Example sentences of "you may [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |
| 2 | And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same … |
| 3 | Although you may normally take the view that there is never a best time for spending money , retirement planning is different in that sooner or later you will need , or want , to make certain purchases — or pay off outstanding commitments , such as a mortgage . |
| 4 | Otherwise you may completely ruin your kitchen table or working surface ! |
| 5 | Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream and Hamlet would be a good starting point — As You Like It , Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar you may already be familiar with , as they are often set for O level courses . |
| 6 | You may already know someone . |
| 7 | Do n't forget — the £22,250 Extra Prize ( which you may already have won ) and the £27,750 ‘ Early Bird' Prize can be claimed only within the next SEVEN days . |
| 8 | Just about every retail purchase you make with the Card is immediately covered by Purchase Protection against accidental damage , loss or theft for up to 90 days and begins where any existing cover you may already have leaves off , up to £20,000 per Cardmember . |
| 9 | What about any claims that may come to light in the future , for instance in relation to products that you may already have bought from the company ? |
| 10 | If your back gives you trouble , you may already have decided that finding a cure is as elusive as the Holy Grail , and that learning how to prevent back pain , and cope with it when it is unavoidable is the best way of living with it . |
| 11 | Certainly such things that you may already have done , such as approaching the site along the right sacred path and clearing litter are valid rituals in their own right . |
| 12 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
| 13 | • My advice is to resist the impulse to buy Swan Mussels for your pond ( you wo n't see them anyway ) , and get rid of any you may already have . |
| 14 | If you 're a composer , you may already have composed music for an AV production of some sort . |
| 15 | There is no need whatsoever to spend large amounts of money on flower pressing equipment , since the majority of items are either very inexpensive or are things you may already have around the house . |
| 16 | By this stage , you may already have booked into a dog training class . |
| 17 | You may already have a flying toaster screen saver and animated cursors , but I bet you have n't got a screen save that displays full motion video . |
| 18 | You may already have life insurance , but that will usually only pay out if you die . |
| 19 | Figure 12 shows an example of a line graph with which you may already be familiar from the other units of your course . |
| 20 | You may already have commitments — to a family , to a partner . |
| 21 | ‘ You may already know . ’ |
| 22 | You may already have written to Mr Popham to ask him to act in this way . |
| 23 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 24 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , ’ said the Company Manager , ‘ you may already have heard that Miss Decker was taken ill at the end of the first act . |
| 25 | You may already know exactly what 's inside your box , but be unsure how others function . |
| 26 | I wonder if , even at this late stage , it might be possible to arrange for the loan of an item from your collections for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer , of which you may already be aware . |
| 27 | You may already have a good idea , when planning your new kitchen , of the type of operation you want , but unless you have previous experience of designing a kitchen , there could be problems in store . |
| 28 | As you may already know — we have held some single premium bonds since 1966 , but would now like to amalgamate and increase this holding . |
| 29 | Okay just before we go first we get a copy of er exam papers , this is from G you may already have a copy oh blast |
| 30 | Now at the back of the re , rest of that packet , erm , in front of the vinyl cardboard but you may already have extracted this , you 'll find two sets of pre-printed labels . |