Example sentences of "make a [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts . |
| 2 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 3 | I think we should make a serious effort to get some progress on this thing . ’ |
| 4 | Rain made a mental note to get Holly to follow up the story next day , she could visualize it leading the column on Friday unless anything better turned up . |
| 5 | Penny made a mental note to get cold food from the delicatessen when she invited Glenda back . |
| 6 | I suppose that because she had n't really known me from an early age , she made a tremendous effort to get to know me later . |
| 7 | I mean they were pretty shambly when I got to them and I made a supreme effort to get everything going the way I wanted it to go . |
| 8 | In September 1977 the second wave of terrorism by the Baader-Meinhof gang reached its grisly climax : the businessman Hans-Martin Schleyer was kidnapped and murdered ; Palestinian and German terrorists made a vain bid to get Baader and others released from prison , by hijacking a Lufthansa airliner ; and when German police forcibly put an end to the hijack Baader and his colleagues committed suicide . |
| 9 | Knox made a desperate bid to get in front at the last corner but Martin held his line and emerged the winner . |
| 10 | But , realising that it was n't very good manners to sit there bemoaning her lot , she made a huge attempt to get over her disappointment , and trotted out lightly , ‘ Oh well , perhaps it 's fortunate that I find Mariánské Láznë quite an enchanting place . ’ |
| 11 | Having said the BMC made a bad move getting involved , the fact remains that access is now a major issue for mountain users ; not due to the traditional problems of a landowner barring access — there is much less of that these days . |
| 12 | While Cato was still alive the Roman governing class made a determined effort to get to know the Celts better . |
| 13 | If you like hanging out washing rather than drying it in the bowels of an expensive machine , you will need to tuck away a line and make a dry path to get to and from it . |
| 14 | The staging of the Democratic convention in New York spurred the city into making a concerted effort to get the homeless people off the streets , and people who lived in the shanty town were evacuated , their homes cleared by bulldozers . |
| 15 | The estranged wife of the Marquis of Blandford says he 's making a real effort to get back on the straight and narrow . |
| 16 | Gloucestershire cricketer , David ’ Syd ’ Lawrence is making a last-ditch attempt to get back to full fitness after his knee injury . |
| 17 | She discovered she was a split second too late in making a hurried scramble to get off the bed , because , in the next instant , Naylor was there with her , pinning her down with his body . |
| 18 | She had needed to make a real effort to get up today at all . |
| 19 | ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Four clubs have asked me to play next season , and I 'm going to make a big effort to get fit again . |