Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here , let me shield you from the wind . ’ |
| 2 | Stair thrust an arm around him , laid his head on Neil 's shoulder , and said , ‘ Let me treat you to a good ‘ un at Rachel 's , Neil , ’ which completed the destruction of any desire Neil might have had to treat himself . |
| 3 | Let let me introduce you to a nurse , a nurse called Nicola . |
| 4 | Let me introduce you to the world of press releases . |
| 5 | Let me introduce you to the class . |
| 6 | Though they are what is commonly called our enemies , yet , if they make proper use of what I have laboured for , let them enjoy it with the blessing of God . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Although regretting the need for such prosecutions , may I congratulate him on the vigour with which he prosecutes those who peddle such odious doctrines ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But might I trouble you for a cup of hot water ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Could I trouble you for a receipt ? ’ |
| 13 | I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins . |
| 14 | Have you finished with that , shall I give it to the birds ? |
| 15 | Shall I give it to the birds ? |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Now do I do it over the music across the north I do it over the music Okay right here we go . |
| 20 | Shall I do it with a toothbrush and a ? |
| 21 | Will I do it on the other side ? |
| 22 | Should I do it on the back of that ? |
| 23 | But how can I look him in the face and tell him that 's turned out to be true ? ’ |
| 24 | Can I interest you in an aerial photograph of your house ? ’ |
| 25 | " Can we get this one right on top there , or should I stick it round the back ? |
| 26 | I flash upon my own family ; the way I have to think a moment before deciding who to include in my family , whether to include the step-parents or the siblings on my father 's side whom I would not know should I see them on the street , the hastiness of Mom and Larry on Sunday swirls between galleries and sushi , untapered by excess or sentimentality , busy with books and foreign films and the Sunday supplement of the New York Times , the wisdom of Ivy Leagues and schedules too dense to live by , to wake by , to sleep and breathe by . |
| 27 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 28 | ‘ Can I see you for a minute ? ’ |
| 29 | What time shall I see you in the morning ? ’ |
| 30 | Why did I see it in a story ? |