Example sentences of "[v-ing] to get [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The late night movie on BBC2 was the shot-in-Newcastle thriller Payroll , starring Billie Whitelaw as a widow swearing to get even with the armed robbers who shot her husband during a security van robbery . |
| 2 | Or even , when it was apparent that we were not going to get anywhere with the local government , the whole neighbourhood would get together on a Sunday to work putting in the drains or paving the streets . |
| 3 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |
| 4 | Beginning their new season in the third division of the Paisley & District League , the Stoddard Carpets football team are fighting to get back into the second division where they were last year . |
| 5 | Something brown was fighting to get out of the bright green of the marsh . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're trying to get away from the rowdy image . |
| 7 | But after a while she became involved in a quarrel with them , and was trying to get away from the angry group , when Alec d'Urberville rode by . |
| 8 | ‘ I am trying to get through to the Islamic Foundation , ’ went on Ali , ‘ to warn them of what is going on here . |
| 9 | ‘ Hello , operator , I 'm trying to get through to the Kosher butcher — it 's on the blink and I 've people coming for dinner Friday — Oh , thank you , dear . |
| 10 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |
| 11 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
| 12 | She wanted to kneel down next to her friend but felt that she would be trying to get close to the untouchable . |
| 13 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 14 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 15 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |
| 16 | He rasped , ‘ Are n't you longing to get back to the bright lights ? ’ |
| 17 | But what happens when you grow tired of it , Aurora — what happens when the novelty fades and you find yourself longing to get back to the bright lights of show business ? |