Example sentences of "[pron] please [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I please tell you what happened in class just now ? ’ |
| 2 | Could I please quote from the Bargaining Report Document dated twenty seventh of April nineteen ninety three which says , and I quote , works councils , elected bodies representing the whole workforce are becoming an increasing interest to the U K trade unionists and this par this in part because of the growing awareness of industrial relation structures in the rest of the E C. |
| 3 | And would I please stop publishing on psychoanalysis and leave it to my elders and betters . |
| 4 | Could I please draw attention er you already chairman have , but it 's important from where I stand to draw attention to the words of the second criterion of the P P G. Which says that the proposal is a clear expression of local preference supported by the local planning authorities . |
| 5 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 6 | Could I please change two hundred dollars ? |
| 7 | Can I please urge you to visit the exhibition hall during the course of congress . |
| 8 | Well will I please make them an apple pie |
| 9 | Before we leave this Mr , can I please ask you if you accept what Mr has said in paragraph three of his statement B three double O two , the statement on behalf of the Parish Council ? |
| 10 | May I please ask you to give a little time to thinking how best you personally can assist the Society to raise enough funds before the end of this year to complete our Development Plan for 1988 ? |
| 11 | Er , there is a a little orange leaflet which has been placed on the seats during the day that many of you , I hope , already have er , for anyone who has n't may I perhaps place these on the front table , there 's a the , there 's another supply over there and , could I please ask that some responsible representative from each district would please take a few more of these away with you so that they are distributed in district meetings in the near future , and attention drawn to them there er , if there are not enough copies er , then I 'm sure the provincial office on receiving a , a request from you will make sure there 's more that passed on to you . |
| 12 | May I please correct one or two small inaccuracies in Rumer Godden 's interesting article on Lamb House ( The National Trust Magazine , autumn 1990 ) ? |
| 13 | So — can I please appeal to those of you ( teachers and class members ) who are having difficulty in deciding just what fund raising ideas to put into operation — 1985 is now upon us — and — Time Flies ’ . |
| 14 | Girls , can I please persuade you not to touch the dish , whatever else if you need slide it then use , you see that |
| 15 | So could I please see the Master and arrange it as quickly as possible ? ’ |
| 16 | Would I please see Deputy Head before dinner . |
| 17 | And can I please recommend you speak to your finance and admin people and they will say , now do n't expect to be saying , oh that 'll be no problem , because we na , we ai n't got a F and A like that , they 're always to caution , you know . |
| 18 | May I please support the Sheriff 's stand on this matter as the speed limit legislation seems to be based on remarkably little logic ? |
| 19 | If Sheila 's letter is to be printed , may I please add a footnote . |
| 20 | But if he can manage it , may I please take him over to the island to look at the birds there ? |
| 21 | May I please use your pages to thank everybody who made a donation to my collection towards insulated sleeping mats for London 's homeless ? |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , and could I please have the hot-water ration today , Mama ? |
| 23 | May I please have a drink ? |
| 24 | Will someone please decide once and for all what we can eat and drink ! |
| 25 | Never mind , Zak said , would someone please tell her that she must telephone Steve from Sudbury , as he had serious news for her . |
| 26 | While we 're on the subject of Shareware will someone please tell those loonies who insist on putting their 50 page manuals on disk in Write format with lots of pretty graphic diagrams which take forever to print and kill my ribbons , to desist pronto . |
| 27 | Can someone please tell me what are the benefits expected from the current practice of having the relations of murder victims parade their pain on television ? |
| 28 | Can someone please tell me the names of some American poets ! |
| 29 | Ok , using that as an example , labrador , can someone please tell me what I mean by file , field and record ? |
| 30 | Would someone please send for him ? |