Example sentences of "[modal v] i [verb] you [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then may I collect you at half-past eight tomorrow morning ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ May I visit you at home , Mr Pink ? ’ smirked the Trade Attaché . |
| 3 | May I visit you in the evenings , or will you come for a walk with me on Sundays ? |
| 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 | Before you consider the document , may I remind you of a letter that you received from the convenor of Stirling district council ? |
| 9 | May I congratulate you on your most informative articles in the September and October issues on Life with the Washington . |
| 10 | May I ask you about a serious point of order , Mr. Speaker ? |
| 11 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 12 | ‘ May I ask you in future , Miss Kenton , to address my father as ‘ Mr Stevens ’ ? |
| 13 | May I help you by suggesting that if you could persuade the Prime Minister to fix the election date now there would be no need for this pre-election period — if the Prime Minister would stop shilly-shallying because he is afraid of going to the country . |
| 14 | Erm for those who we shall not see tomorrow , may I thank you for your presence , your contributions , that 's Mr Cunnane , Mr Laycock and Mr Girt . |
| 15 | On behalf of the may I thank you for your you your commitment , your concern and a wonderful party held on Christmas day at the Wilsden Hall . |
| 16 | May I thank you on behalf of Carol , Lindsay Hardy , occupational therapist and Dr Peter Morrell , consultant paediatrician and all concerned for enabling this event to take place . |
| 17 | WHAT OUR READERS SAY : ‘ May I compliment you on your very practical commonsense magazine which is informative , colourful , and down to earth . ’ |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Should I collect you at about eleven , then ? |
| 20 | ‘ What should I tell you of myself ? ’ |
| 21 | Her hair was put up with rhinestone forget-me-nots instead of diamanté ones and when her friend Mr Lewis says : ‘ might I divest you of your plastic mac ? ’ the whole process shut down for an hour or so whilst six fairly literate people racked their brains for a ‘ mac ’ substitute . |
| 22 | Might I remind you of the work of Dr. Bowlby , who pointed out the effects of mother deprivation on children ? |
| 23 | Might I congratulate you on the birth of Henry , or Harry as I notice he is to be called from the announcement in the papers . |
| 24 | Might I ask you through the Chair ? |
| 25 | But might I trouble you for a cup of hot water ? ’ |
| 26 | Ok then , oh what 'll I owe you for me bacon . |
| 27 | And could I leave you with a poem ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | He went and bought a pack of cigarettes from the machine behind him , searched his pockets , then asked : ‘ Could I trouble you for a light , Miss ? ’ |