Example sentences of "they [modal v] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the fields below happen to be large , they may get down safely , but a safe landing is often due to luck rather than to good judgement . |
| 2 | They may get to one of these people if they get a record deal without a manager , and if their record is a mega hit , but that is very unlikely . |
| 3 | Although they may get flattened by a rainstorm , they quickly recover once the sun comes out . |
| 4 | The aerosol droplets have to be just the right size : too big and they may get trapped in noses , too small and they tend to be exhaled without staying in the lungs . |
| 5 | To counter the first fear of specialisation , ‘ disabling ’ clients is certainly not the objective of casework , and advisers must resist the personal satisfaction that they may get from acting on behalf of a client when that client may well have been able to cope with assistance alone . |
| 6 | Burdened by the fear that some ‘ performance ’ , of which they feel incapable , is expected , and therefore that their ‘ manliness ’ is threatened , they may get so miserable and anxious that they realise their worst fears , by becoming unable to have an erection and then hiding behind the idea that ‘ I 'm an old man now , so what can I expect ? ’ |
| 7 | They may get away with a trick or two , but only for as long as nobody is watching too closely . |
| 8 | Repeatedly we are told that if its characters fail to resist the Shadow , they will be taken over , but if they do resist they may get killed ; similarly if they reject the vagaries of chance ( if Frodo for instance had refused to leave the Shire with the Ring ) , it 's likely something highly unpleasant will happen , but if they accept and obey things could grow even worse . |
| 9 | Is it to stop the rain spoiling their designer hairstyles or is it because they may get damp and catch the sniffles ? |
| 10 | They may get something . |
| 11 | If they will give the State the part of their collections considered by experts to be an important part of Russia 's national heritage , they may get permission to export the remainder . |
| 12 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 13 | On the next occasion they may get only as far as point C and so on until they are virtually unable to leave home . |
| 14 | All this is changing , there are courses and special training sessions available where both clients and public relations operators can be taught how to perform well on radio and they may get " real experience " at being interviewed by a TV or radio personality . |
| 15 | Two — when the laird complained that Pennant described how rents drained the Highland economies without saying how they should be refurbished , Johnson said , in effect , that Pennant was obliged to report , not to cure ; ‘ If I tell that many of the Highlanders go bare-footed , I am not obliged to tell how they may get shoes . ’ |
| 16 | Parties such as Plaid Cymru or the Green Party in Great Britain have no chance of controlling the government , although they may get members of parliament ( MPs ) elected and , in certain circumstances , have some say in making the government 's life easier or more difficult . |
| 17 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 18 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 19 | I think ( actor 's voice ) people who are not in this great business of ours think the idea of electronic messages flying around is really odd and they may get freaked if some of what is said is a bit inflammatory- maybe more so than if they saw it printed . |
| 20 | they may get they get sort of get a bad name and perhaps not |
| 21 | They may get up at ten or eleven . |
| 22 | I do worry slightly that if some child answers this in an O level exam paper in , what , let's see , two years time , that they may get marked down . |
| 23 | Well it 's raining tonight , but if they keep a good look out over the next year , because the sun 's particularly active now , then they may get a chance of seeing another display . |
| 24 | They ought to get to know each other , see a little of the place they are in , have time to shop for family souvenirs and sample the local food and culture . |
| 25 | They must get very discouraged . |
| 26 | They work as if they must get rich by the evening and die the next day . |
| 27 | They must get as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in . |
| 28 | They must get the sack to the Smoke . |
| 29 | In early retirement older workers have a socially acceptable alternative to the stigma of unemployment , that is not available to younger people ( Bruche and Casey 1982 : 112 ) ; but first they must get close to pension age . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , business in Hungary and the Czech and Slovak republics is going very well , Turner says , because their respective governments have told firms they must get their financial systems up to Western standards . |