Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] get [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to Northampton to try and get a mortgage . |
| 2 | I had to try and get a bit of kip on the crumbling sofa with a torch in one hand and a big bit of four by two in the other , ready to whack any of the mice if they came out to get us . |
| 3 | They added it , I should have known , to try and get a younger audience and it was n't well understood by the people who wrote it . |
| 4 | Do n't over-oil leather — once every month to six weeks is plenty — and do n't use boot polish to try and get a shine . |
| 5 | In order to try and get a ‘ Northern English accent ’ , Dustin went to see the Beatles in A Hard Day 's Night about a dozen times determined to ‘ sound like those guys ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's so unfair on other ex-prisoners who genuinely need help and who need to be decently dressed in order to try and get a job . ’ |
| 7 | I still do n't think there 's enough sexual equality because erm , a couple of years ago I studied mechanics , and when I left college I found it very , very difficult to get on a mechanics course so I 'm back again doing computing to try and get a job . |
| 8 | The object of these exercises was sometimes to try and get a change of policy , sometimes to indicate alarm should certain lines of policy be carried further and sometimes so that the critics can signal their feelings to sections of the party outside Parliament ( Left-wing MPs , for instance , use this method to get support in the annual elections to the National Executive Committee of the party from activists in the constituencies ) . |
| 9 | ‘ He also said he was going to try and get a bicycle , and that he would give us a ride on the handlebars . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He 's going into Swindon to try and get a job . |
| 11 | In order to try and get a resident 's permit for the car you are so generously letting me have temporary use of , I need a mass of bumf for the Regional Council in due course — they require sight of , and in original , car registration documents , MOT certificate , insurance certificate , driving licence , evidence of ownership or tenancy lease of this house ( ! ) plus evidence of payment of property tax ! |
| 12 | It is often a good idea to try and get a continuing working relationship with an orthopaedic surgeon who can provide reports quickly . |
| 13 | I was wearing I had the , the stethoscope behind my neck and I took it off for something , I was holding it up to try and get a better |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm going to try and get a job with a view to eventual partnership . ’ |
| 15 | I would love to get in touch with Peter to try and get a copy . |
| 16 | You 're allowed to if you got the ball and you run to try and get a try . |
| 17 | So he 's , he 's now doing er A level psychology and G S C E sociology at night school whilst he is keeping his days free to try and get a job which is not easy anywhere |
| 18 | Right cos what it is erm we 'd like if , if possible to get like a daily list of who 's due to appear on Pebble Mill where pop stars and T V stars are worth a damn sight more in newspapers than ne hard news these days it er should n't be a bad idea for us to try and get a , get in on who 's , you know , who 's coming in to appear . |
| 19 | We 're just going up to Eastgate Bike Shop to try and get a cable that just snapped |
| 20 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |
| 21 | Secondly , if a horse is aggressive towards us , it is better to try and get the horse to accept the fact that we are the boss horse , not by punishing it , but by teaching it something . |
| 22 | Roy Inman , manager of the British women 's team , said : ‘ I think Pierantozzi got quite a shock at the worlds in Barcelona last summer , and she wants to try and get the measure of Kate before they meet at the Olympics . ’ |
| 23 | On 31 October 1936 armed Nazis attacked a Polish home at Schönbrun , near Danzig , and Marian Chodacki , the Polish Commissioner General in Danzig , had to intervene to try and get the police to bring the trouble-makers to court . |
| 24 | He has issued a notice of motion , taken out to try and get the sale of the house set aside . |
| 25 | If something 's gone wrong , then we have to try and get the girl out while she 's still alive , if she is alive . |
| 26 | There 's like a challenge to try and get the most out of your mind and body in a sport which I think is as international as any other . |
| 27 | Some want Taligent to go with Mach 3.0 instead of Opus-for-openness , and to try and get the stuff out earlier , even if it were to mean having to tie up loose ends as it went along . |
| 28 | Mother used some washing soda to try and get the stain out but it did n't work . |
| 29 | ‘ How else was I to try and get the location out of him ? ’ |
| 30 | And the main thrust of our campaign was to try and get the D , to get the D H S S to accept that as an entity , as a tower block , was hard to heat , so that the tenants would automatically get it . |