Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In fact it 's possible I may move in with William . ’ |
| 2 | But this I may say , that it seems unworthy of you that you should be too angry over this affair . ’ |
| 3 | I did n't ring your family with the sole intention of provoking another of your temper tantrums , however entertaining I may find them . |
| 4 | When I visit the veterans , they have such a wealth of experience to tell of the old days , some I may add , from before I was born , and it does seem such a shame they never get an invite to look behind the scenes of a present day JS branch . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you afraid I may burn my fingers ? ’ |
| 6 | I 'm afraid I may fall into some wicked trap . |
| 7 | From this you may form some idea of their distress , and the holy violence used in entering the strait gate . |
| 8 | And for this you may thank the current recession . |
| 9 | While you do this you may have little spare capacity for monitoring the feelings of people in the meeting and spotting members who are silently expressing messages such as dissent , apathy , boredom , anger , confusion and so on . |
| 10 | If you do need to travel in an emergency , perhaps other members of the family will be able to cover for you , or failing this you may have a friend or neighbour who will be able to take the puppy into their home until you return . |
| 11 | When you read this you may have made the inference that the turtle was knocked into the water when the beaver hit the log . |
| 12 | If it 's shorter you may need a pair of ( 22mm/¾″ BSP ) tap adaptors ; if longer , you may need to cut the pipe and then fit two new ( 22mm¾″ BSP ) tap connectors . |
| 13 | In some schools you will be asked to participate with other students in basic class work over a weekend ( as happens at the Bristol Old Vic drama school ) and in some you may find yourself being judged partly by senior students of the school who will be sitting with the faculty panel ( which is something that happens at Drama Centre ) . |
| 14 | The path is famous for its wild plants — thrift , sea campion , kidney vetch , thyme and stonecrop are some you may see . |
| 15 | But I 'm afraid she may fight me . |
| 16 | ‘ Miss Compton-Burnett , I 'm afraid you may think this is an impertinent question ’ ( I held my breath ) , ‘ but were there elements of that destructive power in your own family ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm afraid you may have to wait a little longer , ’ he replied apologetically . |
| 18 | Similarly , if the official is expected to trim advice so that it is politically acceptable she may find this unpalatable if she takes pride in offering impartial advice . |
| 19 | Only John took the ‘ poorter 's oath ’ necessary for those who wanted to establish a business , and from this we may surmise that James Champneys lived with John and Jane and that the business was solely in John 's name . |
| 20 | If you do so you must repay to us immediately the amount by which your withdrawal exceeded the amount available and if you fail to do this we may debit any other account or accounts you may have . |
| 21 | This interior analogue of the exterior world is actively ‘ seen ’ ; and this we may presume is no accidental metaphor , for the dominance of visual perception in human life extends into the inner world of experiencing as a dominant mode providing a basic ‘ map ’ of an ongoing continuum . |
| 22 | From this we may conclude that the ‘ at least ’ sense of numerals is not established . |
| 23 | This we may express , indeed , in a few words , but it should influence us throughout all our treatment of horses ; for a horse will more readily take the bit , if , when he has taken it , something pleasant results to himself ; and he will leap across ditches , and jump over obstacles , and comply with our wishes in all other respects , if he looks forward , when he has done what is required of him , to some indulgence . |
| 24 | Mr. Shaker : With this we may take amendment No. 17 , in clause 12 , page 6 , line 32 , at end insert , " and shall ensure that employees " pension rights are in no way diminished by the operation of this Act . " |
| 25 | This we may obtain easily from Fig. 2.8 as follows |
| 26 | In reply to this we may claim that only by considering unrealized possibilities can we define the nature of a writer 's achievement . |
| 27 | To this we may add the variations in cognitive , linguistic and perceptual growth between children of different backgrounds indicated in my last section . |
| 28 | By doing this we may begin to see products that people will want to buy and use . |
| 29 | It is also that the the maintenance of our road schedules continues to a very high standard and so we are n't er , we have to take er the money from that source er and I will be hoping that perhaps in this we may find that we do not need to raid that particular fund so that we may find |
| 30 | If the demand is high we may need to limit the attendance to a maximum of three per parish council . |