Example sentences of "[conj] try get a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Or try to get a copy of GUIDE PATROL . |
2 | If you have overseas students in the room below who cook curry at all hours , you really have only two choices : learn to enjoy curry or try to get a room change . |
3 | The main aim at the moment for Landreth and his two cohorts , bass-player David Ransom and drummer Ken Blevins , is to make the most of their first major-label release and to try to get a support slot with a suitable big name . |
4 | Ana asked softly , and Maggie took a deep breath and tried to get a smile into her voice . |
5 | I think just to answer that the , the pitch , because obviously I looked into this , and tried to get a reduction , |
6 | This is not simply to enable the vet to work in comfort , or even to reduce his rage when the first words are ‘ I will just go and try to get a rope on her ! ’ |
7 | ‘ I 'll nip out and try to get a street guide . ’ |
8 | Nobody in this band holds their role above the old minstrels , or the court fools who used to offer diversion and try to get a smile . |
9 | Having heard of the firm of Boulton & Watt and their new engine , he decided to travel to Birmingham and try to get a job with the firm at their Soho Manufactory . |
10 | He rocked to and fro , feeling the basket creak and trying to get a sense of its condition . |
11 | While the politicians were pre-occupied with the death penalty and corporal punishment in the late 1950s and early 1960s , the civil servants were paddling in the mainstream , adjusting to the implications of the increased volume of crime and trying to get a grip on what was to become a perennial problem for the next quarter century , the growth in the number of persons appearing before the courts charged with criminal offences . |
12 | She was trailing behind the other two and trying to get a grip on her nerves . |
13 | erm from where people are actually living and trying to get a nights sleep . |