Example sentences of "[be] so good as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He mentioned also that " The inhabitants of the town have been so good as to rebuild me the Court wall and make some improvements in the yard , and they are very desirous for the Company to lend their aid " . |
| 2 | JEWKES : O , you are very good , sir , very forgiving indeed , but come , I hope you will be so good as to take her to your bosom and that my tomorrow morning you 'll bring her to a better sense of her duty . |
| 3 | ‘ Now if the Major would be so good as to arrange a workroom , I can have the suit finished in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 4 | I shall be obliged to you if you will be so good as to let the bearer have my copy of the last year 's Transactions , in which you will greatly oblige , Sir , your most humble servant , Philip Miller . |
| 5 | Now if you will be so good as to let me pass . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Please be so good as to enlighten me . ’ |
| 7 | Would his Imperial Majesty the Shah be so good as to pause in Marrakesh on his way to the US ? |
| 8 | ‘ I think , sir , that it would be better if you — and Aycliffe also — would be so good as to leave us to settle matters to our mutual satisfaction . ’ |
| 9 | " Would you be so good as to ask Mr Lee to step out here please . |
| 10 | ‘ Kindly adjust the temperature , Mr Peckham , before it boils away , and then be so good as to ask Mr Pegg if he can spare the time to rejoin us . ’ |
| 11 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 12 | If you would be so good as to allow me a bucket of water , provide shirt and breeches , to be paid for when the meeting is over . ’ |
| 13 | If you have information to sell , be so good as to state your price , that I may be left in privacy . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps if you could be so good as to slip the jacket off , Major , we might complete the hanging of the trousers ? ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps you will be so good as to tell your guards to accompany me to the foot of the hill ? " |
| 16 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |
| 17 | I will pawn my life for her , she will never be so pert to your honour if you will be so good as to molest her no more . |
| 18 | BELVILLE : [ getting a little bored with PAMELA 's compliance ] You are very obliging , Pamela , but now be so good as to find some fault with me and say what you would wish me to do to appear more agreeable to you . |
| 19 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 20 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 21 | And as your Lordship is so good as to talk to some of the Agents that deal that way I shall be exceedingly obliged … if any thing can be done ’ . |
| 22 | Please be so good as to answer . ’ |
| 23 | Be so good as to enter . ’ |
| 24 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |