Example sentences of "try to get [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 2 | Robyn headed the jeep up the by now familiar track to the barn and tried to get herself into the right frame of mind . |
| 3 | But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter . |
| 4 | European Tour , did their best to try to get us to the 1st tee . |
| 5 | I do n't think I can find her lodgings , but I could try to get her into a home . |
| 6 | I can try to get it from the British embassy in Moscow . ’ |
| 7 | He used to go to the station and watch the farmers coming in ; and if he saw a likely one or one he knew , he used to approach him and try to get him to a pub to have a drink and talk things over . |
| 8 | So try to get him to a point where he is agreeable to discussing the problem openly with you or else to go for some form of counselling . |
| 9 | Suppose you shoot a marble and try to get it across a hump in the ground . |
| 10 | Try to get it as a ‘ Dr Mumby does it again ’ , not just a patient story . |
| 11 | When he was well into his eighties , one of his housekeepers complained he had tried to get her onto the bed — at his age ! ’ |
| 12 | she 's been trying to get something for the mother of the bride . |
| 13 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 14 | I do n't want stop trying to get me in a |
| 15 | The room was rippling with the sounds of their scuffle as they fought in bitter silence , knocking into wooden furniture , she trying to get away , he trying to get her to the bed until they fell against a nightstand and it crashed to the floor . |
| 16 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 17 | ‘ She thinks they 're trying to get her into a home . ’ |
| 18 | no wonder it was , me dad was trying to get her into the house and everything and she said oh well so and so 's got me key well I said I 'm not bloody phoning er their Nora |
| 19 | Desperately she kicked backwards like a buck rabbit , trying to get him in the groin . |
| 20 | I 'm just trying to get them at the back did you know ? |
| 21 | Well , we 're still trying to get them through the Police Authority but we are making provision through this budget if we do n't , yeah |
| 22 | Which was something of a racket , plus Bazooka Joe kept on pulling the plugs on us trying to get us off the stage . |
| 23 | There was a large pool of unemployed in those days and it seemed to us that no sooner were you in than they were trying to get you off the job . |
| 24 | he gets fed up trying to get it on the drive |
| 25 | I wonder whether they were n't trying to get it for the museum . |