Example sentences of "[vb mod] i [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I urge him to press for a return to traditional standards of teaching in our primary schools as soon as possible ? |
| 2 | In furtherance of that , may I urge him to bend his considerable energies towards the development of solar and tidal power ? |
| 3 | May I inform him , as he has not answered my question , that the same careers service says that nothing has changed and that the same number of young people will not get YTS places , that many of them are fed up with turning up , only to be told that nothing is available and that the continued recession and closures mean that hundreds of them will have nothing to do ? |
| 4 | I welcome both the inquiries that the right hon. Gentleman has so speedily set up , but may I advise him that , if we do not get it right this time , we shall be at the Dispatch Box again to consider still more cases ? |
| 5 | Before the hon. Gentleman gets stuck into the CAP , on which matter I hope that he will be as robust as my right hon. Friend in defending the interests of the British farmer , may I advise him that I was interested to note that he began his speech by talking about animal diseases and BSE ? |
| 6 | " May I stroke him please , Lan ? " |
| 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 remind him that inflation has come down from 10.9 to 3.7 per cent. , that interest rates have been cut by 4.5 percentage points and that we have the lowest level of inflation for 25 years — below that of west Germany . |
| 9 | Before the Minister starts to make criticisms of the cost to the taxpayer of buying back the grid company , may I remind him what happened when his right hon. Friend sold it ? |
| 10 | May I remind him that the London Arts Board , which has just taken over from Greater London Arts , is settling down well to the work of funding arts associations throughout London . |
| 11 | May I implore him now , on behalf of my hon. Friend the Member for Neath ( Mr. Hain ) , to save the 4th Volunteer Battalion ? |
| 12 | ‘ May I congratulate him now ? |
| 13 | Although regretting the need for such prosecutions , may I congratulate him on the vigour with which he prosecutes those who peddle such odious doctrines ? |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | May I see him ? |
| 16 | If , as the Minister says , we recouped so much money on the Gulf war , may I ask him to explain why the Ministry of Defence is being so mean and tight-fisted towards some of those who were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice during that war ? |
| 17 | While welcoming my right hon. Friend 's reply , may I ask him to accept that the best training for Royal Navy reservists is with the regular Navy and will he give that priority in the coming operations for the Royal Naval Reserve ? |
| 18 | In thanking my right hon. Friend for that answer , may I ask him to have regard to the stresses and strains that already exist in a predominantly Christian European Community and to consider whether they would be increased if we admitted to the Community nations with a predominantly Islamic culture ? |
| 19 | While declaring an interest and reluctantly accepting what my right hon. Friend says about flying squadrons , may I ask him to confirm that there is a good future for the Royal Auxiliary Air Force in view of its exceptional record and its cost effectiveness as a reserve force ? |
| 20 | Following a meeting this morning at the Department of Energy , may I ask him to arrange for the Secretary of State to make a statement answering the anger in Coventry , not just about the way in which the pit was closed and the loss of jobs , but the belief that the closure took place to mothball 40 million tonnes of medium sulphur content coal so that , were the Conservatives to be re-elected and the pits privatised , Daw Mill could take that coal out in a UDM pit ? |
| 21 | I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on his courageous stand against the 11 who opposed him , but may I ask him a simple question ? |
| 22 | ‘ Mother , may I slug the umpire , may I slug him right away ’ was a parody of crowd behaviour at baseball games published by the Washington Critic in 1886 . |
| 23 | ‘ May I have him home to the abbey ? |
| 24 | If the Minister genuinely believes in the equitable distribution of the social fund , may I invite him to review cold weather payments , because the senior citizens in my area of east Cleveland have lost out during the past week ? |
| 25 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 26 | May I beg him to stop making political capital out of the health of the citizens of the capital and concentrate on the real issues ? |
| 27 | Ought I to know him ? '' ’ |
| 28 | One might almost think , says Robert — our Robert , must I call him ? — that she has been directing affairs herself ! |
| 29 | Should I give him a knee where it hurt ? |
| 30 | And why should I prevent him ? ’ |