Example sentences of "may [vb infin] that you [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may think that you know who is to read your report . |
| 2 | You may think that you have answers to all these questions , and no doubt you have . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | you know that is the , erm two or three things there , you 're working by yourself in your , your personal preparation prepa preparation are crucial parts , erm , if any of the people were thinking of going to erm , erm , a college , erm , the same sort of thing will arise and I suppose the big difference for if you do n't have lessons then I think I 'm right in saying you do n't necessarily have to go in , I do n't know whether that still applies , erm , you would be expected of course to erm , erm , to turn up at school here , erm , now there are advantages and disadvantages , you may feel that you prefer , knowing on your own what you 're like , you 'll prefer erm some fairly rigid rules , erm , because if there were n't rules you might think you 'd take advantage of us |
| 5 | Keeping the pencil in your hand you may feel that you want to shade in certain shapes . |
| 6 | After reading this booklet you may feel that you need more information or some extra help . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You may feel that you have to hide your own feelings to protect them . |
| 9 | Some days you will find that the dog responds well , whereas on others you may feel that you have made no progress . |
| 10 | If and when you do have a reaction to individual food groups , you may feel that you have had a setback . |
| 11 | You may realize that you suffer from this problem , but it is very difficult to break the pattern . |
| 12 | You may discover that you 've chosen to fish a line too close in or too far out . |
| 13 | At some point the size of the enterprise may dictate that you think commercially rather than in terms of self-reliance . |
| 14 | Modern furniture should be fire-proof but your budget may dictate that you buy second-hand . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If you decide that kit garages do not offer what you want , or you have a particularly awkward site to cope with , you may decide that you have no option but to design and build a garage to suit your requirements . |
| 17 | For example , you may decide that you need to do more on listening . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They may suggest that you have no confidence in your argument or even that you ca n't make up your mind — and that does not make for much of an argument . |
| 21 | and push and cajole , and it may mean that you need to erm over visit er |
| 22 | Unawareness of the phonetic habits of your own language may mean that you carry over those habits into the new language . |
| 23 | Also it may mean that you have to pay in advance . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A comprehensive questionnaire may mean that you do not need to see the witness at the earliest stage of your investigations ( see Appendix 9A ) . |
| 28 | Dread of the event may mean that you fail to prepare and rehearse adequately . |
| 29 | But if you look outside at what your competitors are doing , you may realise that you need to improve by 20% . |
| 30 | Oh , you may notice that you get out of breath when you have been running or that you hold your breath when frightened . |