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If I was to be a king, I decided I wanted to act like a king

get = cause to happen

If I was/were to be = if I was/were = second conditional

منور الموضوع بتعليقات حضرتك الرائعة جزاك الله خيرا

وهل تعتقد حضرتك انها تساوى

Were I to be a king, I decided I wanted to act like a king

sure it does

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Listen ! We have got them!

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It is best not to trust even the best of men

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It seems that a king,s life is quite hard, but a pretend king,s life is even harder

get something done= have something done which we use to express the causative but this sentence is not causative. It another use of the verb get
get + object + adjective
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I thought about causative at first, but ruled that out

I guess "We`ve got them" means = It is us who hold things against them.
Or, they cannot expose us.

It`s best not to trust even the best of men = We can trust Freyler sometimes, but in more important issues (like the secret of Rudolf replacing the king) it is best to keep it a secret even from whoever we trust.

It seems that a king,s life is quite hard, but a pretend king`s life is even harder = If I were a king I would live a hard life (though I would behave naturally because I am the king), but to act it or pretend it is much harder because we are two different characters.

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I think this , too but I have a word . I think that a pretend king,s life pretend here is an adj to the king,s life

thank you sir for your comments

Yes. like in the following examples
a pretend foreign accent - when Rudolf spoke to Detchard
a pretend king - Referring to Rudolf Rassendyll