Example sentences of "that [pers pn] might get " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 2 | ‘ I always thought that I might get into meteorology later , but of course you never do , ’ says Alison without too much regret . |
| 3 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm keeping my fingers crossed that I might get a bit of it to strengthen the squad . ’ |
| 5 | Pulled between the conflicting impulses , I ought to resist the craving which dulls the awareness which moves me to abstain , because for me that is a causally necessary condition of obeying ‘ Face the fact that you might get cancer ’ . |
| 6 | And that happened each day till Thursday and then , by then , you were delivering what had come back from the Monday , hoping that when you delivered , and collected the money of course , that you might get something else tt , which I were n't too bad a salesman really . |
| 7 | Now we 've not done aggression , so there 's absolutely no way that you 're expected to know anything about it , but that 's a typical question that you might get on a social psychology paper . |
| 8 | Their Inasia Shampoo Bars cost £2.25 and the only snag is that you might get muddled on the side of the bath and mix them up with the soap . |
| 9 | But there is nowhere else that we might get our conception of the physical world from , other than perception . |
| 10 | We thought it possible that we might get an auto-immune reaction otherwise — similar to that which occurs when a patient rejects a heart or kidney transplant . |
| 11 | The situation was only just controllable , but it seemed that we might get to bed before midnight without being beaten up . |
| 12 | I always held that view and did all I could to press for an election before Christmas in order that we might get a majority large enough to stand the racket . " |
| 13 | ‘ It is also possible — so unpredictable is the Law , even with a special jury as we would have — that we might get less . |
| 14 | And we 've written back that we might get money from but can we use it for I E buying chairs and other things or for the general welfare . |
| 15 | Oh I think it 'd be nice to have a video , because like , when Rebecca gets older erm cos I personally , my own feelings are that we might get Charles as King , but after Charles there wo n't be anything cos they 'll do away with them . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Somehow I never dreamed that they might get involved , especially as they are in London . |
| 18 | The Founders had always thought that they might get some pension-fund money . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They discussed for a moment the possibility that they might get into dreadful trouble but discounted it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There 's also the problem that it might get nicked . |
| 27 | Was he ever worried that he might get stuck with teenage roles ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She thought that he might get killed . |