Sentence examples for attempt to get something from inspiring English sources

Eammon Holmes flails around, sweating and gurning in an attempt to get something – anything – from him.

I created the Breck Foundation and the hashtag #playvirtuallivereal to attempt to get something good out of all this.

All crime has the nature of a smash and grab raid; it is an attempt to get something for nothing.

With slight changes the line could be applied to the Starr attempt to get something on the President that will justify his years of investigation.

Representative Charles B. Rangel, Democrat of New York and chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said, "I cannot conceive of this as an olive branch, as an attempt to get something done".

A judge blocked that policy from going into effect, and the administration revised the order in an attempt to get something in place that would pass legal muster.

He got almost no help from his receivers, who repeatedly dropped catchable passes, and paid the price for his attempts to get something going by throwing two interceptions.

In an odd way, their attempts to get something by repeating over and over the same old lies and misdirections — we're not practicing extortion, he's just refusing to negotiate!

Attempting to get something back before half-time, Sale's Mike Haley ran into a Wasps wall and was lifted off his feet by a combination of Bradley Davies and, to a much lesser extent, Wade.

Yes, after many years of frustrated attempts to get something going in Vegas he does have that hotel there, but it's a hotel off the strip, and it lacks a casino.

The mind games between the two men come to echo the relationship between Truman Capote and Perry Smith, the subject of In Cold Blood – a dance in which each attempts to get something out of the other.