Example sentences of "[vb past] to get into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the first evening the young men got drunk and tried to get into a nightclub but were refused admission . |
| 2 | Last night the cricketer said the incident happened as he tried to get into a pub . |
| 3 | Policemen struggled briefly with the women as they tried to get into the embassy . |
| 4 | But when he tried to get into the maternity wing he found the doors were locked . |
| 5 | He tried to get into the wrong car-park and was , inevitably , confronted by a Lord 's gateman who succeeded in making far from happy . |
| 6 | Women who tried to get into the car park without a pass this morning were allowed through the barrier , but council officials warned them that they could face disciplinary proceedings if they try again tomorrow . |
| 7 | Last night Mr Roseberry said : ‘ I was hit as I tried to get into the pub . |
| 8 | he tried to get into the house Rhys were |
| 9 | As kite rallies began to get into the full swing of a tightly packed annual diary of events from the early 1980s , so a new trend developed . |
| 10 | Some of us decided to get into the social and talk to the men . |
| 11 | After which , I decided to get into the leather producing industry rather than the purely merchanting business and I joined as a director of the main board . |
| 12 | As the Merseysiders struggled to get into the match , Beagrie picked up a short corner on the left and let fly with a tremendous swirling drive that ricocheted into the net off the post . |
| 13 | As Sergeant King struggled to get into the car of a passing motorist , Vernage continued his attack , plunging his knife again and again into the policeman . |
| 14 | I managed to get into a weir pool where the surface current was vicious but to my amazement found that the water under the surface was almost totally still ! |
| 15 | First , the complete omission of ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ ( This may seem surprising , given that the text managed to get into the quarto , even if late ; but as a continuo song it could , at a pinch , have been accompanied by the harpsichordist from a separate sheet , with a gamba player reading over his shoulder . |
| 16 | Erm the inspectors used to come round and it was the number of pupils he managed to get into the county school that added a lot of points to his record . |
| 17 | ‘ What is the difference between David Mellor and the England team ? — David managed to get into the Spanish box . ’ |
| 18 | Despite high fences and danger warning signs , children managed to get into the remains of Lyppard Grange at Warndon in Worcester and use it as an adventure playground . |
| 19 | She added : ‘ I managed to get into the footwell . |
| 20 | The pound kept falling , Tony Benn failed to get into the shadow cabinet and 70 per cent of Britoil shares failed to find buyers . |
| 21 | The lift they entered was crowded , forcing them to stand close together , the brush of Luke 's jacket sleeve against her bare arm adding to the difficulty of trying to sort out what she was going to say to him before she agreed to get into the car with him . |
| 22 | A. T. If you wanted to have a smoke — we used to have smokes : we were n't angels by any means — you had to get into a shop doorway , put your cigarette in your mouth , strike a match , shield it with your hand , and then blow the match out and then your hand would go up your sleeve . |
| 23 | Both were well loaded to Machynlleth , but the bulk of the passengers at this time of year are headed for Aberystwyth and on the Tuesday I was surprised to see a lightly loaded train consisting of two 156 units go on to Pwllheli while the crowd on Machynlleth had to get into a 153 . |
| 24 | ‘ We had to get into the stable very early in the morning to feed and braid up the horses . |
| 25 | Authors had to economize in the number of illustrations they used , and readers had to get into the habit of turning a number of pages to find a relevant picture . |
| 26 | She would have to phone her grandfather and tell him , she said , and she had to get into the van for her purse . |
| 27 | Thieves broke into two premises in Drury Lane , Braintree , and attempted to get into a third.They stole £1,000 in cash and cheques from a dry cleaners , and £130 cash from a hairdressers . |
| 28 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |
| 29 | ‘ If I wanted to get into a fight , I could pick one behind any pub in Luton any night I wanted , ’ he says , only half jokingly . |
| 30 | However , it was pointed out that some incomers wanted to get into the traditional game but were not succeeding . |