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You and might
You might need it.
`` You might as well wait here while I'm gone, so you can use my shower if you'd like ''.
You might try providing standard vacation time off but make the vacation pay depend on the number of hours worked in the previous year.
You might say we are in the nation-building business ''.
You might try looking into his wife too.
`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.
`` You might set up a dress shop in the living room ''.
You had to have convictions to lie down in the road in all those clothes and appear as though you might wish to turn yourself out of your own home.
`` You might treat it like the hiccups '', said Papa.
Sally is awed by Ben ’ s apparently glamorous life, but Ben wonders if he made the right choices and considers how things might have been (" The Road You Didn't Take ").
The drama also introduced and popularised the phrase: " You might very well think that ; I couldn't possibly comment.
You might make some inference about the probability of heads and whether the coin was fair.
" Similarly, Louie Kemp, in his article for Jewish Journal, wrote: " You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in " Apocalypse Now ," but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most.
The term " note " can be used in both generic and specific senses: one might say either " the piece ' Happy Birthday to You ' begins with two notes having the same pitch ," or " the piece begins with two repetitions of the same note.
If the player were to type certain phrases the bots may respond, typing " You bore me " might cause one of the bots to reply " You should have been here 3 hours ago !".
Speaking to her biographer, Parks noted, " You might just say Maxwell opened my eyes up.
While Nusach Ashkenaz does contain some kabbalistic elements, such as acrostics and allusions to the sefirot (" To You, God, is the greatness, and the might, and the glory, longevity ,..." etc.
You might have had a few laughs, but you've not learnt anything ".
Modality expresses the speaker's attitude toward the action or state given by the verb, especially with regard to degree of necessity, obligation, or permission (" You must go ", " You should go ", " You may go "), determination or willingness (" I will do this no matter what "), degree of probability (" It must be raining by now ", " It may be raining ", " It might be raining "), or ability (" I can speak French ").
For example, in a religious discussion between friends, one might say ( attempting humor ), " You might disagree, but in my reality, everyone goes to heaven.

You and have
`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.
`` You don't have to tell me '', flashed Cobb.
`` You may have seen me on TV '', she said.
You have probably experienced this.
You shall have food, water and rest ''.
`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.
You never heard nothin' like it: Kitty's gonna go have an abortion, and Kitty's gonna go away to a convent, and Kitty's this and Kitty's that like he was nuts or somethin', y'know ''??
As an Air Force psychiatrist put it: `` You can't have dry runs on this one ''.
`` You must have some security '', said a young clerk.
`` You could come down to the office once a day, look over a few exchanges, dictate an editorial, and then have the remainder of your time for your more serious literary labors.
You have just given me permission to leave France, which I did.
`` You have just enlisted for the ' Rhine Campaign ' ''.
You may do well to take notice, that besides the title to land between the English and the Indians there, there are twelve of the English that have subscribed their names to horrible and detestable blasphemies, who are rather to be judged as blasphemous than they should delude us by winning time under pretence of arbitration ''.
when the pope, trying no doubt to appeal to his better nature, said to him, `` You have already taken Normandy.
You have on more than one occasion praised the idea of a televised press conference and the chance it gives the people to form intelligent opinions.
`` You know I don't like my men to have other women.
You wouldn't have me throw the poor boy out on the street '', Eileen said when I needled her about it.
`` You have made the labor worth while '', he said to her, smiling.
`` You look like that picture I have at the office '', Mr. Jack had started.
You have heard him tell these young people that during his almost 50 years of service in the Congress he has seen the Kaisers and the Hitlers and the Mussolinis, the Tojos and Stalins and Khrushchevs, come and go and that we are passing on to them the freest Nation that mankind has ever known.
You should have a couple of training partners to stand by when you make your first experiments just for safety.
You will find that avocado is unlike any other fruit you have ever tasted.
You may have your boat of wood, canvas, plywood, plastic, or metal.
You still have time to drop a few hints about the gifts you'd appreciate most ; ;

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