Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] he [verb] to get " in BNC.

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1 The nine-year-old tearaway was arrested when a driver caught him trying to get into his car by sliding through the sunroof .
2 Pillion passenger Mark Arrol said he tried to get his brother to stop .
3 Now Mr MacCari says he wants to get back to concentrating on his job at Stoke City .
4 The boy elbowed him trying to get him off .
5 Benny knew he had to get William out of the smoke before he did anything else .
6 all well and good , but for twenty year , we should n't be talking about this , when I was in Ireland a couple of years ago the skew over overseer said he had to get rid of his television for the same reason , he er could n't turn it up
7 Not once in the long years had he attempted to get in touch , to correspond with a daughter he had been all too ready to abandon .
8 But Mr Major said he wants to get back in .
9 The man convicted of murdering pregnant housewife Marie Wilkes says he hopes to get bail so he can be set free .
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