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Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Handling and using them may give a sense of the past .
2	The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple .
3	For a company to profit , everyone must have a job that can be clearly and succinctly described in less than forty words .
4	Why everyone should make a will
5	Magical , mystical , fascinating and colourful , the culture and way of life in the Orient is so very different from our own that everyone should pay a visit at least once during their lifetime .
6	‘ Everyone should have a grandmother like yours .
7	Everyone should have a GP , but it can be difficult to find one if you use drugs .
8	‘ Perhaps everyone should have a weakness , ’ Jessamy said slowly .
9	If a decision has been taken about liability for emotional injury one way or the other , and there can be no controversy what decision that is , then everyone should have a right that that decision be enforced until it is publicly disavowed in the same way .
10	‘ I think everyone should have a donor card because , when your life has gone , you could save someone else 's .
11	So everyone every everyone everyone should have a copy of the questions in their book just to tell what they 've worked on .
12	Everyone should have a chain fixed to the front door .
13	No-one should buy a property solely on the strength of the initial particulars .
14	If I may make a return by listening to your troubles , I am very willing to do so . ’
15	As you will know I may make a reference under this section when I desire the opinion of the Court , not on the whole case but on a point arising on it .
16	While all this talk of constitutional change is in the air — Kinnock proposes to abolish the House of Lords and dismember the United Kingdom , as well as to forbid the whole country from hunting — I wonder if I may make a proposal .
17	I may make a mess of this but that does n't mean I 'm stupid .
18	‘ If I may make a suggestion , ’ Horowitz , also standing , addressed Evans .
19	I do hope I may remain a member ?
20	A bias , if I may coin a phrase , against the obvious .
21	‘ Actually , ’ Morton said hesitantly , ‘ if I may borrow a phrase from some distinguished bon viveur whose name I have forgotten , nowadays I like my fruit a little green . ’
22	I am very sure that you will agree with me , if I may borrow a phrase from Joyce , that we all hope that it 's not at all unlikely that George Craig will come again to preach .
23	Well , I may send a telegram if I can work a few days off at Athens .
24	If I may anticipate a point which , I know from experience , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) may in due course seek to make , those increases mean that , when looked at alongside the extra help that we have made available in the past four years through income-related benefits for the less well-off families with children , which will amount to some £600 million next year , total expenditure on help to families next year will be higher than if we had simply increased child benefit each year since 1987-88 .
25	I may get a mention . ’
26	I may need a bit of help .
27	Sometimes I may spend a week just looking for something I want . ’
28	I wonder whether I may ask a question relating to your personal experience rather than I B M per se .
29	Dealing generally with the question of art teaching , when addressing himself to the abortive attempt to found a Fine Art course at Oxford in 1922 , he postulated that art schools should , above all else avoid , ‘ The temptation to consider the number of students as a test of success , what I may call a kind of moral and social capitation grant .
30	She rode along , swaggering like a man , till she came to where the lane turned into the field , and there she called out as bold as brass : now , please the powers I may find a tiger in the field !