Example sentences of "[vb mod] i [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I quote in its entirety the sentence from which you extracted your sub-title : ‘ In order , on the one hand , to make use of the catalogue easier , and on the other , to keep certain material confidential to protect the artist 's name , image and market every work is accompanied by a caption which gives only the principal facts from the archival entries ’ This seems to me to be quite clear and explanatory of common practice in the writing of captions . |
| 2 | May I ask in whose honour you were playing those pipes ? ’ |
| 3 | May I ask in what capacity ? ’ |
| 4 | " May I ask in what way , Ma'am ? " |
| 5 | May I join in the admiration and respect which all concerned , including J. 's mother , have expressed for what the foster parents have done for J. |
| 6 | May I associate my right hon. and hon. Friends with the tribute paid by the Prime Minister to Her Majesty the Queen , and may I join in the other congratulations already expressed ? |
| 7 | May I join in the expressions of sympathy to the bereaved and those who were injured in Saturday 's incident ? |
| 8 | May I join in the Secretary of State 's praise for the emergency services , which acted magnificently , and also in his best wishes to those who were injured ? |
| 9 | May I join in congratulating my right hon. Friend on negotiating an agreement that meets all our aspirations and protects our national interest ? |
| 10 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |
| 11 | I know she 's disappointed as you are but may I coming in her place thank Nicholas Hinton and his colleagues for having me at the Barbican at this important annual public meeting . |
| 12 | ‘ May I come in here : I 'm on this scheme for tonight . ’ |
| 13 | How may I come in touch with you ? ’ |
| 14 | He did not ask : how much can I earn in a day if I do as much work as possible ? but how much must I work in order to earn the wage which I earned before and which takes care of my traditional needs ? … |
| 15 | WHY SHOULD I INVEST IN A PEP NOW ? |
| 16 | And what should I do in another woman 's household , who have been used to managing my own ? |
| 17 | But August ‘ 92 , the sun shining in London and who should I find in your pages ? |
| 18 | What should I put in it to keep it going between broods ? |
| 19 | The answer to " how much detail should I include in my notes ? " will depend upon the density of information in any given paragraph/section and your personal needs as a note-maker . |
| 20 | " But nobody knows where he is , what 'll I do in the meantime ? " |
| 21 | But in the course of developing our case we have found no grounds upon which I could have validly chosen my present ends except that they are the ones to which I spontaneously tended when most aware ; on what grounds then could I persist in preferring these ends to a further advance in awareness which would undermine them ? |
| 22 | Oh , Mummy , could I go in the fancy-dress parade as Red Riding Hood , with Bully behind me as the wolf ? ’ |
| 23 | But how could I achieve in a few minutes what I had failed to accomplish after hours of trying ? |
| 24 | Could I come in here Chris ? |
| 25 | But but hold on , could I jump in there because |
| 26 | What else could I keep in my tank ? |
| 27 | How 'd I get in here ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Nor would I stand in my kinswoman 's way , my lord , ’ said Hussey eagerly . |
| 29 | What would I do in Brighton ? |
| 30 | Direct proportionality , if I 'm driving at a steady sixty miles an hour , how far would I go in erm one hour ? |