Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you 're really stuck and you 've got a third question that you ca n't come up with I mean y'know sort of blur it , fudge it and make it look like there 's a sort of metamorphic answer there and we can sort of say well that 's sort of twenty percent or something and then that counts and it may carry you over . |
| 2 | It may calm you down . ’ |
| 3 | This is the cheaper option , but it may leave you stuck with single glazing and a recurrence of your existing maintenance problems in a few years time . |
| 4 | That gives you time to get your head together , to pick up any appropriate notes that you may want , it may mean you want to actually consult somebody else . |
| 5 | It may involve you in extra duties and worries at first : for instance , you may have to take the patient to his workplace by car , and collect him again , and the timing may not be convenient for you . |
| 6 | It may tell you that your batteries are good , but it does n't say how long they will remain so ! |
| 7 | It may offer you important savings on your logistical costs , compared with shipping directly via the nearest port ! |
| 8 | It may strike you as rather remarkable that this is possible , but the mathematicians assure us that it can be done . |
| 9 | It may strike you as unusual but , once mastered , it can be used very quickly and effectively for a variety of purposes : |
| 10 | Some aspects of it may shock you . ’ |
| 11 | It may predispose the interviewer to accept you if nothing untoward is revealed at the interview , or it may prevent you from ever reaching that stage . |
| 12 | It will therefore affect what happens during the interview , and if it is not done well enough it may prevent you reaching the interview stage at all . |
| 13 | And what good it may bring you God alone knows ! ’ |
| 14 | It may bring you much closer together , as for Carol and Alan . |
| 15 | ‘ It may land you in something you did n't bargain for . |
| 16 | Moreover , ’ he continued , ‘ perhaps it may give you some time to reflect on the Lady Maude . ’ |
| 17 | In order to understand your conflicting emotions , it may pay you to seek some help from a counsellor . |
| 18 | It may make you want to ask the caterer if the coronation chicken was free range . |
| 19 | If you can stand the pace and the heat , Bangkok is a very rewarding place to visit , although it may make you feel like taking a week afterwards to lie on a beach and recover . |
| 20 | ‘ I expect it is , but it 's the truth , and you 're the last person to condemn me for telling the truth , even though it may offend you to hear it . ’ |
| 21 | It may take you several weeks to refine the answers . |
| 22 | Show me any homebuilder who ca n't say the same thing about his project , but the finish-it-in-thirty-days-using-only-domestic-handtools ! brochures never tell you that , nor that it may take you weeks just to create the right kind of workplace in which to build your masterpiece . |
| 23 | Now central conference , by the time you went through all the stages of procedure it may take you ei possibly six to nine months , in some cases , sometimes it was held earlier . |
| 24 | ‘ It may take you weeks , months , even years . |
| 25 | And it may tempt you into a mid-morning snack of chocolate biscuits or worse . |
| 26 | It may interest you to know that until last highlights from the previous day 's Five Nations Championship games were shown on the nationwide seven o'clock news every Sunday evening in China . |
| 27 | ‘ It may interest you to know that I , too , am developing a theory , Doctor . |
| 28 | ‘ It may interest you to learn , oh Wise and Wonderful One , ’ said Cassie tartly , ‘ that we 've only just got rid of a woman Prime Minister . |
| 29 | ‘ It may interest you to know that I 've just had Mr Standish on the phone . |
| 30 | It may interest you to be reminded that around 1911 a rather similar crisis was facing the newly emerging car industry . |