Example sentences of "[pron] may [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may plea with her to spend more time with me , but finally she chooses . |
| 2 | If I may Chairman on the third set of questions erm those are |
| 3 | Erm so I may sort of look into it a bit more maybe get a bit more experience |
| 4 | However , as I have n't yet had the opportunity to study the large scale maps of the area , there may be hidden markers which may firm up the circles and so narrow the discrepancy . |
| 5 | A trivial slight , a threat to self-esteem , which might cause you a moment 's irritation , here can give rise to resentments which may fester for centuries . ’ |
| 6 | You may trip over a couple of times on the way but you will be quite capable of picking yourself up and getting on with life until you have achieved your goal . |
| 7 | Right , you may troop by that and look down there , notice I was n't wearing the goggles that was naughty of me was n't it ? |
| 8 | Or you may sort of erm people who you do the same thing over and over again , the same sort of job , would you not agree a little bit of complacency can set in and erm things do n't perhaps come over quite as they should ? |
| 9 | Now Jean was pleased because I do sequence dancing which I learnt with my husband , and so now this coming September when we start back again , once a month I 'm going to teach some sequence dancing in the hope that some young ones would , will hear of it and , and join because then once you can sort of get them involved with one thing you may sort of get good numbers . |
| 10 | If you may sort of done it |
| 11 | Thus we can see that there is a broad variety of approaches which we may group under the heading of ‘ natural law theories ’ because they all rely on something other than state law to constitute the valid rules of a legal system . |
| 12 | If they are arthritic , their sight is poor , or they are subject to dizzy spells they may trip over the flex . |
| 13 | They may co-habit in the landscape but their ecological niches make very different physical demands and their shapes have evolved accordingly : they are the barn owl , the herring gull and the mallard duck . |
| 14 | They , they may sort of be very submissive , B types , and therefore they can be stressed in a different way . |
| 15 | Now in , in the early stages you certainly want to encourage as many people from this base to join , when the development , the movement gathers pace it 's possible to say right we possibly w there 's some , sort of the wealthy peasants we do n't really want , they 're the ones who prospered under the old scheme of things , they were the ones who had some power and influence and er by even drawing them into the association there is a danger that they may sort of assume the lead or take an active role which would be detrimental , which would negate the movement and try and make it er less revolutionary and more lawful , they would go back to sort of reform of the old system rather than the overthrowal |
| 16 | The stresses set up by the effects of heat and cold on the glass could have weakened it to the point that it may fracture under pressure in the aquarium . |
| 17 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |