Example sentences of "you may [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Assuming you are not sensitive to these items , you may later reintroduce them , but avoid taking any of them in large quantities , and in particular avoid strong coffee or tea . |
| 32 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 33 | You may however see a chest drain on a general surgical ward . |
| 34 | Having stated the case you may legitimately put it into its historical setting in order to show what advance it made on the previous law ; and you may also indicate the trend of development that it started . |
| 35 | You may want to join a club and work out three times a week or you may simply decide to walk to work instead of going by car or 'bus . |
| 36 | From June to mid-September there is a piano bar , or you may simply prefer to just sit on the terrace with a cocktail at sunset . |
| 37 | You may ‘ see ’ the music in shapes and colours or you may simply experience a feeling of peace or deep emotion . |
| 38 | If you wish to do neither then you may simply TAB to the next message or press RETURN if you wish to exit the option . |
| 39 | But there are other ar areas where in fact you may simply agree to disagree . |
| 40 | Or you may simply say who sponsored the baluster . |
| 41 | But before doing that er , you may reasonably ask what action we 've taken er , during this year when it 's been such a difficult year . |
| 42 | Of course , you may reasonably point out , it is highly unlikely that a child would eat delphinium seeds . |
| 43 | Being at college is a time of great activity for you — intellectual development , physical growth , psychological insight — so it 's also a time when you may well experience particularly vivid dreams . |
| 44 | If someone goes away on holiday , you may well give the key to a neighbour , they probably know a relative of yours or somebody like that that if anything does happen they can contact you or your relative to come down and check the house over . |
| 45 | You may well decide to twist even further when using the front punch , but beware that your situation is weakened should the opponent immediately counter — attack . |
| 46 | During the remainder of 1990 you may well decide to find out what life has to offer elsewhere . |
| 47 | In short , it gave me ‘ back-bone ’ ( which you may well break attempting to clean these windows ) . |
| 48 | For instance , you may well admire a well-bred horse that has a lot of competition potential — but even if you can afford it , buying it would be a big mistake if what you really want is something quiet and up to weight to hack and do riding club events . |
| 49 | ‘ Yes , you may well blush , sweetheart . |
| 50 | You may well blush ! ’ |
| 51 | So if there 's a burglar then , he 'll probably be put off by I mean if he really wanted to break into any particular house for a reason , you , you might approach it , but if you have n't got th no firm house in mind you 've several houses and there 's one house without any lights on at all and it was night time , you may well go for that one first . |
| 52 | Either way , if you blow your nose , you may well miss it altogether . |
| 53 | If you entertain a lot you may well prefer to have your kitchen separate from the dining area , unless you opt for a large and deliberately-for-dining kitchen . |
| 54 | But by using old pieces of furniture of odd shapes and sizes you may well sacrifice the conventional work surface to retain character . |
| 55 | When you look around at all the -products which flop , or those which make you wonder who would buy them , and at the companies which fail to keep up with consumer desires and demands , you may well pause to reflect on the success of the marketing approach . |
| 56 | Remember that one of these options is to do nothing , though you may well feel that this is one of those cases where this course of action ( or in action ) would simply make matters worse . |
| 57 | The landscape of woodland and fields is very beautiful and if you like golf , you may well feel you have died and gone to heaven — there are an astounding twenty-five golf courses within a 20-mile radius and the local Ladybank course is an Open qualifier . |
| 58 | If you want to make love you may well feel it discreet to listen for your neighbour 's snores before you start the bed-springs rattl-ing . |
| 59 | Listen to his way with Chopin 's instruction la melodia tenuta e legata in the E minor , Op. 25 No. 5 , or the urgency ( rather than mere proficiency ) with which the notorious thirds of Op. 25 No. 6 are propelled , and you may well feel that you are hearing this music for the first time . |
| 60 | If you 're away from home for the first time , you may well feel lonely and unhappy — a major contributory factor in student depression and withdrawal from college . |