Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 May I make two points in reply to the hon. Gentleman ?
2 ‘ We will leave soon , Master Lieutenant , but may I ask one favour first ? ’
3 Please may I have 20 lashes ?
4 And if she has already enjoyed the satisfaction of having climbed to a new standard of proficiency , higher than she has been before , why should she care one way or another to know that others have not yet reached this standard ?
5 If all men are human beings , why should we need two categories instead of one ?
6 How long should it take 18 men to build a similar wall ?
7 Only that 'll one happen one time in in four , on there .
8 A new daughter-in-law is greeted by her mother-in-law with the blessing ‘ May you have seven sons ’ or urged formally to ‘ bathe in milk and you 'll have lots of sons ’ .
9 Could I explain one alteration on Q P16 Simon given our recent changes .
10 I asked no way could I take two years out again and that was it .
11 Could I have two pounds please ?
12 Could I raise two items of any other business ?
13 Could you differentiate three X ?
14 Could you love two people … two men like that ?
15 But could you do two copies between the four er three of you .
16 Could you walk two miles in thirty minutes or run a mile in ten or twelve minutes ?
17 Yeah their their funding tends to be they 'll they 'll fund something like a production or they 'll say at you know if you put our name up were give you so much or General Portfolio perhaps will will fund a particular show or a series of show 's or say were prepared to put a thousand pounds could you name six shows and we 'll put our name on those show 's when they 're advertised but no company or other Council 's actually prepared to come along and say were prepared to put money on a regular basis .
18 about it we could you know five minutes .
19 So erm er erm by n by no means er could you call one point one percent of something that can vary by factors of three in , in , in , in Cornwall the natural radiation is three times what it is in , in Essex erm er but they seem to be quite er healthy nevertheless in Cornwall erm so point one percent is er varies by factors of three , obviously ca n't be considered to be erm er a major political er a major erm er environmental hazard .
20 Could we have 3414 calling 3485 , and just hold the conversation , and 3472 calling 3476 , and just hold the conversation .
21 May we have two glasses of water please ?
22 May we have two lagers please ?
23 This , madam — ye Gods ! would I had 10,000 yards of it ! …
24 ‘ Where would ye get seventy pounds ? ’ he asked suspiciously .
25 Would you prefer one QT Day in London and the other two held in the Home Counties ?
26 Where would you get fifteen shillings a week and board and lodgings ? ’
27 Why would you need three years to make a record ?
28 So how would you , how would you find three quarters of twenty ?
29 Shall we have two breakfast appointments , yes .
30 Shall we say fifteen minutes ? ’
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