Example sentences of "[noun] try get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an important point of principle given that Mr Bell was accused of using his contacts to try to get cheap labour for a family business . ’ |
| 2 | Erm , there are a number of issues , there are three separate issues there 's the C A B issue , which I remember for years trying to get additional staff funded in the North Wiltshire C A B from from this council and we could n't afford it then and we ca n't afford it now . |
| 3 | Mr Samuel Skinner , the secretary of transport , will be in Europe later this month to try to get foreign carriers and governments to foot some of the bill for the new bomb-detecting machines . |
| 4 | They 're being taught in a converted pigsty while staff try to get retrospective planning permission for the school . |
| 5 | Feminist psychology tries to get round women 's occasional lower scores on such traits by suggesting how , with the right experience and environment , they could measure up to the male-oriented norms . |
| 6 | 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 . |