Example sentences of "try to get [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Haden , headmaster of Wymondham College in Norfolk and chairman of the Boarding Schools Association , tried to get beyond dismal economics in his speech to the conference : ‘ I want to move on this week from value-added to added values … we need confidence in the values , moral and spiritual , which our schools uphold and celebrate ’ , he said . |
| 2 | I cooked and ate and even washed up ; tried to get into some music and resisted the temptation to open a bottle of wine . |
| 3 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 4 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 5 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 6 | When he runs , you can see , you can feel , how hard he has tried to get to this position of being the fastest sprinter in Europe . |
| 7 | Residents say party-goers trying to get across adjoining land . |
| 8 | That 's the whole point of repackaging that I was trying to get across this morning . |
| 9 | the number of people that are trying to get towards this sort of diet that I 'm on . |
| 10 | ‘ An entire army could drown trying to get into this place . |
| 11 | ‘ Even so , I 've been trying to get to this level for seven or eight years , even though I knew that people liked what I did . |
| 12 | Any fan trying to get from one end to the other would have to pass through this area and would be immediately arrested . |
| 13 | One trying to get in one side and the other one I think that 's what it was was n't it ? |
| 14 | ‘ You were seen trying to get in last night , Mr Glynn . ’ |