Example sentences of "[modal v] i please [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I please tell you what happened in class just now ? ’ |
| 2 | May I please have a drink ? |
| 3 | If Sheila 's letter is to be printed , may I please add a footnote . |
| 4 | But if he can manage it , may I please take him over to the island to look at the birds there ? |
| 5 | May I please correct one or two small inaccuracies in Rumer Godden 's interesting article on Lamb House ( The National Trust Magazine , autumn 1990 ) ? |
| 6 | May I please ask you to give a little time to thinking how best you personally can assist the Society to raise enough funds before the end of this year to complete our Development Plan for 1988 ? |
| 7 | May I please use your pages to thank everybody who made a donation to my collection towards insulated sleeping mats for London 's homeless ? |
| 8 | May I please support the Sheriff 's stand on this matter as the speed limit legislation seems to be based on remarkably little logic ? |
| 9 | Could I please change two hundred dollars ? |
| 10 | Could I please quote from the Bargaining Report Document dated twenty seventh of April nineteen ninety three which says , and I quote , works councils , elected bodies representing the whole workforce are becoming an increasing interest to the U K trade unionists and this par this in part because of the growing awareness of industrial relation structures in the rest of the E C. |
| 11 | Could I please draw attention er you already chairman have , but it 's important from where I stand to draw attention to the words of the second criterion of the P P G. Which says that the proposal is a clear expression of local preference supported by the local planning authorities . |
| 12 | Er , there is a a little orange leaflet which has been placed on the seats during the day that many of you , I hope , already have er , for anyone who has n't may I perhaps place these on the front table , there 's a the , there 's another supply over there and , could I please ask that some responsible representative from each district would please take a few more of these away with you so that they are distributed in district meetings in the near future , and attention drawn to them there er , if there are not enough copies er , then I 'm sure the provincial office on receiving a , a request from you will make sure there 's more that passed on to you . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , and could I please have the hot-water ration today , Mama ? |
| 14 | So could I please see the Master and arrange it as quickly as possible ? ’ |
| 15 | And would I please stop publishing on psychoanalysis and leave it to my elders and betters . |
| 16 | Would I please see Deputy Head before dinner . |
| 17 | Well will I please make them an apple pie |
| 18 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 19 | Can I please urge you to visit the exhibition hall during the course of congress . |
| 20 | So — can I please appeal to those of you ( teachers and class members ) who are having difficulty in deciding just what fund raising ideas to put into operation — 1985 is now upon us — and — Time Flies ’ . |
| 21 | Girls , can I please persuade you not to touch the dish , whatever else if you need slide it then use , you see that |
| 22 | Before we leave this Mr , can I please ask you if you accept what Mr has said in paragraph three of his statement B three double O two , the statement on behalf of the Parish Council ? |
| 23 | And can I please recommend you speak to your finance and admin people and they will say , now do n't expect to be saying , oh that 'll be no problem , because we na , we ai n't got a F and A like that , they 're always to caution , you know . |