I beg leave to acquaint your Excellency, that Mr Searle, a member of Congress, arrived at Paris on the evening of the 10th instant, and immediately sent me the despatches of Congress committed to his care.
Through you, Sir, I beg leave to communicate my most respectful acknowledgments to Congress for this distinguished instance of their confidence in me.
From all these your Excellency will be fully instructed in the several matters, on which I wish to have the benefit of your advice; but to bring some of them more immediately under your view, I beg leave to state the following questions.
With respect to the snake of the sea I beg leave to say that I believe in the existence of such a creature; and am surprised that any people in these parts should not believe in it: why, the sea-serpent has been seen in these parts.
The minority of the Committee on Expiration and Re-enactment of Laws, beg leave to report: The theory of our government, proclaimed some eighty years since, these petitioners ask may be reduced to practice.
But, in the first place, I beg leave of your majesty to deliver the imperial letter into your hands.
And now I should like to beg leave to present a small gift to the king," said the peasant.
In the first place, I beg leave to be seated, for I have been ill, and am still weak.
I beg leave, gracious countess, to take upon myself the functions of our outrider.
Schiaden, who had just entered, "I beg leave to be allowed to pass the night in the travelling-coach.
As a small mark of my grateful esteem, I beg leave to present you with a copy of the work, as far as it is printed; the Man of Feeling, that first of men, has promised to transmit it by the first opportunity.
Had the wing of my fancy been equal to the ardour of my heart, the enclosed had been much more worthy your perusal: as it is, I beg leave to lay it at your ladyship's feet.
I beg leave to send it to you because it is new, and may be useful.
I beg leave to repeat the expression of my profound reverence to His Majesty and of my deep sense of the honor which he has done me.
I beg leave again to thank you for your attention, and to assure you that the form in which it is conveyed makes it doubly acceptable.
In explanation of this enquiry, I beg leave to state that this is an honour to which, personally, I could not think of aspiring.
I beg leave to acquaint the Court that I have a house established in New York, under the firm of Pigou & Booth, and I humbly solicit the favor of that house having a share of the consignments.
In soliciting this favor, I beg leave to avail myself further of the circumstance of our having for a long time been concerned in the tea trade, and to greater extent than any house in our Province, with one exception.
Philadelphia being also a port to which the Company will most likely send teas, I beg leave to recommend Messrs.
Having had occasion, Mr. President, to speak of nullification and the nullifiers, I beg leave to say that I have not done so for any purpose of reproach.
In order, however, that everything may be laid before it in my power pertinent to such specific issues as are legally raised, I beg leave to introduce Major Asa Bird Gardner as my counsel.
I beg leave to recommend the following promotions be made for gallant and distinguished services in the last eight days' battles, to wit: Brigadier-General H.
Indeed, on our way up I personally was almost frozen, and had to beg leave to sleep in the house of a family at Athens.
So I beg leave openly to state the following points: FIRST that I take it to be duty of honour and principle not to meddle with any party-question of your own domestic affairs.
There are, however, other considerations to which I beg leave to turn the attention of the House.
I beg leave to cite an authority on such points, which, I think, will not be disputed.
Sir, I beg leave to move the resolution of which I have given notice.
I beg leave, my Lords, to ask, what want is there of any additional circulation, when the circulation is at present greater than it ever was?
Considering the bridge as a monument, I beg leave to suggest that its immediate destruction is inconsistent with the promise made to the commissioners on behalf of the part of the army, during the negociation of the convention, viz.
My Lord," said he, "if you have no great objection, I beg leave also to accompany you both.
I beg leave to observe to the company, who are going to dispose so generously of another man's property, that my father purchased the castle and estate of the house of Lovel; who is to repay him the money for it?
Now that I am on this subject I beg leave to relate another instance or two which strongly raised my belief of the particular interposition of Heaven, and which might not otherwise have found a place here, from their insignificance.
I beg leave further to represent to your Lordship, that the like attempts, when encouraged by other governments, have met with uncommon success; and at this very time I know a very respectable character a black priest at Cape Coast Castle.
While I was in this ship an incident happened, which, though trifling, I beg leave to relate, as I could not help taking particular notice of it, and considering it then as a judgment of God.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beg leave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
