Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than take up other points , may I ask people to read what you and I have written and said in our different roles and words . |
| 2 | ‘ May I have permission to visit the garret where Brampton died ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Why should I want Ryan to see me ? ’ she asked faintly . |
| 4 | Why should I require animals to join me in some mutual admiration society or even make them honorary members ? |
| 5 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 6 | Should I ask Hitler to postpone the war because of your dreadful vanity ? |
| 7 | When should you tell Mountain Rescue that you think there might be somebody in danger ? |
| 8 | And how should you regard relatives bearing gifts ? |
| 9 | Well what do the others think , I mean yeah it 's a sort of when should you let trainees answer your questions ? |
| 10 | Should you have difficulty getting the ball into the air with irons , select a club which has the weight more towards the sole of the clubhead . |
| 11 | Should she permit Finn to speak insultingly of the duck then she would have rendered herself vulnerable ; for all traitors are peculiarly at risk — both from within and without . |
| 12 | In the past month , not a day has gone by without national newspapers devoting reams of print to the issue , asking in big headlines , as Le Point put it , ‘ Should we let Islam colonise our schools ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Why should we spend money to get a book in a window that should be there anyway ? ’ |
| 14 | So what Joe wanted the meeting to decide is should we ask Mark to send off a cheque for those three people ? |
| 15 | In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread says the Old Testament ; salvation through hard work go the Protestant ethic and the rigidities of the New Right ; labour power , how nature is tamed and society transformed , argues Marxism . |
| 16 | Many countries have an offence of ‘ abuse of authority ’ to differentiate these crimes , in accord with the principle of fair labelling ( Chapter 3.3 ( 1 ) ) , but anxieties about the problem of listing the types of authority ( should it include persons undertaking voluntary responsibility , such as choirmasters and youth-club leaders ? ) have led to the continuation of the pragmatic all-encompassing provisions in England and Wales . |
| 17 | Where in a hotel might you use CCTV to help you manage ( which is what efficient communication is all about ) ? |
| 18 | Could I get Mahoney to drop the black ? |
| 19 | Please could you let Jenny know if you are able to attend so she can make the booking . |
| 20 | When he came along how could you see things had changed or how could you see in the process of changing ? |
| 21 | And could you use hydrogen to run cars , for example ? |
| 22 | ‘ Could you ask Francisco to find the woman who looked after the shop for me last time I was ill ? ’ |
| 23 | Not having the culinary skills to extract nourishment from this household item she passed on to her second request ; could she have money to buy uniforms for her kids to go to their new school ? |
| 24 | It helps if you play for Swindon Town , or just happen to be a Formula One motor racing champion , but could we persuade Peter to add a Television Presenter to his collection ? |
| 25 | Could we have people to pay the six pound a night and erm you know a hundred and forty four to start with and just ask people to pay the six pound a night anyway and just get as much back as we can ? |
| 26 | How could they get women to sign on for such a life ? ’ |
| 27 | Could he expect Nebamun to do it for him ? |
| 28 | Could he ask Franca to make sandwiches for them ? |
| 29 | It was Ceauşescu who reassured Sadat with positive answers to his key questions : Could he trust Menachem Begin and could Begin deliver on any promises he might make to Egypt ? |
| 30 | How could it enable pupils to contest their lives ? |