Example sentences of "you [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell , you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine , but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile . |
| 32 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |
| 33 | A magic peep-hole , wrote Harsnet. pay extra and you may see Ferdinand and Miranda playing at chess . |
| 34 | Or you may see exactly what you would see by looking through the glass at any point . |
| 35 | You may have thought I had thrown them away , or merely , forgotten about them , and I was entitled to do either , since you explicitly said I was to do exactly whit I liked with them , that you washed your hands of them completely . |
| 36 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
| 37 | When you start there is a sense in which everything you do is right , there is no clear sense of wrong , though of course it is here that you may make the inevitable false move , take the inevitable wrong turning . |
| 38 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , my son Michael , whom you may not even remember , the fair one with the glasses . |
| 39 | A house of sin you may call it , but not a house of darkness for the candles are never out , and it is like those countries far in the north where it is as clear at mid-night as at mid-day … |
| 40 | If you have any need of me you may enquire of my nephew the vicar . ’ |
| 41 | Should you wish advice from the world 's greatest detective you may enquire for me at the Rose and Crown . |
| 42 | You may be homeless but at least you 're not a dumb blonde like I am . ’ |
| 43 | You may recall that earlier in the year I burdened you with my worries . |
| 44 | We decided not to do teas , you may remember . |
| 45 | You may prefer a large and simple paved terrace area , or something smaller , incorporating raised beds and a barbecue . |
| 46 | As you may have gathered , I am a pond fanatic ! |
| 47 | In theory , you have to ensure that you have at least two trees in flower at the same time so that they can pollinate each other , otherwise you may get no fruit at all . |
| 48 | Birds love the seed , so you may need to net it . |
| 49 | So why , you may well ask , try to grow it then ? |
| 50 | If your amaryllis has produced seed pods , you may fancy raising seedlings . |
| 51 | Although you may get ridiculously low because of pressing on too hard , when , a few minutes later , you are back in the good conditions several thousand feet up , you must forget the wasted time and concentrate on flying normally . |
| 52 | However , someone seeing you may do the same thing using a crude ‘ dead man ’ to hold the fuselage upright . |
| 53 | However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead . |
| 54 | It is tempting to hang on to the launch , thinking that it will pick up speed , but if you do you may arrive almost over the end of the field with very little height or speed — an awkward situation . |
| 55 | By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach . |
| 56 | If you are scratching in weak lift , you may be able to see which way you have drifted after a few circles . |
| 57 | You may require a small backward movement in many machines to stop the nose from dropping . |
| 58 | On most gliders that will mean less than 50 knots , which you may think rather slow for a steep turn . |
| 59 | Practising aerobatics and spinning will help to overcome any misgivings you may have about flying in steep turns at low speeds . |
| 60 | Ideally , take another flight straight away so that you can master any difficulties you may have experienced on the first flight . |