Example sentences of "trying get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fleet Street , which has been spending millions for years trying get the formula right , holds the opposite point of view . |
| 2 | Yes and there 's a bird on the roof and he was trying get up there |
| 3 | By now , the reader may be on his way to deciding that this is the better world of the two , and to wondering if the poet is trying to get his own back . |
| 4 | Patrick held both hands up in a gesture of peace , he smiled for a moment ; I 'm no trying to get at you personally but I just fucking feel that you cant expect the teacher to be the everything , the heavyweight boxing champion of the world . |
| 5 | I was in there last night trying to get some ideas for Volunteers Day . |
| 6 | I 'd been trying to get into training since I was fourteen . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , but as I keep trying to get through to you , I do n't want to teach any more . |
| 8 | Consequently , first thing in the morning when we were all trying to get ready , we constantly got in each other 's way . |
| 9 | ‘ I had this crazy idea of trying to get to Rome . |
| 10 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 11 | After the pilot 's personal safety , the safety of the aircraft must be the next most important consideration ; it is always safer to land out than to risk trying to get back with marginal height . |
| 12 | One superintendent , keen to control the length of hair of his men , used to shout angrily at his probationers and young officers : ‘ are you trying to get a bloody transfer to join those long-haired yobs in the drug squad ? ’ |
| 13 | And he had seemed almost to be currying favour when he was tumbling out the story of his family 's lost lease , trying to get Cameron to agree that the lairds were done for now . |
| 14 | All climbing up the stairs in one mad rush trying to get out of the hell-pit of the London Underground tunnels , after having escaped from the claustrophobic strangulating suffocating hold of the London Underground Tubes , marginally cleaner but less picturesque than those of New York . |
| 15 | All in all , Bobby Robson must have found it about as fruitful as a day trying to get in touch with Brian Clough . |
| 16 | She has faced an unusual problem , however , in trying to get a licence to trade as a recruitment broker . |
| 17 | Forced to convene yet another extraordinary meeting by sacked directors trying to get back on the board , Amalgamated Financial Investments has sent out a suitably apologetic letter to shareholders . |
| 18 | McEnroe 's autumn slog through Europe , which will include a trip to Wembley for next month 's Silk Cut Championships , is designed for one purpose : ‘ I 'm trying to get myself prepared for the Masters , hopefully to do well . |
| 19 | The Conservative Party is trying to get its green credentials in order , as witness Mr Patten 's emollient interview with Brian Walden on ITV yesterday . |
| 20 | ‘ So , given that I have a political opportunity , I tend to become an enthusiast harnessing the forces that are at work , trying to get the best out of them , trying to use them for the political purposes that I believe in . |
| 21 | The quarry had a bad reputation , but we are trying to get involved in the local community and are improving the image of quarrying . ’ |
| 22 | He was trying to get custody of their only child . |
| 23 | A middle-aged woman from St Helens said : ‘ Mr Lawson does n't seem to bother trying to get it across , but then most Chancellors are like that . |
| 24 | A HUNDRED years ago , Gladstone celebrated his 80th birthday vainly trying to get himself and the Liberals back into power . |
| 25 | Propping up the pound is like trying to get water to run uphill . |
| 26 | Even the washing hanging from the tenement windows seemed to be fluttering a welcome as we all struggled to our feet , pushing and shoving , as we attempted to get our packs on our backs , at the same time trying to get a clear view of the platform and the hundreds of people watching the train pull in . |
| 27 | You 'll have difficulty trying to get hold of a bike or a canoe in the Tatras . |
| 28 | The lodgers in the house were interesting — Indian and Siamese students trying to get into the university . |
| 29 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 30 | The way to find it was not by diplomacy and negotiation ( though these had their part ) , still less by razzmatazz and public relations , but by trying to get nearer to God . |