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in order that I might buy some new clothes in the shopping centre.
** I grabbed the rope that I might not fall.
* if lest is used, the final clause takes should or may (the latter being obsolescent, and used only for the present and the future), or the subjunctive.
** I grabbed the rope lest I should fall.
** I play the violin lest I should (or may) be bored.
** He does what he is told lest he be sacked. (subjunctive)
** He used the subjunctive lest they thought

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