Example sentences of "he [modal v] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sergeant Joe 'll see yer sprain do n't get worse , 'e 'll get the doctor in if it does . |
| 2 | Farvver Murphy at the church 'as promised us some paint , an' whitewash fer the ceilin 's , an' one o' the lads knows where 'e can get all the timber we need , no questions asked o' course . |
| 3 | Anyway , surely someone like him could get hold of condoms if that 's what he wanted . ’ |
| 4 | And I said anyone ringing up D and telling him would get £25 . |
| 5 | If there are four candidates in a constituency — Conservative , Labour , Liberal Democrat and Scottish Nationalist Party — and if thanks to the AV the Labour candidate is elected , first votes given to him will get 100% political representation in the constituency and first votes given to the other three candidates will get none at all : a strange sort of PARR , just like the sort our present system provides ! |
| 6 | He may get muddled , and perhaps put dirty clothes into the oven instead of the washing machine , or food into the dustbin instead of the saucepan . |
| 7 | If he has had a very good recovery , he may get onto the plinth at a low height and kneel on all fours , and then be guided downwards to lie on his stomach . |
| 8 | In this wind he dare not extend his front arm since he may get pulled over , so instead , he is crouching low and leaning slightly forwards which achieves the same upright rig effect as Ken had . |
| 9 | Is n't there a good chance he may get a scholarship ? ’ |
| 10 | Even if he is trying to attend to the perspectival appearance presented to his point of view he may get it wrong . |
| 11 | There 's a chance he may get in touch with you . ’ |
| 12 | If he pleads guilty and begs for the mercy of the court , he may get off with a fine and deportation . |
| 13 | Of course , being in the army , he may get posted abroad one of these days and I do n't know if I want to leave London — it 's such jolly good fun now I 'm out . |
| 14 | Though Behr did n't profit directly from his work on the show , he may get to write the book of the show . |
| 15 | Yesterday Slaven said of Colin 's ambitions : ‘ Everyone can dream and he may get his dream it 's a strange game . |
| 16 | If he is lucky , he may get one of the party heavyweights to come and support him , in which case he will probably attract a bigger crowd . |
| 17 | but he may get it over and above after six months depending what |
| 18 | The Civil Service in Britain has always this feeling that the problem with a specialist is that he may get too committed to his specialism . |
| 19 | It 's the race of his life and he should get the result of his life . ’ |
| 20 | I think he should get a hearing aid — it 's easier than shouting all the time . |
| 21 | It 's bad enough that he should get two things wrong about what is perhaps one of the best known poems in the English language . |
| 22 | If Mr Moynihan is keen to hang on to his job he should get on to FIFA now and tell them to make the booking . |
| 23 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 24 | I was slightly surprised that he should get to the front so early , in his other races he 's usually slow to get going . |
| 25 | John Cassevetes got the part and thus ended Nicholson 's brief hope of a major starring role , and provided further incentive to the prevailing thought that he should get out of acting . |
| 26 | Axelrod had already begun to think in ESS terms , but I felt that this tendency was so important that I wrote to him suggesting that he should get in touch with W. D. Hamilton , who was then , though Axelrod did n't know it , in a different department of the same university , the University of Michigan . |
| 27 | Even then , if at all possible , he should get up for meals . |
| 28 | His greatest concern was that I should be strong and brave , good at games , good at work , and that he should get his money 's worth from my education . |
| 29 | I did n't see why he should get away with it so I decided to make his day for him . |
| 30 | Perhaps he should get in touch |