Example sentences of "[that] we may [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most schools that have gone grant maintained have declined to use the D S O. Now my concern is , erm that we 're not actually , when we come and compare with the outside world , we 're not actually giving the service that we may think we are . |
| 2 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We need to bring them into the light and recognise them so that we may dispatch them . ’ |
| 5 | Those of us who enjoy them need only a name for each condition , so that we may discuss them in expectation and in recollection . |
| 6 | ROS : Tell us where " t is , that we may take it thence and bear it to the chapel . |
| 7 | The first is that we may find it hard to suppose that facts can cause anything ; surely they are too inert to affect the way the world goes , even where that world is the merely mental world of beliefs . |
| 8 | We know also the son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true and we are |
| 9 | Come to us , God of love , that we may see you in the poor , the sick and the rejected . |