Example sentences of "may [vb infin] that you [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may know that you have passed all your exams but , if your Inner Face tells you ( for whatever reason ) that you are incapable of achievement , that is what you must put down . |
| 2 | Keeping the pencil in your hand you may feel that you want to shade in certain shapes . |
| 3 | Some days you will find that the dog responds well , whereas on others you may feel that you have made no progress . |
| 4 | If and when you do have a reaction to individual food groups , you may feel that you have had a setback . |
| 5 | You may feel that you have read some of these lines before ; line 760 anticipates Keats 's ‘ Ode to a Nightingale ’ : as does the sense of the next two lines . |
| 6 | You may feel that you have to hide your own feelings to protect them . |
| 7 | You may discover that you 've chosen to fish a line too close in or too far out . |
| 8 | You may decide that you wish to eat less in future and send the money you save to a worthy cause — but it 's far too late to do anything now with that extra roast potato or the last spoonful of pudding . |
| 9 | For example , you may decide that you need to do more on listening . |
| 10 | remember there is no obligation to tell anyone ; but you may decide that you need to do so in order to obtain their support , or access to certain facilities . |
| 11 | If you 're over-polite in conversation , your use of distance may suggest that you want to play high status by keeping the other person at bay , below you . |
| 12 | Anyway , the position now is that if you do not take silk at the right moment , it may mean that you have to continue working much too hard for your time of life ; on the other hand some barristers who take silk repent it , for they find too late that their services in the more expensive class of advocacy are not in demand . |
| 13 | Your success could be resented by others , which may mean that you have to fight for dear life to hang on to what you 've got , or there will be little time to enjoy your personal or social life . |
| 14 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 15 | Also it may mean that you have to pay in advance . |
| 16 | Dread of the event may mean that you fail to prepare and rehearse adequately . |
| 17 | But if you look outside at what your competitors are doing , you may realise that you need to improve by 20% . |
| 18 | You may find that you 've worried about whether you 'll be seen as weak of you give it your blessing . |
| 19 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 20 | You may find that you need to do this exercise several times a day when you 're under pressure or feel tense . |
| 21 | You may find that you need to apply the solution several times and should obviously avoid doing the gob just before a rain storm is forecast . |
| 22 | You may find that you have misinterpreted some events because of lack of background information about the child concerned . |
| 23 | You may find that you do need an adjective , but not that one . |