Example sentences of "[modal v] i [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says Dawn , of Blundellsands : ‘ I love my dad because when my mum goes out he let's me put mousse on his hair and rollers . |
| 2 | Says Dawn , of Blundellsands : ‘ I love my dad because when my mum goes out he let's me put mousse on his hair and rollers . |
| 3 | May I draw attention to our recently established London branch , which meets regularly to discuss current issues and share ideas and experiences . |
| 4 | MAY I draw attention to two areas of concern — the silent , unobtrusive increasing of the school leaving age for some young people and the penny pinching savings through the same process with the changing of the school leaving date . |
| 5 | May I make love to you , Charity ? ’ |
| 6 | May I pay tribute to Mr Corrie for his letter ( Echoes March 3 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Then may I bid farewell to Mrs Longhill ? ’ |
| 8 | May I ask Andrea to er proposed the motion , please . |
| 9 | May I take issue with one relatively minor but important point ? |
| 10 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 11 | They ask : Why should I give credence to a life that has imposed barriers on me ? |
| 12 | Why should I take pupils on Work Experience ? |
| 13 | ‘ Should I put water in it ? ’ she asked , smiling a little . |
| 14 | Why should I have teachers on secondment ? |
| 15 | In response to some implied criticism I made of his treatment of the sub-editor , Porua regarded me in a sneering silence and then said , ‘ Why should I have regard for my fellows ? |
| 16 | Why should I let society off the hook by accepting rubbish when it 's more than within their means to treat me with dignity ? ’ |
| 17 | A very large number of obstructions and particularly season er seasonally obstructions and the visitors or should I say invisibility of many of the files in the network . |
| 18 | How could I tell Fatima with her large , trusting brown eyes that her war had become stale news and I had to move on ? |
| 19 | As soon as I could I got Méli on his own . |
| 20 | How could I make proposals on social security without mentioning National Insurance for which I had ministerial responsibility ? |
| 21 | Could I urge exploration of the Zemlinsky pupil Johanna Müller-Hermann , whose String Quartet ( once published by Universal Edition ) looks intriguing ? |
| 22 | Could I ask readers to be aware of the need for on-going social education amongst our young people by encouraging discussion not simply about ‘ schooling ’ ( though this is important too ) . |
| 23 | Could I have access to your central computer for a while ? ’ |
| 24 | Well could I have comments on the principle or principles of er by using criteria and then I 'd like to go through the individual criteria or individual criterion one by one . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , what if I decided to put one of the lots back into the next auction , could I postpone payment on that until after it was sold ? ’ |
| 26 | Need I remind council about such things as charge capping the fact that the government wishes to remove non-elected members or a majority of them , from police committees . |
| 27 | Need I remind council of the fact that the funding for grant maintained schools will be entirely in the hands of fifteen people that are nominated by the government and nobody else . |
| 28 | ‘ Would I put money on you ? ’ |
| 29 | Shall I kiss you , Lissa , shall I pay homage to those ripe , exotic fruits you 've kept hidden from me for so long ? |
| 30 | Psalm 13 put her own question well —' How long shall I take counsel in my soul , having sorrow in my heart daily ? ’ |