Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The F-A will now decide whether it should take action against the men which may include banning them from football for life . |
| 2 | Comforts and consolations may appear to wean us from the gifts to the Giver . |
| 3 | ( The tidy-minded may like to date it from Petrucci 's publication of Bernardo Pisano 's Musica … sopra le canzone del petrarcha which actually occurred in 1520 . ) |
| 4 | Members of the parliament demanded in a 135-34 vote that Mr Yeltsin appear at the Congress tomorrow , when they may vote to remove him from office for declaring emergency rule and calling an April referendum . |
| 5 | The indications are , therefore , that Offa was engaged fairly intensively against the Welsh across the first twenty-five or so years of his reign and this may have prevented him from pursuing Mercian interests in eastern and south-eastern England too vigorously before the mid-780s . |
| 6 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 7 | Eadmer 's explanation of Anselm 's silence is interesting — indeed , he may have had it from Anselm himself : |
| 8 | They may cost you a couple of hundred quid , but they look as if your grandmother may have knitted them from one of her own patterns . |
| 9 | She also felt a commitment to those artists whose blatant and subjective rather than allegorical treatment of the subject matter may have excluded them from showing elsewhere . |
| 10 | Right , erm , ah , I think the best thing we can do is to look at the rate book for this question because you may have remembered it from er , you may not . |
| 11 | A regular checkup once or twice a year with a GP who had the time , the energy , and the resources to advise on preventative medicine as an integral part of the National Health Service , may have protected me from a heart attack . |
| 12 | My naïveté , my lack of experience , may have protected me from what would have been obvious to anyone else . |
| 13 | Our early encounters with power may have deterred us from ever wanting to use it in a similar way ; having suffered from a cold , distant father or a smothering mother , and inevitably having attributed power to these parents , we may well decide that power is a negative force and not for us . |
| 14 | A number are not known to be from previous material , and Wulfstan may have taken them from records of Cnut 's administration . |
| 15 | Today 's photo session may have taken us from dog track to town hall , from tube station to The Longest Market in Britain ( fact ! ) , but the travelling has n't covered the cracks in the area 's cultural structure . |