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Simple sentences
There was danger lest the secret become known.
Jim went into the room quietly lest he should wake the baby.
Please give me your picture lest I forget how you look.
She turned her head away lest he see her tears.
He wrote down the number lest he should forget it.
He walked on tiptoe lest he be heard.
She studied hard lest she should fail her exam.
She turned her head away, lest he should see her tears.
Put on your coat lest you should catch the cold.
I wrote down his phone number lest I should forget it.
He wrote it down lest he should forget it.
Take care lest you should fall asleep.
Take this umbrella with you lest you should get wet and catch cold.
We came in through the back door lest someone should see us.
I wore a coat lest I catch a cold.
Take care lest you should fall.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Beware of cameras with long lenses, lest you get snapped in a compromising situation.
Movie subtitles
Well at lest there's a reason for your note. But. I can see why I should get one.
You stay here lest you frighten him.
I figure best we leave something like this on him, 'lest somebody digs him up and makes out he was killed.
Let him be punished, sovereign, lest example breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king come here himself to question our delay.
Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day, lest he knock that about yours.
Yet no man should find in him any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing it, should dishearten his army.
Take from them now the sense of reckoning, lest the opposed numbers pluck their hearts from them.
I'm thinking what a nice Christmas present it would be to! Trudy and Jim and the lest.
Do not look upon me, lest with this piteous action you convert my stern intents, so I shed tears, not blood.
Get on your nightgown lest occasion call us, and show us to be watchers.
Disclose no more former owners, you villain lest my name be among them.
Beware, Saxon, lest you strike horse!
Lest this poor soul be forced to hobble for the rest of his life on one foot. My Master has granted him the boon of death.
Think carefully, child. Lest I revert to other means.
Burn those letters in your brain. lest they be burned on your hides, too.
Take it because the years are long and full of sharp, wearing days that change us into people we do not know lest you and I, who love each other now should wake some morning strangers and enemies in an alien world, far off.
Lest that be all you ever have to remember.
But lest you drive yourself completely insane, I assure you I promise you, the concerto will be played.
I should be careful lest.
Be careful, lest you succeed.
I fear to touch it, lest I harm the thread.
Lest shipment of gold stolen bannot understand how bandits get their information.
WE MUSTN'T TALK, LEST WE DISTURB HER.
I figure best we leave something like this on him lest somebody digs him up and makes out he was killed.
Let him be punish'd, sovereign. Lest example breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
Lest that our king come here himself to question our delay.
Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us, and show us to be watchers.
Take heed you dally not before your king. lest he that is the supreme King of Kings. confound your hidden falsehood. and award either of you to be the other's end.
Marry, my lord, lest by a multitude. the new-healed wound of malice should break out. as well the fear of harm as harm apparent. in my opinion, ought to be prevented.
Go, hie thee, hie thee from this slaughterhouse. lest thou increase the number of the dead.
News and current affairs
As for fiscal policy, it is already in high gear and needs gradual tightening over several years, lest already troubling government-debt levels deteriorate even faster.
Israeli extremists assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, lest he mobilize broad public support to make peace.
Some claim that the Fund counsels countries in private, lest public warnings trigger the very crisis that is to be avoided.
It would also be essential to set a deadline for Iran to accept such an accord, lest it use further negotiations to buy time to improve its nuclear capabilities.
But Treasury officials believe that they must keep up the pressure, lest Congress follow through on threats to punish supposed currency manipulators, derailing the TPP and other trade agreements.
Astoundingly, young Greek entrepreneurs reportedly fear to incorporate their firms in Greece, lest others use false documents to take away their companies.
Europe's leaders must act now to minimize the risks, lest they find their shelters inadequate to the extreme weather that could lie ahead.
As the US inevitably reduces its role, others should be prepared to step up, lest Iraq's government falls and the Iraqi state fails.
Nor could a country abuse the privilege, lest it be automatically withdrawn, causing the country's cost of borrowing to rise immediately.
Early elections should be avoided, lest those (such as the Muslim Brotherhood) who have been able to organize over the years enjoy an unfair advantage.
The result has been to encourage liars to clog the system with disinformation and false leads while discouraging honest people from reporting what they observe, lest an innocent neighbor be incarcerated on the basis of misperceptions.
Stock exchanges in emerging markets will increasingly be forced to contemplate regional or global integration or alliances, lest they remain solely domestic in nature.
In such circumstances, small countries seemingly have no choice: financial markets' Diktat on austerity, lest they be punished by withdrawal of financing.
By the same token, Blair will need to press the Palestinians to deliver a virtual cessation of attacks on Israel from Palestinian territories, including by Hamas, lest all peace efforts be blown apart by renewed fighting.
That is because we have created a patent system that gives innovators a temporary monopoly over what they create, which encourages them to hoard their knowledge, lest they help a competitor.
But Russian leaders resist tough sanctions on Iran, lest they jeopardize financial dealings there and lead to increased Iranian support for Muslim minorities inside Russia.
That should stand as a warning to Timor Leste's clashing factions, lest any of them conclude that repression and dictatorship are the best solution.
This is a global economy that must be navigated carefully, lest those that seek to benefit from change find themselves falling victim to it.
Lest we blame China too much, though, we should remember that there is little that prevents developing countries from replicating the essentials of the Chinese model.
Russia must rid itself, once and for all, of Putinism's systemic corruption, lest the country be consumed by it.
But transatlantic relations - no less than relations among the 25 members of the EU or the 26 members of NATO - cannot be an all-or-nothing proposition, lest they run the risk of becoming nothing.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has embarked on a campaign to force President Barack Obama to set a red line that Iran must not cross, lest it risk unleashing an American military response.
A paralyzed and rudderless Indian government initially blacked out reporting on the incursion, lest it come under public pressure to mount a robust response.
Lest we forget, the outcome for the world would have been far worse if China's ascent had failed.
After all, because biology-based arguments about gender difference have historically been used to justify women's subjugation, women have been reluctant to concede any innate difference, lest it be used against them.
For more than half that time - say, 85 years - it has been accepted doctrine that markets are also not to be trusted even in normal times, lest doing so lead to a liquidity squeeze or to an inflationary bubble.
But, lest we forget: in the summer 1914, most actors regarded the impending disaster as an impossibility.