Example sentences of "trying to get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of my ladies would like to go to bingo and I 'm in the process of trying to get a member of staff free , so she can go . |
| 2 | And then a bit of a roundabout route coming back , trying to get a variety of road , and any areas of the drive which we can look at , we will , discuss amongst ourselves , practise one or two things , maybe one or two little techniques . |
| 3 | He rocked to and fro , feeling the basket creak and trying to get a sense of its condition . |
| 4 | She has faced an unusual problem , however , in trying to get a licence to trade as a recruitment broker . |
| 5 | Yes , he was trying to get a divorce but he could n't . |
| 6 | The significance of this will be apparent when it is realized that , while the sportsman is trying to get a sight of the tiger , the tiger in all probability is trying to stalk the sportsman , or is lying up in wait for him . |
| 7 | And I will continue to pursue trying to get a contact with Clive in Liverpool and probably have the tape recorder and tapes returned from my father . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been trying to get a video of the game for the past four or five years , but I have never had any success . ’ |
| 9 | So if I may , I would like to negotiate to one or the other if if you will agree er to that , to try and get us a dance group , we 've been trying to get a dance group for years |
| 10 | people , they 're trying to get a trip done , Aspect of Love |
| 11 | I am trying to get a sighting of them eating cornflakes and drinking twelve — fourteen — sixteen nineteen bottles of wine . |
| 12 | I still ca n't make up my mind what exactly to do about trying to get a university place or something like it , and I would feel better , I think , if we could talk about what you said when I visited you . |
| 13 | We played late on the first day and I went round in the morning spotting the pin positions , trying to get a feel for the course so I could give the right information to Nick . |
| 14 | What I 'm trying to get a feel for is the level at which it is a consideration . |
| 15 | Here , there was a boy there who was n't 'alf a saucebox , he was always trying to get a look at me legs and drawers — ’ |
| 16 | We would like , for instance , to see : — An architect trying to get a pram in through the tiny front porch of the modern house . |
| 17 | I 'm trying to get a home together . |
| 18 | And I 'm trying to get a defence on the bogies . |
| 19 | Trying to get a freebie ? |
| 20 | A man trying to get a wardrobe through the bedroom window over there . |
| 21 | that 's what I said to Ron , I mean I 've never known I ca n't remember the last time I when I used to work for Colin for ten years trying to get a holiday out of Colin was like trying to get blood ! |
| 22 | You know , I 'm trying to get a promotion here ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She sat there for nearly half an hour , staring at the wall , trying to get a grip . |
| 25 | She lay sleepless for so long — trying to get a grip on the situation , convincing herself that one kiss , one evening that held all the trimmings of romance had no real value — that she awoke late . |
| 26 | She was trailing behind the other two and trying to get a grip on her nerves . |
| 27 | Jessica breathed deeply , trying to get a grip . |
| 28 | Can can I just say that I think it 's interesting that Mao 's sort of targeting the local tyrants and the erm the evil gentry I mean because you could , you could ar argue that basically the landlords are only trying to get a return erm which is , which is equal to what they can get if they invest all their money in or you know erm or whatever or big cities |
| 29 | ‘ I was just trying to get a couple of thoughts together , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Please try me at home on , before trying to get a message to me via the CPRW office . |