Example sentences of "[vb mod] i [vb infin] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I visit you in the evenings , or will you come for a walk with me on Sundays ? |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | May I associate myself with the praise that has been heaped on the know-how fund ? |
| 4 | May I associate myself with the Prime Minister 's remarks about Queen Elizabeth II ? |
| 5 | Although regretting the need for such prosecutions , may I congratulate him on the vigour with which he prosecutes those who peddle such odious doctrines ? |
| 6 | Should I lay them on the doorstep and vamoose before she responded to the bell ? |
| 7 | Should I do it on the back of that ? |
| 8 | Is removal straight forward , or should I leave it to the professionals ? |
| 9 | I flash upon my own family ; the way I have to think a moment before deciding who to include in my family , whether to include the step-parents or the siblings on my father 's side whom I would not know should I see them on the street , the hastiness of Mom and Larry on Sunday swirls between galleries and sushi , untapered by excess or sentimentality , busy with books and foreign films and the Sunday supplement of the New York Times , the wisdom of Ivy Leagues and schedules too dense to live by , to wake by , to sleep and breathe by . |
| 10 | " Can we get this one right on top there , or should I stick it round the back ? |
| 11 | Might I remind you of the work of Dr. Bowlby , who pointed out the effects of mother deprivation on children ? |
| 12 | Might I congratulate you on the birth of Henry , or Harry as I notice he is to be called from the announcement in the papers . |
| 13 | Might I ask you through the Chair ? |
| 14 | Could I put them in the soft box ? |
| 15 | But I have to ask myself this — would I hate myself in the morning ? ’ |
| 16 | Would I take him in the lorry ? yes I can do that for you . |
| 17 | ‘ Shall I leave you in the care of the good professor ? ’ |
| 18 | Allowing her to change the subject , he offered , ‘ Shall I meet you in the foyer after breakfast , say nine-thirty ? |
| 19 | Shall I accompany you on the violin ? |
| 20 | Shall I tell you about the very first little baby ? |
| 21 | Have you finished with that , shall I give it to the birds ? |
| 22 | Shall I give it to the birds ? |
| 23 | What time shall I see you in the morning ? ’ |
| 24 | Shall I take you to the nurse ? ’ he asks me . |
| 25 | Shall I whack it under the grill now ? |
| 26 | ‘ Shall I get him on the line , sir ? ’ |
| 27 | Well , shall I put them in the fridge ? |
| 28 | Well shall I put it in the rubbish ? |
| 29 | Will I do it on the other side ? |
| 30 | There are many accounts of the death of Richard , this is from Darts History of Canterbury Cathedral 1726 : " The manner of his death is thus reported by Birchington and Gervaise , and confirmed by Geraldus , " That being at his seat at Wrotham he had a vision of a very terrible person , who asked him , in fierce manner who he was , to whom when he , for fear made no answer , thou art he , continued he , who destroy the church , and therefore will I destroy thee from the face of the earth " at which words he vanished . |