Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them add to the quality of life of the residents , and many of them may also help you enjoy your work too . |
| 2 | ‘ I may even give you some more . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I may even give you a bonus if Silvia does well in her exams . ’ |
| 4 | I may well take you up on the offer . ’ |
| 5 | I may well keep you here for your entertainment value . ’ |
| 6 | If I may just refer you sir to er my appendix which it actually the last page of your papers erm er if you see on it is actually page numbered thirty one and it 's paragraph thirteen thirty six at the very back of the papers . |
| 7 | Just watch it , said Jay , sipping brandy , breathing fire , I may just stomp you with my hairy great mammoth foot . |
| 8 | Dear Bill ( if I may so call you ) |
| 9 | I may never see you again Elsie but even if I never do I can not change the way I feel . |
| 10 | I may never see you again , but you have Mrs Gracie with you , who will look after the children and the house . |
| 11 | Someone may even give you some appreciation back , and say , ‘ Thank you for your appreciation , Linda . ’ |
| 12 | If I had been older and wiser at the time , then I would have been sorely tempted to write back ( on Mother 's behalf ) something like this : ‘ My dear son , I must regretfully inform you , not with malice but with sorrow , that money is not easy to come by . |
| 13 | I must just tell you this , Laura did make me laugh , cos she said she stood up and she said , I 'm gon na give my talk about cats so I said , fine . |
| 14 | If you were a professional model I should probably require you to take every stitch of clothing off , let alone your shoes and stockings , and , if you will remember , it is on the grounds of the business-like aspect of this arrangement that I have your aunt 's sanction to paint you . |
| 15 | Because you put my back up with your cool assumption that I should simply tell you anything you want to know . |
| 16 | Turning to investment banking and I should just remind you that er , we take fifty percent of Brothers ' profits and ten percent of New York and Paris and given the conditions , given the environment last year , I do n't think need be ashamed of the performance er , although in London the only business to really come in , come in with impressive returns was er , asset trading money , broking and banking . |
| 17 | ‘ I should bloody kill you , Quinn . ’ |
| 18 | I have given a great deal of thought as to how much I should actually tell you about this period and what just to leave to your imagination . |
| 19 | ‘ I should never accuse you of that , Mrs Roscoe . |
| 20 | Even if I did not like you very much , I should still want you to be manageress of the Maison de Verveine in London . |
| 21 | ‘ My dearest David — although I do n't have the faintest idea why I should still call you this after what you told me last night — I 've had a long think . |
| 22 | I should perhaps remind you that they would normally be somewhat warmer than they were during our inspection , at any rate during one half of the working day … |
| 23 | ‘ As I 'm supposed to be helping you with Ana , ’ she said quietly , ‘ I should perhaps tell you that in my opinion Mitch is falling in love with her . ’ |
| 24 | And I should perhaps warn you , Ellie , that in game-playing I always win . |
| 25 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's a good thing for you I 'm driving or I might just show you whose woman you really are . |
| 27 | ‘ Put your hand in the Mouth of Truth , ’ she said , ‘ and I might just believe you . ’ |
| 28 | I might even throw you over the battlements myself when I 've finished with you . |
| 29 | ‘ I might even slip you one before I do . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I might well ask you the same question , ’ he said coolly , not moving further into the room . |