Example sentences of "[vb past] to get [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to get a better grip but to my horror my fingers began to run down the door like melting plasticine as I watched from my perilous vantage point . |
| 2 | In the UK it is easy to form the impression that if you tried to get a closer look at something like this someone in a uniform would break both of your legs . |
| 3 | Today I tried to get a whole tin every day , it 's just because it happened . |
| 4 | The coefficient of correlation value is good , considering that we tried to get a mathematical relationship from a physiological response . |
| 5 | For the colt always objected violently to having an iron shoe nailed on to its hoofs ; and sometimes the smith and his assistants were thrown about the trav ‘ us as they tried to get the young animal under control . |
| 6 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 7 | For many years all British clubs used 1,000 lb weak links which failed on any two-seater launch where the pilot tried to get the maximum height . |
| 8 | She helped to get the 90 workers reinstated that year . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He bent to get a closer look at one drawing that had been fixed lower than the others , as if the teacher had somehow tried to segregate it off and pretend that it was n't part of the display . |
| 11 | ‘ Who ? ’ asked the Sheikh and rose to get a better look . |
| 12 | Ms Starnes , who had once worked for him in the news department of WSGN Radio in Birmingham , Alabama , agreed at once that he should cover pending events in Libya for Mutual Radio and promised to get the necessary credentials to him within 48 hours . |
| 13 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 14 | But it seemed that Sister Benedicta must sin a lot because she always seemed to get the dirty jobs . |
| 15 | We all got a rough average of the scale and the standard of these people , but somehow or other and — I never understood why this happened — I seemed to get the occasional chaps that were given a last chance . |
| 16 | He was the son of Edward the Third , one of our more warlike kings , but he died the year before his father did , and that 's how we came to get the boy-king Richard the Second in thirteen seventy-seven . ’ |
| 17 | Several of the men in the street turned to get a better look at her and I could appreciate their point of view . |
| 18 | His eyes were squeezed tight in agony , and he and the other three men locked in the shafts grunted loudly with exertion as they strove to get the heavy carts rolling again . |
| 19 | It was while she was wiping her face that she began to get an uncanny feeling that she was being watched . |
| 20 | Alton were pinned to their own line at the beginning , but steadily their forwards began to get the upper hand and it was from a good pack break that full-back Carl Knight joined the line to score . |
| 21 | But in the summer of 1862 anxiety began to get the upper hand . |
| 22 | He began to get the odd feeling of doubt . |
| 23 | I changed over to a lure I 'd bought in Hobart , the aptly named Tasmanian Devil , and I began to get the odd flathead on it and not bad fish either . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm a photographer , not a billionaire , so I needed to get a good idea going to pay for it all . |
| 25 | ‘ We made it difficult for ourselves , but we needed to get the early breakthrough , ’ he added . |
| 26 | We formed an act and started to get a few dates . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Her feathers were rippling up and down like leaves in the breeze as she struggled to get a secure footing on me . |