Example sentences of "[pron] may [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may plea with her to spend more time with me , but finally she chooses . |
| 2 | Anyway , since the English language , not unlike its speakers , and the climate in which it was reared , did not necessarily adhere to the principles of predictability , even had the thought of the good Earl occurred to me , I may st ill not have surmised that it gave proof positive one way or the other re the acceptable pronunciation of the Square 's Christian name . |
| 3 | From which we make a deduction and I 'll come back to that deduction in a moment if I may sir . |
| 4 | Can I , yeah , can I go on to the application if I may Chairman ? |
| 5 | If I may chairman . |
| 6 | If I may Chairman on the third set of questions erm those are |
| 7 | Erm so I may sort of look into it a bit more maybe get a bit more experience |
| 8 | Er , one question if I may Chair ? |
| 9 | And if I may Mr chairman , something that 's happened in the last few days , that 's er evident that er the been the first satellite survey in this country ever which is now beginning to show to the nation , just in fact the damage that roads have been doing and that there 's in fact now some suggestion from government that they may be rethinking some elements of these roads , because the environmental impact has not really been taken into account as effectively before . |
| 10 | I should like i if I may Mr Deputy Speaker , to commend Welsh billing authorities for their better than expected performance in collecting the council tax . |
| 11 | I now if I may President , turn to motion one one one A which amul er , amends rule A five . |
| 12 | Mr Mayor if I may amendment if I may . |
| 13 | A myrrour of glasse , that I may prene therin ; |
| 14 | So that I may wheel and deal . |
| 15 | However , as I have n't yet had the opportunity to study the large scale maps of the area , there may be hidden markers which may firm up the circles and so narrow the discrepancy . |
| 16 | The most troublesome cases are provided where the problem is identified by pluralists as one of incomplete integration into the central value-system resulting in a state of backwardness in the outlying regions which may t e permanent . |
| 17 | There is a presumption ( but no more ) that it is a penalty when ‘ a single lump is made payable by way of compensation , on the occurrence of one or more or all of several events , some of which may occasion serious and others but trifling damage … ’ |
| 18 | A trivial slight , a threat to self-esteem , which might cause you a moment 's irritation , here can give rise to resentments which may fester for centuries . ’ |
| 19 | It can take several hours to kill an entire whale group which may number several hundred individuals . ’ |
| 20 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
| 21 | You shake a sheaf of poems in the face of killers ; you do paintings with Uncle Sam as an anaconda ; and writers talk of five centuries of resistance to oppressors who may change-colonists , missionaries , generals , coke bosses-but whose victims remain the same . |
| 22 | You may trip over a couple of times on the way but you will be quite capable of picking yourself up and getting on with life until you have achieved your goal . |
| 23 | Right , you may troop by that and look down there , notice I was n't wearing the goggles that was naughty of me was n't it ? |
| 24 | I you may memory , you added he had a hand gun that 's what she told you ? |
| 25 | Or you may sort of erm people who you do the same thing over and over again , the same sort of job , would you not agree a little bit of complacency can set in and erm things do n't perhaps come over quite as they should ? |
| 26 | Now Jean was pleased because I do sequence dancing which I learnt with my husband , and so now this coming September when we start back again , once a month I 'm going to teach some sequence dancing in the hope that some young ones would , will hear of it and , and join because then once you can sort of get them involved with one thing you may sort of get good numbers . |
| 27 | If you may sort of done it |
| 28 | Seven hundred and forty which you may card to ignore , that there are some base dwellings . |
| 29 | I thought that was very significant : you may cheek a dinner lady , but you do n't do so to someone you know and respect . |
| 30 | And while the messenger is on his errand , you may array yourself suitably . |