Example sentences of "[vb past] to get [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 2 | Robyn headed the jeep up the by now familiar track to the barn and tried to get herself into the right frame of mind . |
| 3 | But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter . |
| 4 | But every time we came up with something we never seemed to get it beyond the initial idea , and then suddenly someone else would come out with it ! |
| 5 | Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front . |
| 6 | A trip to the local agent found they had not got one in stock , but I managed to get one for a P6 car . |
| 7 | I managed to get her into the car and drove her back to her aunt 's in Hastings . |
| 8 | If she still managed to get anything in the way of a book published he would persuade some friends to provide bad reviews . |
| 9 | ‘ What intrigues me most of all is how you managed to get someone like the editor of the New York Times to agree to back up your cover story . ’ |
| 10 | Cliff liked to get her in a corner but she liked to sit in the middle . |
| 11 | According to Major-General John Strawson 's A History of the S.A.S. Regiment , its soldiers had to get themselves to the target ‘ by any means from submarine to caique ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Above all , the British industrial revolution was a regional phenomenon ’ ( Pollard , 1981 ) ; but often pioneering regions , four declined soon after they had made their vital contribution ( Cornwall , Shropshire , North Wales and the Derbyshire uplands ) , while two more ( Tyneside and Clydeside ) had to get something like a second wind to survive as centres of expanding metal industries and shipbuilding . |
| 13 | But I could n't let go of him , I had to get him to the cops . |
| 14 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 15 | They wanted to get them into a union , lots of ideas about what they could do for you . |
| 16 | I brought him it , erm , a lunch box with a flask in , I said , look this flask you suck it like a straw , so get him to take that everywhere with him cos then he can have that , then he , cos you said you wanted to get him off the bottles , cos you put the straw in that |