Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pron] [vb infin] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I give it to her ? |
| 2 | May I give it to her please ? |
| 3 | May I refer him to the reports on economic purchasing issued in December 1992 and February this year by my counterpart in Great Britain , Professor Littlechild , for an indication of the complexities involved in this type of exercise ? |
| 4 | May I refer you to my letter of 30 March regarding the above tape , for which you placed an order on 16 March . |
| 5 | And for the benefit of those readers who are persuaded by his arguments ( and those who are not , too ) , may I refer you to a letter from Simon Kyte appealing for financial and professional help for the Humanitarian Appeal for Victims of the Yugoslav Civil War . |
| 6 | ‘ May I refer you to an unimpeachable authority : Mr John Camden Hotten , author of a biography of Dickens , and also , he paused impressively , a life of Thackeray , refers to it in 1870 as Bleak House . |
| 7 | before before the meeting proper may I refer you to first of all the voice amplification system is currently working but er there are some difficulties with it and it may during the day deteriorate to a state that it is more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 8 | May I ask you to … ‘ ) which give the option of refusal ; we apologize for imposing ( ‘ I 'm sorry to bother you ’ ) , and add in praise to make our hearer feel good ( ‘ You know much more about car engines than I do ’ ) . |
| 9 | May I read them to you ? ’ |
| 10 | May I put it to him that the danger of his proposal of making workplace ballots illegal , which is what he is proposing , even where there is independent scrutiny , is that the participation level is lower for such ballots ? |
| 11 | Since he had the gall to suggest that employers ' organisations all support the proposals , may I put it to him that this and many other parts of his provisions were vehemently opposed by employers ' organisations , including the CBI , the British Association of Chambers of Commerce and the Institute of Personnel Management ? |
| 12 | Very well , may I put it to you that this special resolution be adopted . |
| 13 | Tomorrow morning may I invite you to a complimentary breakfast of tinned yam , tinned pineapple , tinned paw-paw , Belgian coffee , German rolls , Swiss sugar and English butter processed and packed in Kenya ? |
| 14 | And why should I give it to you ? ’ |
| 15 | Is removal straight forward , or should I leave it to the professionals ? |
| 16 | ‘ Why should I send her to you ? ’ |
| 17 | why should I take it to Cath 's ? |
| 18 | Why on earth should you link him to this ? ’ |
| 19 | But even should she explain it to her as his ruse to get his own way with her , there was still the possibility that the ruse might not have come off ; in anyone older than him and less strong , it could possibly have achieved its object . |
| 20 | ‘ Why else should she invite you to her room ? |
| 21 | Should we expect them to be ‘ selfish ’ or ‘ ruthless ’ , if they have no alleles ? |
| 22 | Where should we send it to ? ’ |
| 23 | Should we move him to another school ? |
| 24 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 25 | Or should it permit them to be in — that word again — dispute ? ) |
| 26 | Only in the case of money , over which men may retain control even when the domestic division of labour is less rigid , might one expect them to be more actively involved in exchanges of support with kin . |
| 27 | On learning that the child carried his genes , might he take her to court and attempt to gain custody ? |
| 28 | Could I read it to you ? |
| 29 | Erm , could I ask you to just share with us briefly , er , not in great detail , but , just a few words about what it is that you want to influence somebody about . |
| 30 | Yes , well could I ask you to er tell us a little bit Lord the jury and and in December of nineteen eighty eight what was your rank and job ? |