Example sentences of "i may " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever .
2	I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can .
3	I have decided , however , in the interests of posterity , to cut nothing , though I may take the liberty of annotating the text here and there , putting some of the facts straight and referring the reader to related documents , such as interviews you once gave or books and articles on you which have since appeared .
4	A myrrour of glasse , that I may prene therin ;
5	‘ If I may say so your sister was particularly emphatic on the point . ’
6	I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life .
7	I 'd like to give her a ring if I may ? ’
8	‘ I 'd like to take it if I may .
9	Please can you tell me where I may purchase some dog 's tooth violets .
10	Do you consider that I may have committed a disciplinary offence ?
11	‘ I 'll call you tomorrow , ’ said Lucy , then she whispered , ‘ Only I may not be able to give you a date . ’
12	‘ I may not be screwing Lucy , ’ said Jay coldly .
13	I may even learn to tango !
14	Someday I may meet another mammoth .
15	Just watch it , said Jay , sipping brandy , breathing fire , I may just stomp you with my hairy great mammoth foot .
16	The sceptic might , at this point , complain that while I may have sketched out the functionalist position , I have not provided any convincing arguments as to why one should believe it .
17	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 .
18	The Japanese patenting of the Technics Class AA circuit was quite unknown to me , not having associated their advertisements for Class AA with anything I may have done until I read John Linsley Hood 's article in this journal for December 1989 .
19	I am all too ready to admit that I may have misunderstood what I have read in modern French theory ; the problem is in getting any minimal intellectual purchase on it at all .
20	And I may dine at journey 's end
21	I realise that , if I am accepted , once I have completed my degree I may often have to work for over 80 hours at a stretch during a weekend on call .
22	I may sing like Marcel Marceau , but it was never a style .
23	Interviewed last year , Gagosian responded to the accusation that he had made transparencies of paintings reproduced in art magazines and offered them for sale as ‘ a scurrilous charge ’ — but he went on to admit ‘ Well , I may have done it once . ’
24	I turned and gave him a wave , ‘ Do n't wait up for me , I may be late . ’
25	I may as well stick it out to the end .
26	Enough if I have shown that if we care to do so , we can illustrate the second as well as the first half of what I may call the Plowden proposition .
27	‘ I may not be as much with my family as I should be , but at least I am at home , ’ he reasons .
28	Any scandal I may commit in my period out of my home would seriously affect my younger brothers and sisters .
29	That 'll do for now , but I may want to talk to you again . ’
30	He paused and then said , not realising the effect his words would have , ‘ I may go along and see this Vigo . ’

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