Example sentences of "[modal v] i [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I give it to her ? |
| 2 | May I give it to her please ? |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | May I refer you to my letter of 30 March regarding the above tape , for which you placed an order on 16 March . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | before before the meeting proper may I refer you to first of all the voice amplification system is currently working but er there are some difficulties with it and it may during the day deteriorate to a state that it is more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 8 | May I ask you to … ‘ ) which give the option of refusal ; we apologize for imposing ( ‘ I 'm sorry to bother you ’ ) , and add in praise to make our hearer feel good ( ‘ You know much more about car engines than I do ’ ) . |
| 9 | May I read them to you ? ’ |
| 10 | May I put it to him that the danger of his proposal of making workplace ballots illegal , which is what he is proposing , even where there is independent scrutiny , is that the participation level is lower for such ballots ? |
| 11 | Since he had the gall to suggest that employers ' organisations all support the proposals , may I put it to him that this and many other parts of his provisions were vehemently opposed by employers ' organisations , including the CBI , the British Association of Chambers of Commerce and the Institute of Personnel Management ? |
| 12 | Very well , may I put it to you that this special resolution be adopted . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Why should I give anything to Perks ? |
| 15 | And why should I give it to you ? ’ |
| 16 | Is removal straight forward , or should I leave it to the professionals ? |
| 17 | ‘ Why should I send her to you ? ’ |
| 18 | why should I take it to Cath 's ? |
| 19 | Why should I put myself to a lot of trouble and difficulty when — perhaps — you could just give the terrorists what they ask and save all the bother ? ’ |
| 20 | Should I say anything to him about the way I feel , or are my friends right and should I try to forget about him ? |
| 21 | Before we go back , my lord , might I put something to you , and to Ser Rizzo ? ’ |
| 22 | The sole remaining question was could I adapt myself to my environment ? |
| 23 | Could I read it to you ? |
| 24 | Erm , could I ask you to just share with us briefly , er , not in great detail , but , just a few words about what it is that you want to influence somebody about . |
| 25 | Yes , well could I ask you to er tell us a little bit Lord the jury and and in December of nineteen eighty eight what was your rank and job ? |
| 26 | If I had anything to admit , why would I admit it to you ? |
| 27 | Shall I pass it to you ? |
| 28 | Shall I sing it to you ? ’ |
| 29 | I know how many lorries you can count , shall I sing it to you ? |
| 30 | To report on my own experience , I have found a surprising number of English people outside the academic world who have lived with the Sonnets , have taken them into their own experience , can quote with ease ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ , or ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? ’ , or ‘ When , in disgrace with Fortune and men 's eyes ’ , or ‘ Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediment ’ . |