Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] you may " in BNC.
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| 1 | • My advice is to resist the impulse to buy Swan Mussels for your pond ( you wo n't see them anyway ) , and get rid of any you may already have . |
| 2 | Until now you may well have been making samples only 60 stitches wide . |
| 3 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |
| 4 | But at least you may be comfortable in your captivity . ’ |
| 5 | But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high-flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM . |