Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back and forth Fru Møller passed from the Hall to the kitchen , replenishing the bread-baskets , the toast-racks , the milk jugs and cream pots , enquiring , ‘ Fräulein Baum , may I offer you a soft-boiled egg ? ’ |
| 2 | May I offer you a warming glass ? ’ |
| 3 | I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on his courageous stand against the 11 who opposed him , but may I ask him a simple question ? |
| 4 | As this will be the last magazine until late August , may I wish you a restful summer . |
| 5 | Stop , do please inform me when you have been privatized and my , may I wish you a smooth change over . |
| 6 | As an acquaintance wrote later : Have fought and won the hardest fight of all , why should he fear anything a human foe or fate itself could threaten ? |
| 7 | Could I give you a better pledge ? ’ |
| 8 | Could I ask you a personal question , if it 's not too rude — what do you think about when you 're lying in the bath ? |
| 9 | And er , could you tell me a little bit about your family ? |
| 10 | Now er Now could you tell me a little bit about your school life ? |
| 11 | Er could you tell me a little bit about the schools you went to ? |
| 12 | Could you tell me a little bit about when you first moved to Harlow , because it interests me very much the fact , I did n't , I was n't aware that you lived in a , house that was |
| 13 | Could you tell me a little bit about that ? |
| 14 | erm Could you tell me a little bit about that ? |
| 15 | Now could you tell us a little bit about your brothers and sisters ? |
| 16 | Could could you explain what a principal beat officer is ? |
| 17 | Could you give me a few examples ? |
| 18 | Could you give me a brief resume of the work involved . |
| 19 | ‘ Could you give me a half a day 's holiday tomorrow , Joe ? |
| 20 | ‘ Frank , could you do me a big favour and see if you can find who this guy Azul is ? ’ |
| 21 | Could you do us a real favour ? |
| 22 | Could she survive it a second time ? |
| 23 | Could he give them a few facts about himself for the company 's press release ? |
| 24 | Could he drop me a few grams on credit ? |
| 25 | ‘ Would you show me a little bit of this and a little bit of that ? |
| 26 | Would you tell me a wee bit about that ? |
| 27 | Would you give them a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover for a shorter period , looking at them making up the difference perhaps later when they could afford it , or would you give them initially a reduced amount of life cover , say eighty thousand , for the eighteen years ? |
| 28 | Would you give them a key position of accountability in your team ? |
| 29 | ‘ I said , ’ Daffodil said to me distinctly , ‘ would you bring me a clean knife ? |
| 30 | Shall we give them a nice sweet , hot cup of coffee ? |