Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I conclude with a frightening thought for Labour . |
| 2 | May I ask for a seconder for that motion . |
| 3 | ‘ May I phone for a taxi to the hotel ? |
| 4 | Do you keep it or should I go to a larger store ? ’ |
| 5 | Should I go on a diet ? |
| 6 | WHY SHOULD I INVEST IN A PEP NOW ? |
| 7 | Should I stay with a cheat ? |
| 8 | What form of words should I use for a legacy to ACET ? |
| 9 | Should I launch into a discourse on why I did n't value male above female children ? |
| 10 | I said , ‘ Why should I listen to an actor who lost the Oscar to John Wayne in True Grit ? ’ |
| 11 | But outside a religious context , why should I ask for a certainty with which I dispense in every other field of life ? |
| 12 | ‘ Should you go to a doctor ? ’ |
| 13 | But how should you react to a new book published by a boy who 's just TEN years old ? |
| 14 | Should you arrive at a delicatessen counter when a salame is just being started or finished , you may be lucky enough to collect the end chunk which can be used to give extra flavour to spaghetti sauces or risotto-type dishes . |
| 15 | Should you feel like a glass of — er — sherry in the course of the evening , by all means come and pour yourself one ! ’ |
| 16 | Please remember that , should you suffer from a chronic or acute complaint , these methods are best used in conjunction with whatever form of treatment you are receiving — whether from orthodox medicine or a qualified complementary practitioner . |
| 17 | Which colours should you use in a north-facing room that seems cold all the year round ? |
| 18 | Nor should you begin with a reference to spontaneous symmetry breaking . |
| 19 | But how much should you spend on a deck ? |
| 20 | ‘ If you were happy together , why should she mind about a few snubs from social snobs who barred you from their visiting-lists for such a reason ? |
| 21 | And what more , what more should we expect from a Party that is led nationally by a man who , in 1983 , says , there are no circumstances in which I would order or permit the firing of a nuclear weapon , which leads somebody to say , Kinnock 's lust for power is so great that he 's prepared to ditch any principle to get it . |
| 22 | What price should we tender for a contract ? |
| 23 | Should we go to an all-time record of 16 pages , shelve several articles or edit them all so much they would hardly be recognisable ? |
| 24 | Why should we play with a weakened team they say ? |
| 25 | I was determined that I would not communicate this nervousness to my sons , and so I did my best not to react should we come across a dog in the street . |
| 26 | Which equation should we use in a practical case , the equation for the vector potential , Ampère 's law , Biot-Savart 's law , or attack directly Maxwell 's equations ? |
| 27 | Also , voting for this season 's 1st team seems interesting , but should we wait for a couple of weeks before all signings are done . |
| 28 | When students ask " how do you start an essay ? " they usually mean what should they write for a first sentence . |
| 29 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 30 | Some countries have systems of self-regulation and others rely on legislation ; but , in addition to this , there is the problem of definition of ‘ market share ’ — should it refer to a particular count ? ’ or to the EC as a whole ? |