Example sentences of "be try to get a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We 're trying to get a conversation out of you and you 're grunting ! |
2 | people , they 're trying to get a trip done , Aspect of Love |
3 | I 'm trying to get a home together . |
4 | And I 'm trying to get a defence on the bogies . |
5 | You know , I 'm trying to get a promotion here ! |
6 | What I 'm trying to get a feel for is the level at which it is a consideration . |
7 | The fleet of balloons studding the Swindon skyline took second place to the collision but the organisers were trying to get a message across . |
8 | I am trying to get a sighting of them eating cornflakes and drinking twelve — fourteen — sixteen nineteen bottles of wine . |
9 | We are trying to get a group together to travel to the Southampton match ( maybe … nothing definate just yet ) . |
10 | And there are also foreign firms , Netto and Aldi , who are trying to get a toehold here . |
11 | So if I may , I would like to negotiate to one or the other if if you will agree er to that , to try and get us a dance group , we 've been trying to get a dance group for years |
12 | ‘ I have been trying to get a video of the game for the past four or five years , but I have never had any success . ’ |
13 | talking to one of these receptionists today and she says erm she 's been trying to get a bit of erm , she 's split up with her husband , trying to get , a bit of extra money together , you know , to be , she 's got her own house like , buying her own house and all this and that she 's fell into a bloody modelling job and saying get yourself a passport and er on about sending her off to either the South of France or Kenya |
14 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
15 | at some of the things he says , and you agree with other things he says , but when there 's nobody else who 's is trying to get a message over to the general public . |
16 | The significance of this will be apparent when it is realized that , while the sportsman is trying to get a sight of the tiger , the tiger in all probability is trying to stalk the sportsman , or is lying up in wait for him . |
17 | For the scene when Benjamin is trying to get a room key , Nichols suggested that Dustin find in his life what was the most painful thing for him to do that had a sexual connotation , in a public way . |
18 | He 's trying to get a bit closer . |
19 | The sort of ghost everyone knows about is the sort who goes haunting because he 's trying to get a lifer to do something for him , like revenge his horrible murder , or discover the hidden treasure , or find a will that 's been lost . |
20 | If she 's trying to get a reaction she 'll double her efforts |
21 | Yes , he was trying to get a divorce but he could n't . |
22 | Mark Williams , freelancing out of It , did some work , and fresh out of Oxford , Jonathon Green was trying to get a job in Fleet Street . |
23 | He was trying to get a picture of the life that Steve and Ephraim had had together . |