Example sentences of "please [modal v] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You , you were n't auto sort of automatically allowed out till ten you had to go to the office and say , please may I stay out till ten . |
| 2 | Please may I get down from the table ? |
| 3 | Please may I get down from the table ? |
| 4 | Please may I get down from the table ? |
| 5 | Please may I get down ? |
| 6 | Please could you fill in the form and let them know whether you will be attending . |
| 7 | Before we get it fingerprinted , which I suspect will be a waste of time , and tested for blood , which wo n't be , please would you nip down and winkle out Norman Pinder from wherever he 's parked himself ? |
| 8 | A man I recently stopped in the centre of Manchester to ask if he believed in extraterrestrials replied ‘ What ? ’ then ‘ No , I do n't think so , ’ and then ‘ Please would you come back to my flat to mend my faulty radio ? ’ |
| 9 | Please will you turn back to our epistle , from chapter 3 of Ephesians . |
| 10 | They can settle down more easily in those circumstances but the questionnaire is saying , please will you fill in the answer the following questions and let us have it back . |
| 11 | ‘ Please can we go back ? ’ |
| 12 | Please can we play down here ? |
| 13 | Please can we get on with the serious stuff please . |
| 14 | Scraping the last of the Reading mud off our boots , Public NME says Hoorah ! for the end of the festival season — now please can we get back to normal service with nice comfy bars to lig in and no acres of mud to wade through . |
| 15 | ‘ Please can you send up a bottle of Jim Beam , two glasses , a plate of steak sandwiches … ’ |
| 16 | They will have experienced distance ( ‘ It was a long way to the seaside ’ ) ; time ( ‘ Please can I stay up longer ? ) ; quantity ( ‘ Can I have some more sweets ? ) ; capacity ( ‘ My glass is empty ’ ) and comparison ( ‘ I 'm taller than John ’ ) . |