Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may hurt yourself when you hit the ground , or your opponent may be so close that he or she can hit you immediately . |
| 2 | One danger of having both eggs and pollen in the same structure is that the plant may pollinate itself and so anticipate and prevent cross-fertilisation , the very purpose of all these complexities . |
| 3 | Let's go , let's cover ourselves in glory — in Africa , ’ and his usually mild tones rose in indignation . |
| 4 | With the hot spell set to continue , doctors now fear some people may expose themselves to the risk of skin cancer.Gareth Furby reports . |
| 5 | As we have seen , such organisations tend to be dominated by formal rules and by committees which may lend themselves to the more autocratic style of leadership . |
| 6 | Finally , the information found may lend itself to various forms of presentation , ranging from fact sheets to some kind of argument for or against various issues . |
| 7 | The object may lend itself equally to the expression of difference , indicating the separate domains to which people or aspects of people belong , and to the expression of unity , connecting otherwise diverse domains . |
| 8 | Acute , function-related pain is primarily sensory or peripheral , and may lend itself to treatment with analgesics directed to the involved organ . |
| 9 | ‘ Well now , Barney , ye may think yerself an old man but I do n't think of meself as such ! ’ he exclaimed testily . |
| 10 | She may think herself wasted in a world where good help is hard to find . |
| 11 | Negative attitudes are sometimes rationalised and disguised as concern , emphasising that disabled people may damage themselves by undertaking such demanding work ( Safilios-Rothschild , 1976 ; French , 1986a ) . |
| 12 | In the same way we may stress ourselves at work , causing ulcers , backache and nervous breakdowns in the process , but for what ? |
| 13 | The agricultural experts pushing crop substitution programmes may congratulate themselves on Pakistan 's declining opium output , but the truth is that the country is now specialising more in processing and marketing . |
| 14 | If her personality tends to be an obsessive one — if she is excessively devoted to tidiness and perfect order in every part of her life and home , a great maker of ‘ lists ’ for everything and a habitual ‘ double-checker ’ in all her activities — you may find that although she is grieving deeply , she may throw herself with remarkable zeal into the business of ‘ tidying up ’ her husband 's financial affairs and concentrating even more strongly on getting everything in the house cleaned and polished ; for this is the method used by most people who are inclined to be obsessional , to control their anxiety . |
| 15 | Can not concede that it had been possible and neither will shift in how we communicate and view the place of the Royals in our society and what the are and how those P R shifts a phrase in terms of let's make ourselves more public , let's make ourselves more accessible , have resulted in that because their very their very accessibility is the those kind of radio programmes to happen . |
| 16 | Can not concede that it had been possible and neither will shift in how we communicate and view the place of the Royals in our society and what the are and how those P R shifts a phrase in terms of let's make ourselves more public , let's make ourselves more accessible , have resulted in that because their very their very accessibility is the those kind of radio programmes to happen . |
| 17 | Apart from the fact that Asiatic birth rates flourish and will continue to flourish , that the population of Russia may double itself to over 320000000 before decline begins , there is evidence of resistance [ to a declining birth rate ] in Germany and Raly . ’ |
| 18 | The solitary adults may wander over vaguely defined home ranges , or they may restrict themselves to clearly defined and defended territories . |
| 19 | If it is true that no man knows what may befall him , nor how he may make himself safe against all future evils , is it not therefore the wisest course to make no provision , but to live in the present experience only ? |
| 20 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 21 | From this stage until the plants are large enough to take care of themselves , filamentous algae may make itself a nuisance , becoming entangled in the delicate young foliage . |
| 22 | An acquiring company may burden itself with responsibility for pollution , product liability and employers ' liability , where the liability accrued perhaps twenty or thirty years ago , but the claims are only now beginning . |
| 23 | Of two prisoners in goal , one may hang himself , the other go on hunger strike : the former is committing a positive act , the latter an act of passive resistance . |
| 24 | Emotions , and particularly conflicting emotions , are powerful in their ascendance over intellect and they may display themselves more accurately through the body than through words . |
| 25 | Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same , notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped , unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board : Provided , that the master or other person … may exonerate himself … by showing that it was caused without any default on his part , and wholly by the fraud of the shipper or the holder , or some person under whom the holder claims . |
| 26 | He may consider himself to be a latter-day President Kennedy , or be tempted to follow the pro-IRA line taken by Senator Edward Kennedy . |
| 27 | If an honest attempt is made in one 's own little world to make this strive a living force without being crushed under foot by one 's contemporaries , then one may consider oneself and the community to which one belongs lucky . |
| 28 | The Soviets may rob themselves of their own best potential in this way . |
| 29 | Er , that 's alright , let's behave ourselves , I says what about us , we 've been here since quarter to ten waiting for you to come . |
| 30 | You may suit yourself on that one ! |