Example sentences of "[that] they might get " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he explains in the ‘ Epistle to the Reader ’ , he began it after a discussion in which it occurred to him and his friends that they might get further with the problems which concerned them if they were first to ‘ examine our own abilities , and see , what objects our understandings were , or were not fitted to deal with ’ . |
| 2 | Somehow I never dreamed that they might get involved , especially as they are in London . |
| 3 | The Founders had always thought that they might get some pension-fund money . |
| 4 | They would like to be able to be caring within limits , and without the fear that they might get overwhelmed or taken for a ride . |
| 5 | Similar to ( age-related ) personal allowance , the married couple 's age-related increases are subject to a couple 's income so it is possible that they might get less than the full addition — or maybe nothing extra at all . |
| 6 | Then lie suggested that they might get Arthur Pugh , the moderate leader of the steelworkers who was that year 's chairman of the TUC , to come down to Chequers for tea and an exploratory talk . |
| 7 | They discussed for a moment the possibility that they might get into dreadful trouble but discounted it . |
| 8 | The Imperial 's staff , torn between a natural amour propre that a rival team had been imported to cook for the Prince of Wales and relief that they would not be responsible for royalty 's displeasure ( yet with the ignoble hope that they might get all the credit ) , watched anxiously to ensure that the incoming team was competent . |
| 9 | They seemed to know when the tragedy of the previous night had occurred , and had maybe come to the theatre in such numbers in the vague hope that they might get a repeat showing . |
| 10 | It was felt that they might get into all sorts of trouble abroad , so we were , informally , encouraged to marry rather than burn , as it were . |