Example sentences of "[verb] we may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this is happening we may get into standing , walking or sitting in ways that are a strain on the body . |
| 2 | We did n't do too badly then and I suggest we may turn out the winner again . |
| 3 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 4 | One said : ‘ If it happens we may press for an inquiry by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . ’ |
| 5 | And I saw Mrs Chamberlin 's hens and they were splendid and Aunt Emily says we may keep some and I shall make sure it is me who looks after them , not Murphy . ’ |
| 6 | But , for the time to come , I hope we may double our diligence , if the war with France do not obstruct our endeavours … for time is so far spent , past our meridian , that the affair calls for diligence . |
| 7 | I am writing direct to say I hope we may meet when you are in the UK next month , and sorry I am you were too busy to manage even a few words on the ‘ phone earlier this week . |
| 8 | Quickly taking stock of the atmosphere , Pétain remarked icily to Serrigny : ‘ In these circumstances we shall install ourselves at Souilly , where I hope we may find a little more calm . ’ |
| 9 | During a panic attack we may feel our heart beating very fast and very hard , our bodies begin to sweat very heavily , we may feel unreal , faint , dizzy , and nauseous as blood is pumped away from the head and the stomach . |
| 10 | They do not think we may mean the " inner stars " . |
| 11 | But when we come to look at the cluster and the and the audience contact then then you know we may see something a little bit different , Okay but er those are the important aspects things like things like whoops the use of the hands you know several people put their hands in their pockets or put them behind their back or something like that . |
| 12 | He fears we may fall to disenchantment , bad old habits , national chauvinism , racist frenzy — or ‘ endism ’ . |
| 13 | As an interim measure of the significance of so doing we may recall , briefly , the irreverent verses such as Saint Pierre et le jongleur , discussed above . |
| 14 | Using this approach we believe we may have discovered the signal . |
| 15 | Yes , I believe we may find ourselves forced to approach the whole question of happiness , which philosophers have gone round and about for so long . |
| 16 | Seems we may have a chance of finding out : In America , 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley has already ‘ divorced ’ his real parents in a successful legal action . |
| 17 | William Sumption , director of a private water-development group in Alabama , says : ‘ It seems we may need Daddy to tell us where the toys are on the floor , and how to share them . ’ |
| 18 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 19 | We feel we may have arrested all the gang , financiers and organisers as well as the landing party . |
| 20 | I think the actions of the security firm at the time were very quick , and but for their actions I feel we may have had far more serious consequences than we actually did . ’ |
| 21 | Well I guess we may get a we may get ourselves a waste disposable unit . |
| 22 | Faced with the great variety of distinctions that I have indicated we may ask whether they can in fact be brought within the compass of a single typology . |
| 23 | Good quality , additive-free , fresh lean meat is an excellent food , but our fast food philosophy means we may eat a lesser version . |
| 24 | Assuming binding constraints , and taking the case where there is only one product y with price p ( or independent demands ) , means we may write the Lagrangean function from ( 4.2 ) with multipliers μ and λ as : Then , the first order conditions give ; unc being |
| 25 | I think we may take it as certain he had business here . |
| 26 | I think we may attribute the child 's recovery to the gas , not forgetting the excellent nursing . ’ |
| 27 | I think we may have some news soon about Bill and Ricky . |
| 28 | After the pictures were developed , Dick Wixsom invited Dick Hansen to lunch with the words , ‘ I think we may have found your P-40 . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I think we may have a breakthrough . |
| 30 | ‘ I think we may have been too good over the years , ’ observed their wicketkeeping Vicar . |