Example sentences of "[vb mod] i [vb infin] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I give it to her ? |
| 2 | May I give it to her please ? |
| 3 | Then may I collect you at half-past eight tomorrow morning ? ’ |
| 4 | May I place it on record that I know that my hon. Friend is doing his best to ensure that south Dorset continues to have a large amount of Ministry of Defence employment ? |
| 5 | ‘ May I visit you at home , Mr Pink ? ’ smirked the Trade Attaché . |
| 6 | May I visit you in the evenings , or will you come for a walk with me on Sundays ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | May I refer you to my letter of 30 March regarding the above tape , for which you placed an order on 16 March . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | May I leave it in your hands , Utterson ? ’ |
| 13 | May I associate myself with the praise that has been heaped on the know-how fund ? |
| 14 | May I associate myself with the Prime Minister 's remarks about Queen Elizabeth II ? |
| 15 | May I associate myself with my right hon. and learned Friend 's comments about the injuries of people on the train ? |
| 16 | Before you consider the document , may I remind you of a letter that you received from the convenor of Stirling district council ? |
| 17 | Although regretting the need for such prosecutions , may I congratulate him on the vigour with which he prosecutes those who peddle such odious doctrines ? |
| 18 | May I congratulate you on your most informative articles in the September and October issues on Life with the Washington . |
| 19 | May I illustrate it with a true instance of what one industrialist did , who took this challenge seriously . |
| 20 | May I encourage him by telling him that the Chief Constable 's view is that four out of every five planned terrorist incidents in Northern Ireland are thwarted before they take place ? |
| 21 | May I ask you about a serious point of order , Mr. Speaker ? |
| 22 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 23 | ‘ May I ask you in future , Miss Kenton , to address my father as ‘ Mr Stevens ’ ? |
| 24 | May I read them to you ? ’ |
| 25 | May I help you by suggesting that if you could persuade the Prime Minister to fix the election date now there would be no need for this pre-election period — if the Prime Minister would stop shilly-shallying because he is afraid of going to the country . |
| 26 | Erm for those who we shall not see tomorrow , may I thank you for your presence , your contributions , that 's Mr Cunnane , Mr Laycock and Mr Girt . |
| 27 | On behalf of the may I thank you for your you your commitment , your concern and a wonderful party held on Christmas day at the Wilsden Hall . |
| 28 | May I thank you on behalf of Carol , Lindsay Hardy , occupational therapist and Dr Peter Morrell , consultant paediatrician and all concerned for enabling this event to take place . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | 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 ? |