Example sentences of "[modal v] i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I visit you in the evenings , or will you come for a walk with me on Sundays ? |
| 2 | May I refer him to the reports on economic purchasing issued in December 1992 and February this year by my counterpart in Great Britain , Professor Littlechild , for an indication of the complexities involved in this type of exercise ? |
| 3 | And for the benefit of those readers who are persuaded by his arguments ( and those who are not , too ) , may I refer you to a letter from Simon Kyte appealing for financial and professional help for the Humanitarian Appeal for Victims of the Yugoslav Civil War . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Before you consider the document , may I remind you of a letter that you received from the convenor of Stirling district council ? |
| 6 | Although regretting the need for such prosecutions , may I congratulate him on the vigour with which he prosecutes those who peddle such odious doctrines ? |
| 7 | May I illustrate it with a true instance of what one industrialist did , who took this challenge seriously . |
| 8 | May I ask you about a serious point of order , Mr. Speaker ? |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Should I lay them on the doorstep and vamoose before she responded to the bell ? |
| 11 | Should I do it on the back of that ? |
| 12 | Is removal straight forward , or should I leave it to the professionals ? |
| 13 | I flash upon my own family ; the way I have to think a moment before deciding who to include in my family , whether to include the step-parents or the siblings on my father 's side whom I would not know should I see them on the street , the hastiness of Mom and Larry on Sunday swirls between galleries and sushi , untapered by excess or sentimentality , busy with books and foreign films and the Sunday supplement of the New York Times , the wisdom of Ivy Leagues and schedules too dense to live by , to wake by , to sleep and breathe by . |
| 14 | ‘ Should I book 'em on a charge of indecent behaviour in a public place … or should I jes ’ book 'em into a motel an' let 'em git on with it ? ’ |
| 15 | " Can we get this one right on top there , or should I stick it round the back ? |
| 16 | Might I remind you of the work of Dr. Bowlby , who pointed out the effects of mother deprivation on children ? |
| 17 | Might I congratulate you on the birth of Henry , or Harry as I notice he is to be called from the announcement in the papers . |
| 18 | Might I ask you through the Chair ? |
| 19 | But might I trouble you for a cup of hot water ? ’ |
| 20 | And could I leave you with a poem ? |
| 21 | Could I have them as a friend/enemy ? ’ |
| 22 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 23 | Could I put them in the soft box ? |
| 24 | He went and bought a pack of cigarettes from the machine behind him , searched his pockets , then asked : ‘ Could I trouble you for a light , Miss ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Could I trouble you for a receipt ? ’ |
| 26 | Would I take him in the lorry ? yes I can do that for you . |
| 27 | ‘ Shall I leave you in the care of the good professor ? ’ |
| 28 | Allowing her to change the subject , he offered , ‘ Shall I meet you in the foyer after breakfast , say nine-thirty ? |
| 29 | Shall I accompany you on the violin ? |
| 30 | Shall I do it with a toothbrush and a ? |