Example sentences of "[conj] he [modal v] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to go somewhere where he could be alone — where he could get some peace . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't let him hear you say that , ’ she said , ‘ or he 'll get his guns out and demonstrate the ‘ Border spin ’ and the ‘ Road Agent 's shift ’ . ’ |
| 3 | It was a shed hand actually , he did n't , was n't responsible for cash although he helped the cashier and er , I well remember this erm in those days the conductor used to either run into depot with the bus or he 'd get relief on the Cornhill , he walked down to the depot carrying his cash in his cash bag and then he 'd sit in the paying in room and he 'd laboriously cam carried out his cash , piling the pennies into stacks , the ha'pennies , the tokens , the sixpences , every denomination . |
| 4 | He 's tried direct flights and so on but he thought four hundred pounds , four hundred and fifty was a bit much although he 'll get the villa so cheaply . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A teenager who thought that he 'd won more than a hundred thousand pounds on a bet has today been told that he 'll get just seven hundred and twenty eight pounds . |
| 7 | The Foreign Office says he 's decided not to appeal against the sentence in the hope that he 'll get home more quickly . |
| 8 | Is he confident that he 'll get the naturalization ? |
| 9 | Was he ever worried that he might get stuck with teenage roles ? |
| 10 | Later in the night , as she lay crying at his side , he bade her for God 's sake to stop snivelling , so that he might get to sleep . |
| 11 | As his series of meetings progressed , some at Chartwell , some in London , there was even fear on the part of Jones and Davidson that he might get a settlement in the absence of the Prime Minister and thus damage Baldwin 's position . |
| 12 | She thought that he might get killed . |
| 13 | He had come alone deliberately in the hope that he might get farther with Maurice Glynn by keeping the interview in a low key . |
| 14 | His mother came , but she did not take him away , and his Uncle Charlie told him that if he wrote another letter like that he would get a thrashing , so he stayed and coped . |
| 15 | He was an attorney at law who , when he first began his practice , bragged , according to Gilbert 's Parochial History of Cornwall , ‘ that he would get an estate by the law one way or the other . |
| 16 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 17 | Perhaps Cromwell , when he passed , also found the door of Coldingham Priory locked and decided that he would get in anyway , even if it meant removing a whole wall in order to do so . |
| 18 | Mr and Mrs Jonesy apologised to Dad for their son 's behaviour and promised that he would get ‘ what 's comin' to 'im when we get 'ome ’ . |
| 19 | Accordingly his mother told him that he would get an extra sweet at lunchtime and another after tea for spending longer with his toys . |
| 20 | Tom Foley , the speaker of the House of Representatives , has said that if the president were to ask for the authority to use force , there is a presumption that he would get it . |
| 21 | In her opinion , it was unlikely that he would get a place at Cedars at such a late stage in the year . |
| 22 | So far as Richard was concerned if his father was eventually going to insist that he give up his conquests then it was at least possible that he would get better terms if he approached Philip directly and offered to abide by the judgement of the French court . |
| 23 | An Owen West title , so expect about two-thirds of the sales that he would get for a new one . |
| 24 | There was no chance at all that he would get the upper hand . |
| 25 | He did not think that he would get away with it . |
| 26 | That way , a business man making an investment would know that he would get his money back within four years . |
| 27 | It had not materialised , sterner counsels had prevailed , but people had been consulted , people with files and knowledge as well as hatred , and Terence had gone to bed happy in the supposition that he would get revenge , and soon . |
| 28 | In the second-half he appeared to be on a mental walkabout , at one point kicking direct into touch from a free-kick , forgetting that he would get no territorial gain . |
| 29 | He has already told McCoist , for instance , that he would get the number of goals Rangers ' top scorer has if he were playing at Ibrox . |
| 30 | There was many 's a tramp that would have taken the A nine then but this one in particular and he was very very fond of him and he would ask when he was around to that he would get over to see him . |