and as she kept her feet on the ground she felt reasonably secure , at least ; she kept her toes on the ground and spent a rather hilarious time trying to get control of it in the courtyard , her attempts bringing Marguerite out with words of advice and wide smiles . |
| 29 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 30 | I can remember going about in waders , with tractors trying to get houses dry . |