Example sentences of "may [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a doleful … sound heard before the deaths of may and most likely to be heard before foul weather . |
| 2 | Paul , I will write to you when I may and somehow we will arrange a meeting . |
| 3 | But that one should have believed something in a hypothetical situation may and often is used as part of an argument to establish what one should now believe . |
| 4 | Truly sir we may and then he wanted you to get really quite excited . |
| 5 | It follows that any work with children may and very probably will have sexual implications . |
| 6 | What develops may and usually does have some similarity to what was danced as a student . |
| 7 | It may if more better-off households remain in the urban cores , but to what extent does this trend mean that even more disadvantaged groups will be trapped in the inner cities ? |
| 8 | For secondary school pupils , database creation may as yet mean very little outside the computer studies department but , on encountering some examples of databases in S1/S2 , they may remember similar exercises with football terms or animals in primary school . |
| 9 | If you 're going to take a break it may as well be a clean one . |
| 10 | May as well live in the present , that 's what I say . |
| 11 | They being agreed , one may as well go back to the ‘ finger in the wind ’ ! |
| 12 | I may as well stick it out to the end . |
| 13 | ‘ May as well use the lift , ’ said Burden with a trace of self-consciousness . |
| 14 | ‘ Since we 've come so far , ’ he said , ‘ we may as well have another chat with Mrs Hatton . ’ |
| 15 | Come on now , you may as well tell us . |
| 16 | ‘ Since I 'm home , ’ she said , ‘ I may as well do my duty . |
| 17 | ‘ We may as well start at the top , then . ’ |
| 18 | Your hair may be well cut , but if you 're a trendy executive and your latest hairdo is just that tiny bit mumsy , you may as well hibernate for a few months . |
| 19 | ‘ They may as well call it ‘ Women who do n't wear make-up ’ , ’ she chuckles . |
| 20 | Once you lose sight of land , you may as well be in space . ’ |
| 21 | And the translations are so incredibly liberal , there may as well be no original text at all . |
| 22 | The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant . |
| 23 | If Klepner 's gon na get his job he may as well do the spiel . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've had several more since this morning , I may as well tell you . ’ |
| 25 | May as well go to bed in a drunken stupor after dinner , same as the rest of them . |
| 26 | You may as well forget the idea of banning things . |
| 27 | Never think that you have blown your exercise schedule so you may as well not bother going back to it . |
| 28 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 29 | We may as well find out . |
| 30 | Infuriating it may be , but you may as well shrug your shoulders as the locals do and accept that these things are part and parcel of travel overseas . |