Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may even get a job . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ At the same time , ’ he said , ‘ I must also get to know my colleagues on the Board as fast as possible . |
| 3 | This was reasonable ; there was a draught , and I should soon get used to the room being a little darker and my not being able to see the sunset and the lights of the town shining in the darkness below like a handful of diamonds . |
| 4 | Yeah but I should probably get a bit of today there , no problem . |
| 5 | Now I feel that I should just get on with it , do my studying , finish school , leave home , begin my ‘ future ’ . |
| 6 | yeah , but again I should just get some of these checked , every content , you know that the heading |
| 7 | And should it have the misfortune not to please these stupid Frenchmen , all would be over — I should never get another commission to compose … the devil himself must certainly have invented the language of these people — and I fully realize the difficulties with which all composers have had to contend . |
| 8 | Ca n't you see that if you were to say or do something that caused my father , for example , to die when he was still a little boy , then I should never get round to being born , should I ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I should really get dressed , ’ she responded . |
| 10 | yeah , but I should still get |
| 11 | However , I have been told that I should only get one , because they eat each other . |
| 12 | However , I have been told that I should only get one , because they eat each other . |
| 13 | We also have a number of collectors , one of whom I visited recently to discover a house so piled with neatly catalogued shoe boxes full of cards that I could not see how he and I might successfully get from the front door to the kitchen without a Sherpa . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you think I might eventually get a taste for alcohol ? ’ |
| 15 | If I can keep up the Peter Sellers act long enough without dying of laughing , I might just get meself a few pints out of it . |
| 16 | I think I might just get a couple of nice hankies to go with them . |
| 17 | I might even get to the office and be measured and out again before the first of the boys arrived . |
| 18 | Hell , I might even get a lawyer . |
| 19 | I might even get a couple of hours sleep before we reach London . |
| 20 | Who knows I might even get a chance to try one of these days . |
| 21 | And I believe there 's some roadworks at Stafford , I might even get on my teletext and look and see what roadworks are on the M six , I may even give the A A a ring , to say , but it 's all on teletext and this sort of thing . |
| 22 | For an instant she told herself she had imagined the almost feral glint behind the long , dark lashes as Niall said casually , ‘ If I did n't know better , I might almost get the idea that you were jealous . ’ |
| 23 | I might never get out of here because of him ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Everest will always be there but I might never get a chance to play at Twickenham again ’ — WILL KEFFORD ( Harlequins and Middlesex Colts full-back ) who cancelled a trip to join his father 's Everest expedition to play in the Colts Final at Twickenham which Middlesex lost to Lancashire ( 19–15 ) . |
| 25 | I might still get called one , but it would never hurt again . |
| 26 | I 'll even get married for five years if you want . |
| 27 | Gosh it 's so , yes of course it 's there , well I 'll just got right up and , you look for me down there , what did I think ? |
| 28 | I 'll just get my things … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll just get my glasses … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll just get the papers . |