Example sentences of "i may [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything that I may lawfully do I may also lawfully threaten to do , whatever the motive or purpose of my threat . |
| 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 even recover my northern accent lost over the years spent away , ’ he said . |
| 5 | In fact I may even have them be in here . |
| 6 | I may well take you up on the offer . ’ |
| 7 | I may well keep you here for your entertainment value . ’ |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | I may just mean I am cold and |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I may just have me chicken out and keep the sausage for another day |
| 12 | Just watch it , said Jay , sipping brandy , breathing fire , I may just stomp you with my hairy great mammoth foot . |
| 13 | I no longer vociferously challenge those who insult ; instead , I may casually invite them to come for a coffee and see/meet some students . |
| 14 | a short preambulum … so that I may gradually learn it by heart . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It really should not strike you as odd that I have been enquiring into your affairs — if I may so phrase it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Dear Bill ( if I may so call you ) |
| 20 | For another thing , the region is one of the edge of things if I may so put it and that 's why I 'm down here I mean as , as I know when we 're up there we 're at the centre of things , but lots of people do n't |
| 21 | But there it is , and outside and foreign firms will put money in , especially if subsidized by temporary government measures , for as you know , public investment in private industry is judged to be ideologically correct , while public investment for public and community concerns is judged ideologically to be harmful , but the firms are interested in making money out of the region if I may so put it , not in sustaining world promotion and healthy living in the region . |
| 22 | There was a pause and before Wilson could think how to reply , she added , ‘ But I may never see him as a man , ’ in a low voice . |
| 23 | ‘ If those gipsies have taken him I may never see him again , ’ said Angela , trying to keep back the tears . |
| 24 | I may never see you again Elsie but even if I never do I can not change the way I feel . |
| 25 | I may never see you again , but you have Mrs Gracie with you , who will look after the children and the house . |
| 26 | Indeed , I may never complete it , now that we have to move back to England to sort out our difficulties there . ’ |
| 27 | I may never know it in this world but I shall be told it in the next . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've loved being single and independent in my 20s , ’ says Anthea , ‘ but , as 30 beckons , I 'm asking myself if not having a life partner by now means that I may never have one . |
| 29 | I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice . |