Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them add to the quality of life of the residents , and many of them may also help you enjoy your work too . |
| 2 | What pleases me may not please you , and my recommendation may disappoint you — and then what would you think ? |
| 3 | There was a long silence before Ipuky continued , ‘ What is said about me should not concern you . |
| 4 | She was already determined that nothing should ever frighten her . |
| 5 | As coach Roddan says : ‘ The race is so short that nothing can be allowed to go wrong — and nothing must ever distract them . ’ |
| 6 | Mr , I I I have many matter to consider in my report , so I let's not widen it even further into this rather wider philosophical matter . |
| 7 | Anything that I may lawfully do I may also lawfully threaten to do , whatever the motive or purpose of my threat . |
| 8 | ‘ I may even give you some more . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I may even give you a bonus if Silvia does well in her exams . ’ |
| 10 | In fact I may even have them be in here . |
| 11 | I may well take you up on the offer . ’ |
| 12 | I may well keep you here for your entertainment value . ’ |
| 13 | when I say ‘ I am cold ’ I may just mean I am cold and it may not be a statement about my view of myself with regard to society and my particular stage of middle age crisis and so on and so forth , although , you know , given a certain number of intelligent people they could no doubt build an enormous emphasis on |
| 14 | I may just mean I am cold and |
| 15 | If I may just refer you sir to er my appendix which it actually the last page of your papers erm er if you see on it is actually page numbered thirty one and it 's paragraph thirteen thirty six at the very back of the papers . |
| 16 | Just watch it , said Jay , sipping brandy , breathing fire , I may just stomp you with my hairy great mammoth foot . |
| 17 | ‘ I accept your favour , my lady , although I may not wear it on my sleeve as a true knight should . |
| 18 | ‘ And if I may not have you permanently , then a little temporary use would satisfy me , I think . ’ |
| 19 | Well I may not , I may not find it as good , do n't , they always show you clips as trailers of the best bit 's . |
| 20 | They stopped just beyond the steps of the food office and , all the irritation seeming to flow from him , he looked at her meekly now as he said , ‘ I may not see you again for weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ Connie , I may not see you again . |
| 22 | I may not like it . |
| 23 | Now if I am a good reporter , in a sense I 'm going to let the original question flow past me as a starter , I may use it , I may not use it . |
| 24 | I no longer vociferously challenge those who insult ; instead , I may casually invite them to come for a coffee and see/meet some students . |
| 25 | a short preambulum … so that I may gradually learn it by heart . |
| 26 | It really should not strike you as odd that I have been enquiring into your affairs — if I may so phrase it . |
| 27 | My dear friend — if I may so describe him — the previous Foreign Secretary , who resigned from the right hon. Lady 's Government over Europe , was equally thrilled , although he did not express himself — he never does — in quite such colourful language . |
| 28 | Dear Bill ( if I may so call you ) |
| 29 | For another thing , the region is one of the edge of things if I may so put it and that 's why I 'm down here I mean as , as I know when we 're up there we 're at the centre of things , but lots of people do n't |
| 30 | But there it is , and outside and foreign firms will put money in , especially if subsidized by temporary government measures , for as you know , public investment in private industry is judged to be ideologically correct , while public investment for public and community concerns is judged ideologically to be harmful , but the firms are interested in making money out of the region if I may so put it , not in sustaining world promotion and healthy living in the region . |