Example sentences of "then [modal v] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then may I suggest you sell your unstoppable watch back to the North Koreans , m'sieu ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Then may I carry on , please ? |
| 3 | Then may I collect you at half-past eight tomorrow morning ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Then may I have an undertaking that if I can manage to put on a show , a stupendous show — I promise you it will be — may I then retire from the post ? |
| 5 | He said , ‘ Then may I come in and wait till Miss Louisa comes home ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Then may I bid farewell to Mrs Longhill ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They speak ill of our parents ’ marriage — how then should I answer them ? ’ |
| 8 | Why then should I subsidise the choices of others ? |
| 9 | But in the course of developing our case we have found no grounds upon which I could have validly chosen my present ends except that they are the ones to which I spontaneously tended when most aware ; on what grounds then could I persist in preferring these ends to a further advance in awareness which would undermine them ? |
| 10 | and we do have , some of this slides which , I 'll show at the very end , alright , but it means it er , erm , the first part of the talk we 'll keep the lights on and then could I ask you , you know to look and then pass it around like school |
| 11 | ‘ Then shall I do this ? |
| 12 | I would try and get people to work as a team together and then when it obviously is n't going to work properly , only then would I make the decision . |
| 13 | Then would I have his Harry , and he mine . |
| 14 | ‘ And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me , but walk contrary unto me , ’ he read out , ‘ then will I walk contrary unto you also in fury ; and I , even I , will chastise you seven times for your sins . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to stay in London , because only then will I get the chance to do some research into polio , like I did during that long vac . ’ |
| 16 | And if you grant it and have her return then will I help her be free , even before myself . |
| 17 | ‘ Then can I land ? ’ |
| 18 | the case then can I suggest that we define within our quality systems , that project engineers will be M S twos or above , for check categories of zero or above , and that for jobs with a category of double zero |
| 19 | Now then can I sit down now . |
| 20 | When I fly out from the nest over the moors to its great and awesome cliff and gyre on the winds out over the sea then can I call myself a Wrath eagle . ’ |
| 21 | I mean , that case then can I take my my committal to Preston Crown Court , and when I go to Birmingham |
| 22 | I hope to see most of you personally over the next few weeks but if I do n't then can I say ‘ Thanks ’ and ‘ All the Best for a healthy and prosperous future . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And then can I come back to Robinsgrove ? ’ |
| 24 | Then can I ring Mum and Dad from your place — invite them round , maybe ? |
| 25 | In his poem ‘ Sportsmen ’ he asks : ‘ How then can I live among this gentle/obsolescent breed of heroes , and not weep ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Then can I teach biology ? ’ |
| 27 | Right , now then can I pose a question to you , Mrs , well it 's a collective question really for all the districts . |