Example sentences of "[vb past] to get [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 9 | But it seemed that Sister Benedicta must sin a lot because she always seemed to get the dirty jobs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was while she was wiping her face that she began to get an uncanny feeling that she was being watched . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But in the summer of 1862 anxiety began to get the upper hand . |
| 16 | He began to get the odd feeling of doubt . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm a photographer , not a billionaire , so I needed to get a good idea going to pay for it all . |
| 19 | ‘ We made it difficult for ourselves , but we needed to get the early breakthrough , ’ he added . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Her feathers were rippling up and down like leaves in the breeze as she struggled to get a secure footing on me . |
| 24 | Celia managed to get a lighted match to the fire . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the street market he managed to get a wilting lettuce for Henry and Murgatroyd , reduced to fourpence . |
| 27 | ‘ I managed to get a full tank . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |