Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [vb infin] them [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Just as he did earlier in the chapter , he warns Moses and Aaron to ‘ Get away from the midst of this congregation , that I may consume them in a moment . ’ |
2 | I may use them on Mrs occasionally . |
3 | If you have any other items you wish to raise at the meeting , please advise me beforehand so that I may include them on the agenda . |
4 | You may treat them as your children since they were two years old but if they 're not a blood relative of yours they wo n't be inheriting anything anyway however close they may be . |
5 | Please make copies of this so that you may use them at your convenience in the future to return information to the Council . |
6 | You may see them during the summer when they rest in Britain . |
7 | Some supermarkets sell them and you may find them in food halls . |
8 | Do n't forget , you may need them to be there for you , another time , another place ! |
9 | For suppose that the disuse of meat causes a permanent distaste for it , and that an increased demand for fish continues long enough to enable the forces by which its supply is governed to work out their action fully ( of course oscillation from day to day and from year to year would continue : but we may leave them on the side ) . |
10 | We get quite used to our domestic dog actually bringing us sticks and balls so that we may throw them for our four-legged companion to retrieve . |
11 | ‘ Forget about the bullets , we may find them in the morning . ’ |
12 | Even John Henry Newman wrote this about animals : ‘ We may use them , we may destroy them at our pleasure . |
13 | Often we may equate them with more formal partnerships which fall by the wayside after only a short existence ; except that in their breakdown the feelings of guilt , humiliation and bitterness may occur even more strongly than when an " honest " attempt is felt to have been made . |
14 | I 've a feeling we may need them before this is over . ’ |
15 | Those of us who enjoy them need only a name for each condition , so that we may discuss them in expectation and in recollection . |
16 | Mail-order firms invariably have an arrangement whereby , if customers are not satisfied with the goods received , they may return them at the firm 's expense without any questions being raised . |
17 | If proceedings are commenced by the wrong originating process , eg by summons rather than by originating application , such a breach of the rules is not necessarily fatal — thecourt may set the proceedings aside or it may allow them to be amended and give such directions as it thinks fit ( Ord 37 , r 5 ) . |
18 | The goons have discovered part of an old dismantled ladder which we 'd used for earlier trials and we think it may put them onto something . ’ |
19 | He may shadow them for two weeks , gradually getting closer and closer . |