Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stair thrust an arm around him , laid his head on Neil 's shoulder , and said , ‘ Let me treat you to a good ‘ un at Rachel 's , Neil , ’ which completed the destruction of any desire Neil might have had to treat himself . |
| 2 | ‘ May I refer you to an unimpeachable authority : Mr John Camden Hotten , author of a biography of Dickens , and also , he paused impressively , a life of Thackeray , refers to it in 1870 as Bleak House . |
| 3 | May I associate myself with the Prime Minister 's remarks about Queen Elizabeth II ? |
| 4 | Will I do it on the other side ? |
| 5 | Can I interest you in an aerial photograph of your house ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 7 | Can I take it towards the wrong one ? |
| 8 | Right , can I take you to the amended recommendation on page forty nine . |
| 9 | If I 'm allowed to have food , why ca n't I have it in the same cell as Elaine ? ’ |
| 10 | Tomorrow morning may I invite you to a complimentary breakfast of tinned yam , tinned pineapple , tinned paw-paw , Belgian coffee , German rolls , Swiss sugar and English butter processed and packed in Kenya ? |
| 11 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 12 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 13 | Can I press you to a candied starfish ? ’ |
| 14 | Could I put them in the soft box ? |
| 15 | May I illustrate it with a true instance of what one industrialist did , who took this challenge seriously . |
| 16 | May I ask you about a serious point of order , Mr. Speaker ? |
| 17 | Without warning she reached her hand sideways and took mine and pressed it , as if to give me courage ; and perhaps to make me identify her with the original , gentle Lily . |
| 18 | Eva could be snobby , that was obvious , but if I saw something , or heard a piece of music , or visited a place , I would n't be content until Eva had made me see it in a certain way . |
| 19 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 20 | Why could n't she treat him with the same cool indifference as he showed her ? |
| 21 | Fergus felt a surge of real anger now , because how dare she treat him as an inferior , how dare she speak to him as if he was no more than one of her serfs , a possession , a pawn , a thing . |
| 22 | So , what , what word do you make it into an open question ? |
| 23 | ‘ Ah , Gina … how could you compare me with an insensitive brute like that ? ’ |
| 24 | How could she describe herself as a revolutionary , a serious person , if she were a thief ? |
| 25 | Would you trust him/her to a permissive relationship with contemporary television ? |
| 26 | How do you know which of the thousands of children 's books published every year are best for your own , individual children ? |
| 27 | ‘ Would you know it from a real Poussin ? ’ |
| 28 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 29 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’ |
| 30 | I said well do you know anybody with a good ? |