Example sentences of "[vb past] to get a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today I tried to get a whole tin every day , it 's just because it happened . |
| 2 | The coefficient of correlation value is good , considering that we tried to get a mathematical relationship from a physiological response . |
| 3 | In the wake of a media flare-up over community advice agencies refusing to advise National Front activists , which affected both Union and the organization , a number of friends and colleagues , including us , took the issue to our National Conference and helped to get an anti-racism motion through . |
| 4 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 5 | It was while she was wiping her face that she began to get an uncanny feeling that she was being watched . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm a photographer , not a billionaire , so I needed to get a good idea going to pay for it all . |
| 7 | The rapid development of PACs started to get an increased level of press coverage in the 1982 elections and there were growing calls for reform . |
| 8 | He unwrapped the handkerchiefs , contrived to get a good amount of mud down his boots and pretended to make a bad landing from the monkey rope and was dispatched to the sanatorium with a suspected sprain . |
| 9 | As the hated capitalist rival , West Germany quickly took off with its economic miracle , for a long time East Germany remained poor , grim and repressive as the regime struggled to get a communist system working . |
| 10 | Her feathers were rippling up and down like leaves in the breeze as she struggled to get a secure footing on me . |
| 11 | Celia managed to get a lighted match to the fire . |
| 12 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 13 | In the street market he managed to get a wilting lettuce for Henry and Murgatroyd , reduced to fourpence . |
| 14 | ‘ I managed to get a full tank . |
| 15 | Programmers Vektor Grafix managed to get a fair amount of graphical speed from the C64 to provide an accurate conversion of the popular arcade machine . |
| 16 | Yes , they were quite an elite band of brothers , but it was possible to break into the circle , and eventually by a stroke of luck and a bit of help from one of Vincent 's crew who took pity on me , I managed to get a short spell of leave relief on HMRC Vincent . |
| 17 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 18 | Nothing daunted , the reactor personnel managed to get an extra pump working by the space-age technique of forcing open a valve and jamming it with a steel plate , though this had the distinct disadvantage of immobilising all of the other safety systems . |
| 19 | I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel . |
| 20 | She participated in the founding of the League of Nations and was on the Council , though she failed to get a racial equality clause inserted in the League 's charter . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly the threat of library dissolutions , especially those which librarians were claiming had been forced on them by government cut-backs , failed to get an immediate response from Mrs Thatcher 's administration . |
| 22 | He failed to get an expected promotion and started drinking heavily . |
| 23 | Mr Jimmy Airlie , secretary of the Ford union side , said : ‘ We expected to get a favourable majority . |
| 24 | The Archdeacon liked to get a sequential narrative . |
| 25 | She hoped to get a new home and take her baby back . |
| 26 | As for Eddie — well — this journo had to get a new gerbil . ’ |
| 27 | Before before we could get nationalization , we had to get a Labour government . |
| 28 | Lifestyles remained simple but identification with the masses was impossible if kids had to get a decent education . |
| 29 | Well I thought you had to get a certain amount |
| 30 | Had to get a blinking day off did n't he , that bloke ? |