Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [pron] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if you are angry and rude , Mrs Reed may send you away , ’ added Bessie . |
| 2 | An expedition , I should say , which I will undertake alone , in the comfort of Mr Farraday 's Ford ; an expedition which , as I foresee it , will take me through much of the finest countryside of England to the West Country , and may keep me away from Darlington Hall for as much as five or six days . |
| 3 | And you , Rose , if you want to be useful you may keep everyone away , run any errands I may require , and take over from , or help McAllister , when I tell you to . |
| 4 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 5 | Too little water brings minerals to the surface and leaves them there in an inhibiting layer ; too much water may leach them away altogether , though that is seldom a problem in polar soils . |
| 6 | ‘ You may take him away . |
| 7 | And we 've allowed for the fact that cooking for a family or organising a dinner party may take you away from the cooker when you want the food to go on cooking . |
| 8 | Parents may hold their babies close and convey love for and admiration of their bodies , or they may hold them away and register distaste , even disgust , for some of their bodily functions . |
| 9 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 10 | Yet if I say I love him , she thought , watching his capable hands on the wheel , I may frighten him away . |
| 11 | You may find yourself away from home having fun this evening . |
| 12 | You may find yourself away from home having fun this evening . |
| 13 | You may find yourself away from home having fun . |