Sentence examples for attempting to get something from inspiring English sources

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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.

The two will now dance the ballet of predator and prey and by that I mean the moose does that weird kicking, spinning thing that quadrupedal animals do when attempting to get something off them or scratch a forbidden section of their body.

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

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.

This is a rare week indeed in Washington, since it is one of those weeks when Congress actually attempts to get something done.

A few participants reported that children can also fall from a table or chair while they attempt to get something from up high.

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

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

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.

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".

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.

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