Example sentences of "i may [adv] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What pleases me may not please you , and my recommendation may disappoint you — and then what would you think ? |
| 2 | Anything that I may lawfully do I may also lawfully threaten to do , whatever the motive or purpose of my threat . |
| 3 | ‘ I may even give you some more . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I may even give you a bonus if Silvia does well in her exams . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I may even recover my northern accent lost over the years spent away , ’ he said . |
| 6 | In fact I may even have them be in here . |
| 7 | I may well take you up on the offer . ’ |
| 8 | I may well keep you here for your entertainment value . ’ |
| 9 | when I say ‘ I am cold ’ I may just mean I am cold and it may not be a statement about my view of myself with regard to society and my particular stage of middle age crisis and so on and so forth , although , you know , given a certain number of intelligent people they could no doubt build an enormous emphasis on |
| 10 | I may just mean I am cold and |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I may just have me chicken out and keep the sausage for another day |
| 13 | Just watch it , said Jay , sipping brandy , breathing fire , I may just stomp you with my hairy great mammoth foot . |
| 14 | ‘ I accept your favour , my lady , although I may not wear it on my sleeve as a true knight should . |
| 15 | ‘ And if I may not have you permanently , then a little temporary use would satisfy me , I think . ’ |
| 16 | Well I may not , I may not find it as good , do n't , they always show you clips as trailers of the best bit 's . |
| 17 | And I may not suit your parents . ’ |
| 18 | They stopped just beyond the steps of the food office and , all the irritation seeming to flow from him , he looked at her meekly now as he said , ‘ I may not see you again for weeks . |
| 19 | ‘ Connie , I may not see you again . |
| 20 | I may not like it . |
| 21 | Now if I am a good reporter , in a sense I 'm going to let the original question flow past me as a starter , I may use it , I may not use it . |
| 22 | And I may not need your services now , so you could be on a train back to Frankfurt tomorrow . ’ |
| 23 | My new aunt , your blessing or your curse , I care not which , but quickly give me one or the other that I may not lose my dinner . |
| 24 | I no longer vociferously challenge those who insult ; instead , I may casually invite them to come for a coffee and see/meet some students . |
| 25 | a short preambulum … so that I may gradually learn it by heart . |
| 26 | But when he gets round to it , I think he 'll control them a bit more closely , now you can invest in that sort of fund quite safely , and although it wo n't give you any capital growth , because if they 're giving you ten percent income , obviously the capital growth 's going to be limited , but er if it 's the income that you 're after , not a bad thing to do , so I mean at the moment I may actually combine one income-type er P E P with one growth and income , where the , where the , perhaps the yield is about five percent . |
| 27 | I may now consider myself significant , even of importance , I may now feel strong and reassured by those who have helped and loved me , but for inner strength , the strength when I am alone or awake in the night , or when old feelings rear their hoary heads , I turn to what is beneath my feet . |
| 28 | It really should not strike you as odd that I have been enquiring into your affairs — if I may so phrase it . |
| 29 | My dear friend — if I may so describe him — the previous Foreign Secretary , who resigned from the right hon. Lady 's Government over Europe , was equally thrilled , although he did not express himself — he never does — in quite such colourful language . |
| 30 | Dear Bill ( if I may so call you ) |