Example sentences of "try get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I never tried to get professional help , and that may well have been a mistake . |
| 2 | Adventurous Spartan generals — Kleomenes , Pausanias the Regent , Brasidas , Lysander — tried to get extra soldiers from the nearest source , their own country 's helots . |
| 3 | ‘ I first tried to get that kind of raspy voice that comes when the vocal cords have broken down . |
| 4 | In 1988 , when a Conservative backbencher , Robert Adley , tried to get diplomatic relations restored , Foreign Office ministers briefed him on British preconditions . |
| 5 | Back in England , BA union officials who tried to get more information about who was on board found computer records of the passenger list had disappeared . |
| 6 | I tried to get some compensation but only managed to get a little … and that was six years afterwards , which was no use at all . |
| 7 | And tried to get some settlement , but I do n't believe it are giving us any settlement cos he was n't prepared to do anything like that . |
| 8 | I crawled into my trench , adjusted the camouflage square over my face and head , curled myself into a ball and tried to get some sleep . |
| 9 | Fabia pulled the duvet up over her head and tried to get some sleep . |
| 10 | I tried to get some pizza things as well . |
| 11 | We always tried to get some payment to them before a term started |
| 12 | Manescu leaned forward , tried to get some impression of the shape behind the glass . |
| 13 | I Tried to get some cleaning help but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 14 | ‘ At that time I tried to get some cleaning help , but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 15 | She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats . |
| 16 | I tried to get this message on to the network by sending to but the seems to screw things up . |
| 17 | This is an important point of principle given that Mr Bell was accused of using his contacts to try to get cheap labour for a family business . ’ |
| 18 | I came across a number of cases where , in an attempt to increase their chances of employment , people had returned to college to try to get better qualifications . |
| 19 | ‘ It has to be in our interests … for us to try to get more jobs in West Belfast … that is the way in which we will reduce the terrorist menace , by making people economically independent from terrorism . |
| 20 | No doubt the hon. Member for Cardiff , North shares a problem that I have , which is that , unfortunately , it is the most difficult thing imaginable to try to get any recompense in respect of property damaged in this way . |
| 21 | The purpose of these questions was to try to get some sense of the spaces occupied by each discipline , how well that space was defined , and to what extent disciplinary identity or integrity was a matter of epistemological structure ( unifying theories , concepts , methods , etc. ) or a more elusive matter of disciplinary ‘ culture ’ , involving academic norms , ethos or styles . |
| 22 | The idea there is to try to get some reduction , some reduction in the level of traffic at peak hours and to help public transport . |
| 23 | Mr Samuel Skinner , the secretary of transport , will be in Europe later this month to try to get foreign carriers and governments to foot some of the bill for the new bomb-detecting machines . |
| 24 | ‘ You should try getting more sleep . ’ |
| 25 | Name of Consortium — should we try to get professional help with this ? |
| 26 | I will try to slant my handwriting to be more adult like , I will try to get many merit points , I will try to get at the top sets for every lesson you are in the top sets for every lesson do well in them , I want to carry on my good progress in the sports area , I do many sports now and I want to do more |
| 27 | Dealers would try to get other dealers sacked from rival firms , even if they had worked with them once . |
| 28 | Good nothing wrong with that , nothing wrong at all , now I think rather than set you something new , it 's better to , try to get another bar . |
| 29 | But how did I try to get this influence over working men ? |
| 30 | If you think I am wrong , then fine , but you must know it 's bollocks , he must know it 's bollocks , so why must you even try to get this point across in a publication that has such a big influence on budding , enthusiastic players , a lot of whom have no other contact with the rock establishment ? |