Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed like having children , the experience may bring you eyeball to eyeball with some of the thoroughly unpleasant aspects of your own personality . |
| 2 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 3 | If you 're unlucky enough to have a machine that goes wrong regularly , a service contract may save you hundreds of pounds . |
| 4 | A controversial decision may cost you votes , but a courageous decision will lose you the election . |
| 5 | Consider if faith in God and prayer may help you — and your teenagers . |
| 6 | If you have it in you to comment on our times through humour , generally of the deflationary sort , then combining this with a crime story may bring you extra dividends . |
| 7 | This true story may encourage you : Some years ago , after what he now describes as " no education " Alan got a job as a messenger boy in a London agency . |
| 8 | The Index at the back of the book will direct you to the details , but if you are only aware of a symptom , this checklist may help you to diagnose the plumbing problem . |
| 9 | The term recruitment consultants does imply ‘ high flyer ’ and this description may lead you to organisations with an interest in placing nurses in particular specialties , in management positions , or abroad . |
| 10 | Damages for breach of contract should put you as nearly as possible in the position that you would have occupied had your contract been performed properly — but no better . |
| 11 | Then fall down to the left and shift right ; the ghost should follow you down and scare the blue guard away . |
| 12 | If you are reading this book before starting on your higher studies , the present chapter may cause you to decide not to study Law at all , or not to specialise in it . |
| 13 | A call to your local Trading Standards Department may give you information about the state of the business and your next step . |
| 14 | The following books on different aspects of dealing with stressful tension may give you new ideas . |
| 15 | The following case study may give you some idea of what is involved . |
| 16 | During the check period , the Inland Revenue may allow you conditional non-resident status ; and if they are satisfied , full status will be granted retrospectively . |
| 17 | In special circumstances , the law of equity may enable you to seek an injunction or declaration , with a view to restraining your employer from carrying out his threat . |
| 18 | For example , being born in a neighbourhood may entitle you to a higher place in the queue for housing provided by that local authority . |
| 19 | The result may surprise you . |
| 20 | At an ounce or so over 1½ lbs , its lack of weight may surprise you too . |
| 21 | What pleases me may not please you , and my recommendation may disappoint you — and then what would you think ? |
| 22 | The Lexis search may refer you to source material that you have in your library but it also contains unreported cases . |
| 23 | The Law Society is now positively encouraging articles in commerce and industry and your Careers Adviser should keep you up-dated on the possibilities . |
| 24 | The distress of your loss might make you see things . |
| 25 | Now listen to what we 're going to do now , we 're going to mummy 'll get you some dinner in a minute , are you hungry ? |
| 26 | Will you stay here and Mummy 'll get you a sweater to put on . |
| 27 | The estate agent might tell you what the seller will accept , but you can make a lower offer . |
| 28 | And a nice cup of tea 'll make you feel better . |
| 29 | But while we 're on the subject a dose of hard living might do you the world of good . ’ |
| 30 | An image consultant such as Public Persona could point you in the right direction . |