Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | May I associate myself with the praise that has been heaped on the know-how fund ? |
| 6 | May I associate myself with the Prime Minister 's remarks about Queen Elizabeth II ? |
| 7 | Before you consider the document , may I remind you of a letter that you received from the convenor of Stirling district council ? |
| 8 | Although regretting the need for such prosecutions , may I congratulate him on the vigour with which he prosecutes those who peddle such odious doctrines ? |
| 9 | May I illustrate it with a true instance of what one industrialist did , who took this challenge seriously . |
| 10 | May I ask you about a serious point of order , Mr. Speaker ? |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Should someone attack you with a tennis racket and you calmly blast them with a shotgun , then you legally become unreasonable . |
| 13 | Should I lay them on the doorstep and vamoose before she responded to the bell ? |
| 14 | Should I do it on the back of that ? |
| 15 | Is removal straight forward , or should I leave it to the professionals ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Should I book 'em on a charge of indecent behaviour in a public place … or should I jes ’ book 'em into a motel an' let 'em git on with it ? ’ |
| 18 | Why should I put myself to a lot of trouble and difficulty when — perhaps — you could just give the terrorists what they ask and save all the bother ? ’ |
| 19 | " Can we get this one right on top there , or should I stick it round the back ? |
| 20 | Never must she put herself in a position where she might be tempted to betray the fact that she loved him . |
| 21 | Should you use one to the exclusion of the others ? |
| 22 | Should one see him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites ? |
| 23 | Should we regard you as an American artist ? |
| 24 | Why should we have it in the back ? |
| 25 | Whores did this , after all , a dozen times a day and would not recognize the man should they meet him in the street an hour later . |
| 26 | That 's quite ludicrous , why should they shoot themselves in the foot and is Mr seriously suggesting the same thing ? |
| 27 | He kept two in the house , one equipped with a bell so that he could ring should he want anything in the grave ! |
| 28 | A friend of mine , should he find himself in a gay sex shop . |
| 29 | For why should anyone involve themselves with a stranger when the one thing that everybody had in plenty was trouble ? |
| 30 | Might I remind you of the work of Dr. Bowlby , who pointed out the effects of mother deprivation on children ? |