Example sentences of "you [modal v] [vb infin] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | A night in a good hotel with many nationalities around you may bring you to your senses and perhaps you will not wish to return to the Hacienda de Nieve . ’ |
| 2 | If you have teenagers at home , planning a meal can be tricky ; you may think you have them pinned down , but one phone call and they are up and away to more exciting prospects . |
| 3 | You may think you have purse-netted every hole only for a bolting rabbit suddenly to push up through the snow as if from nowhere and make its bid to escape . |
| 4 | Although you may think you know what you want , sub-consciously you may want something else . |
| 5 | In fact , however complete a word list you may think you have , it will never give full coverage ( Sampson , 1989 ) . |
| 6 | You may think you just nursed me . |
| 7 | You may think you are a good enough driver to go over the speed limit , but you may also realise that a world in which everyone drove very fast might be a little on the dangerous side . |
| 8 | You may think you have to cut back on the necessities of life for a few days or cancel a treat you had promised yourself and the family . |
| 9 | You may think you 're quite good at solving mental problems . |
| 10 | Now you may know all about personal allowances or you may think you know all about personal allowances and I thought like that . |
| 11 | ‘ You may think you 've won , but I 'll have the last laugh . |
| 12 | You may think you are not wealthy enough . |
| 13 | You may think you 're obsessed , pal , with Miss Return to Your Roots over there … ’ |
| 14 | You may think you stand on your own , or have your own choices , or make your own fate , but you do not do so . |
| 15 | ‘ I warn you , major , you may think you are acting in the interests of your men , but all you are doing is ruining your own career . ’ |
| 16 | You may think you have problems now , but Vittorio can make them seem like fond memories . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You may think you do , but you know nothing about me ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You may think you can lie to me , but you ca n't go on lying to yourself , ’ he said with calm assurance . |
| 19 | I know you 're after Robert , but , although you may think you 'll succeed , I 'm here to warn you . ’ |
| 20 | You may think you are , but from one house to the next that you deal with it 's always different . |
| 21 | So you may think you 've half a tape left , which is , should be |
| 22 | Conversely , if you have a serious disagreement with your boss , it could so adversely affect your standing in the firm that you may decide you would be better off elsewhere . |
| 23 | You may feel you are moving very slowly , but in fact you will simply be counteracting a nervous tendency to rush headlong into everything and to lose control of what is going on . |
| 24 | Many people believe they owe it to their pet to be there at the end and , in retrospect , are glad that they were , yet you may feel you ca n't cope with witnessing this very sad event . |
| 25 | Dr ‘ Patterson ’ … patients here are very much consultant oriented , and no matter how much you may feel you 're on the right lines for treatment , they do expect to go along and see a consultant . |
| 26 | Having walked the Gorges of Kakouetta and then rested up in the benign landscape of Sainte-Engrâce , you may feel you have the legs back to inspect another of the spectacular limestone phenomena of the Upper Soule . |
| 27 | If it 's something you can answer quite easily , okay , you may feel you want to make a comment there and then . |
| 28 | You really are not so handsome as you promised to be ; and I have long wished , by conversation like this , to do away what mischief the flattering character I gave of you may expose you to . |
| 29 | Whichever you choose , you may believe you are responding to current fashion trends , but , in fact , both styles boast a long ancestry . |
| 30 | You may believe you 're inviolate , beyond the reach of lesser mortals , but you 're wrong . ’ |