Example sentences of "[modal v] i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Waiter , may I have some bread , please ? |
| 2 | Most kids have a pretty long list : ‘ Please may I have a Barbie doll with her van and a oops a daisy doll hands down games bensing babys teddy bears leggo my dolley suprise hungry hippoes . ’ |
| 3 | Please may I have compassionate leave , sir ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Then may I have an undertaking that if I can manage to put on a show , a stupendous show — I promise you it will be — may I then retire from the post ? |
| 5 | May I have my coat ? ’ |
| 6 | Further to my letter of 19 May I have now heard from colleagues at the University of Waterloo in Canada , who have been instrumental in preparing the tape and are the owners of the copyright of PAT , the accessing software . |
| 7 | May I hope that you too enjoyed our talk — and may I have the pleasure of calling on you . |
| 8 | I remember my mother dozing off on one occasion , over the miles of Salisbury Plain , and saying in a sleepy voice to Ann who had perched on her knee , ‘ Ann dear , may I have my leg back ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , Sir , ’ I said to one man , ‘ may I have your name , address and next of kin , please . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ May I have a list of the dead ? ’ he asked . |
| 11 | For example : ‘ May I have an appointment with Mr Block at 4 p.m. on Monday next for a short back and sides ? ’ is preferable to : ‘ I want an appointment please , ’ which leads to a string of questions , ‘ Which day ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Before we go , may I have a dekko inside the shelter . |
| 13 | But the Oscar for the Most Unusual Drawing Show of the Month goes — may I have the envelope please ? — to Pace , uptown , for ‘ Directors ’ Drawings ’ , starring works on paper ( and on story-boards ) by the likes of Alfred Hitchcock , Martin Scorsese , Satajit Ray , Federico Fellini , Sergei Eisenstein , John Houston , Orson Welles , David Lynch and Terry Gilliam ( among others ) . |
| 14 | May I have your name , please ? |
| 15 | Please may I have 20 lashes ? |
| 16 | May I have your Majesty 's order to take out the soldiers and destroy them ? " |
| 17 | May I have some food . |
| 18 | ‘ May I have some time ? ’ ‘ |
| 19 | May I have a cigarette ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ May I have a cigarette please ? ’ |
| 21 | May I have full authority to support our AMG by force of arms if necessary . |
| 22 | ‘ May I have another slice of that delicious gingerbread ? ’ |
| 23 | May I have a glass of water until you 've decided about the kippers ? |
| 24 | If so , may I have the pleasure of proposing you ? |
| 25 | ‘ May I have the doctor 's name , Madame ? ’ |
| 26 | May I have the pleasure , monsieur , of introducing my two sons , boomed the senator , smiling into the wizened face of the Annamese mandarin while the governor 's aide translated for him . |
| 27 | ‘ May I have him home to the abbey ? |
| 28 | May I have a conducted tour sometime ? ’ |
| 29 | May I have my clothes back now ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ May I have a look ? ’ |