Example sentences of "may [vb infin] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , some may affect me one way , the next person they ask , affected another way , so they get two different opinions , do n't they . |
| 2 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 3 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 4 | And Herbert , you may think me lucky . |
| 5 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |
| 6 | He may throw me among strangers . |
| 7 | I may want me to go and do it now ? |
| 8 | That you may grant me grace . |
| 9 | He may make me feel desolate , make my spirits sink , hide my future from me … still … |
| 10 | It may make me sound as if I 'm in training for a Blue Peter badge , but it works . |
| 11 | That learned attitude in its turn may make me uncomfortably edgy and aggressive when situations . |
| 12 | This view of scientific theories may make me an instrumentalist or a positivist — as I have said above , I have been called both . |
| 13 | Let me go , and if I run my head into a hornet 's nest you may disown me . ’ |
| 14 | Though , as I say , this is very much a matter of personal taste and is not a ‘ rule ’ and there are some patterns in the electronic packs which may tempt me to change my preferences . |
| 15 | Yet our eyes lingered , and hers conveyed both an indication and a warning : Subtlety may win me , but force never will . |
| 16 | You may trust me , Mortals . ’ |
| 17 | You may trust me . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You may show me that you 're not too proud . ’ |
| 19 | My whole being snags and crackles with broken glass , but that 's all right , because although they may smell me , nobody sees me and nobody knows me . |
| 20 | For example , if I assume a man is honest when in fact he is a rogue , he may cheat me when I trust him . |
| 21 | And if the King leaves Windsor in the meantime , the justiciar may send me word , and I 'll come to him at Gloucester or wherever he may be . ’ |
| 22 | On the other hand if I am in a drama experience my own actions and things about me may trap me into believing I am in an actual event . |
| 23 | But I 'm afraid they may accuse me of lying . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Many people may accuse me of naivety , yet I believe they are wrong … |
| 25 | ‘ You may accuse me of anything you like , ’ he answered stiffly , ‘ but not of complacency . |
| 26 | The walk may do me good . ’ |
| 27 | You may bring me a pot of tea at four o'clock . |
| 28 | ‘ … entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar , that he may give me the cave of Machpelah , which he owns ; it is at the end of his field . |
| 29 | And he turned toward the East and knelt and said , Holy Mary Mother , and all Saints , pray to God for me , that he may give me strength to destroy all the Pagans , and to win enough from them to requite my friends therewith , and all those who follow and help me . |
| 30 | He may give me till tea-time . |