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 | In 1988 , when a Conservative backbencher , Robert Adley , tried to get diplomatic relations restored , Foreign Office ministers briefed him on British preconditions . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Name of Consortium — should we try to get professional help with this ? |
| 7 | Dealers would try to get other dealers sacked from rival firms , even if they had worked with them once . |
| 8 | ‘ We try to get decent venues , good DJs , and make sure that people enjoy themselves . |
| 9 | They 're being taught in a converted pigsty while staff try to get retrospective planning permission for the school . |
| 10 | Although often not practical , try to get dual experience at sorting out the landing after low final turns or upset approaches . |
| 11 | Feminist psychology tries to get round women 's occasional lower scores on such traits by suggesting how , with the right experience and environment , they could measure up to the male-oriented norms . |
| 12 | But let's talk for a moment about how one actually tries to get low temperatures . |
| 13 | When I 've been down there trying to get casual work , you know in Leith docks ? |
| 14 | We are trying to get Salvadorean women to start asking questions about the role society has traditionally assigned then , . |
| 15 | Erm , there are a number of issues , there are three separate issues there 's the C A B issue , which I remember for years trying to get additional staff funded in the North Wiltshire C A B from from this council and we could n't afford it then and we ca n't afford it now . |
| 16 | Things started working out a bit better , but towards the end of ‘ 85 everything started getting too much ; the pressures , trying to pay my bills and trying to get extra money in . |
| 17 | There 's also a shot of doomy love interest ( Keaton trying to get fellow addict Katy Baker off ) and dopey oedipal sparring ( Keaton trying to get counsellor M Emmet Walsh on ) , but in the end any attempt at getting a fix on using as a way of life is elbowed puritanically aside . |
| 18 | I try and make women 's history clearer , because obviously they 've done history A level so they 've probably learnt about wars and all the male sort of things , so what women were doing and thinking and the way in which that has been suppressed ; as much as possible I like to teach by not putting very much of what I think across but trying to get other people to produce it … also encouraging them to share as an experience and personal responses and talking about things one would n't normally talk about in the department , the emotional side of things , in quotes ‘ irrational ’ , ‘ intuitive ’ and all of that , and valuing that … try and make it a space where people can say whatever they want to say ; I suppose value things that would not be valued elsewhere . |
| 19 | You criticize aid agencies for trying to get affluent people interested in the welfare of Third World poor , without offering practicable alternatives . |
| 20 | It also puts money into the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association which is wholly involved and has been for the last two years in trying to get large scale erm strategic inward investment into the county , and erm it is a erm awkwardness I think that it 's best to be open about that the planning policy of the county is out of tune with the day factor activities of the economic development side of the of the county council . |
| 21 | They had two children , the son , a motor engineer was forever trying to get old motorbikes to function , his greasy overalls being quite out of tune with the cleanliness of mother 's shop . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Essex Euro MP Anne McIntosh said she was trying to get American Airlines to change its mind about withdrawing from Stansted . |