Example sentences of "[modal v] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | May I on behalf of the House offer our deepest sympathy to those who were injured and hope that they have a speedy recovery ? |
2 | May I on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends point out that the disgraceful barracking and shouting which came from the mob opposite during the reply was clearly an exercise orchestrated by the Labour Whips ? |
3 | May I as a regular reader of Pilot use its pages to announce and advertise a project of great interest to me and , I hope , to a few other Scottish pilots and aviation aficionados ? |
4 | May I through The Lifeboat thank any readers who responded to my letter in the Spring 1991 issue concerning the breakage of a plate in the ‘ Heroes of the Sea ’ series to whom I have not replied personally . |
5 | May I through the Journal , say thank you to all my friends and colleagues who contributed to my retirement present [ camcorder ] — a gift that 's much appreciated and will always remind me of my 32+ years at JS . |
6 | Sir , may I in particular you sir , thank you for the unfailing good humour with which you have conducted this enquiry . |
7 | So he sent a telegram to his wife saying : ‘ Am in Market Harborough — where ought I to be ? ’ and she , being a practical woman , sent a terse telegram with one word : ‘ Home ’ . |
8 | Ought I to be fearful for my life ? ’ |
9 | I honestly thought the ref should them in hand really . |
10 | In any case , why should someone with short hair styled by the most recently qualified , pay as much as someone with long hair looked after by their most expert ? |
11 | Why should someone from Scotland Yard be making inquiries about you ? |
12 | Erm should I at least be prepared to again stick something in the newsletter about . |
13 | We must none of us go alone until we get to sea . |
14 | Should none of these treatments work and other fish shows signs of distress , it is probably kinder to painlessly destroy . |
15 | What tasks or roles should you in fact delegate ? |
16 | And let me tell you this : should you in any way try to get in touch with me , even go to the partners and ask for my whereabouts , I swear before God — ‘ He now raised his hand in a dramatic fashion and paused before he added , ‘ See , I 'm taking an oath . |
17 | And should she at any time be incapacitated , Henry had to bring the books to her , and she would scrutinise every penny that went out or came in . |
18 | those long-term projection type issues as to what is the general vision , direction that they 're going in , and therefore what should we as a group be recommending to our manufacturing colleagues that they should be manufacturing . |
19 | Nobody cried for us , so why should we for Liverpool ? ’ |
20 | Why should we at Wimpey be bothered about the general health of the staff ? |
21 | should we in actual fact produce |
22 | And neither should they for those purposes make play with the values and ideals of Co-operation . |
23 | Should it at times carry more weight than bottom-up acoustic quality ? |
24 | February will be good , we should it before March . |
25 | I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary . |
26 | No unattached man , should he by some miracle present himself at Four Winds , would want to have anything to do with a dejected and increasingly agoraphobic young mother , still in her teens , and a baby whose fretfulness was beginning to get on even Harriet 's nerves . |
27 | Erm I mean we we have some left but I mean they 're mainly empty which does n't matter a lot I mean I 'll them for next year . |
28 | ‘ We 'll none of us be the same again , ’ she said . |
29 | and knowing they 'll none of them come ? |
30 | No , well you see they 'll it in their annual returns . |