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Example sentences for "would get"

  • There were so many boys, and the stable was so small, that I suppose he was afraid he would get stepped on if he went on the floor.

  • I like him so much that I told him I would get them to put his picture in my book.

  • I'm going to my studio to-morrow," he said.

  • He put his hand to his side as though in pain.

  • Everybody round started up and closed on him.

  • At first I thought I would get out as soon as the train had left the station.

  • I thought I would get my money, but there was a policeman before my door.

  • After an hour or more he would get up, and, stooping a little from the waist, walk slowly round the Place and return up hill.

  • Then a Dutch Deputy Sheriff, who was also keeper of the jail, came and told me that I was held for bigamy, adding the consoling intelligence that it would be a very hard job for me, and that I would get five or six years in State prison sure.

  • On my arrival there I managed to pick up a lawyer, or rather one of the sharks of the place picked me up, and said that for twenty-five dollars he would get me clear in three or four hours.

  • But it will be at an honest salary after this; the salary any other unskilled man would get.

  • Yes, until I went out there in May I always had the feeling that I would get her, somehow, some time.

  • I realized she couldn't forgive me,--yet I still thought I would get her, somehow.

  • Ed" Little of Abilene, Kansas, telling the ruler of Egypt not to worry, that he had plenty of years in which to live and that he would get ahead of them all yet.

  • From the first he had the notion that liberal spending was better, and that somehow he would get along.

  • So I was," returned Stener, foolishly, "but I thought I would get off at West Philadelphia and change my clothes.

  • If her father was about to attack her on that score, he would get no satisfaction, she thought.

  • Otherwise it was plain he would get no information.

  • This in theory; but in practice it would get us into such a mess that we had better go on talking about differences of kind as well as of degree.

  • If any child got hurt he used to kiss the place and it would get well at once.

  • If the maid went by and closed the door of the apparently empty room he would get up after a while and open it again.

  • Italian was surprisingly good, the director was sure he would get by very well.

  • Anyway, now he was running so that he would get there by nine o'clock if at all possible, even though he had no appointment for this time.

  • Only that I should put him out, I would get up and make a curtsey," said Clara.

  • He would get up, and go out down to the brickfields.

  • He would get it sooner, if I write to-night, my dear.

  • Many of the others have looked quite as well to me, but she was the first, and he was so proud of her he always wanted me to wait in the wagon until he hitched the horses, so he would get to take and to carry her himself.

  • I would get a smoke while I watched these toads.

  • Now at last he had thought he would get hold of something, and--nothing!

  • He seemed to fear that I would get tired of waiting and go away, leaving him with his tale untold, with his exultation unexpressed.

  • The gunboat wouldn't take us for fear we would get hurt.

  • On Sunday morning at nine o'clock, he would get up and begin to cut on that wood.

  • When I would get to the school I would put the children off, git straddle and ride that horse home.

  • Well, I think I would get a new altar and burn incense for the present!

  • Sometimes in the winter she couldn't sleep, and I would get up and amuse her by writing reviews of the books I had read.

  • My wife complained of the heat, and I raised the window, remarking that I would get up after a while and put it down.

  • When I want to get married I would get married--otherwise not.

  • By Saturday I bet yer we would get a hundred good shipping clerks already.

  • I bet yer if we would advertise in to-morrow morning's paper we would get a dozen good shipping clerks.

  • But we would get lots of business out of them now that they are married, Abe," Morris protested.

  • Jeffres greatly desired the contract and felt sure that he would get it.

  • I could pay him six hundred dollars and kick him out today, or if the panorama did not make six hundred dollars this tour he would get nothing.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would get" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    again began; entire change; justify the; morrow shall; would also; would appreciate; would better; would break; would consent; would follow; would grow; would have been difficult; would have been glad; would have been very; would kill; would observe; would play; would scarcely; would seek; would shoot; would succeed; would talk; would they; would want; would willingly; would wish