Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] can [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regret I can shed little new light on the mystery of who blew the whistle on the celebrated dressing-room scene after Woodfull was hit . |
| 2 | Do n't forget the same with , with take-aways as well , if the signs are the same you get a plus or you get an add , erm so that 's , I mean I can see this is the bit you 're not too happy with , but we 'll just see if it works . |
| 3 | Come to that I mean I can put some of this in the car and dump , just take it over to the tip |
| 4 | Well I mean I can get that up the end . |
| 5 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 6 | I , I mean I can understand all this but I 'm , I 'm just asking |
| 7 | I mean I can understand that |
| 8 | Erm , I think at the back of some people 's minds there was this pressure , you know that 's why a few did return to work and I mean I can understand some of them returning to work but not necessarily for the reasons they 've stated . |
| 9 | You can catch up on the I mean you can do those graphs without reading anything else about it . |
| 10 | Okay , so you can convert any per centage into a normal frac I mean you can leave this sort of fraction is no problem , like I say , erm , seventy eight per cent is a , seventy eight over a hundred , and normally you would n't have to bother cancelling them down because you 'd just go to use your calculator |
| 11 | I mean you can interpret any play you want to Twelfth Night for example is having a political subtext if you look far enough beneath the surface of the play . |
| 12 | I mean you can see that bloke stopping cos he saw this poor girl lying in the road . |
| 13 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 14 | Right so something like that and so this represent I mean you can figure this line as being sort of the real wage over the time you mention increasing throughout . |
| 15 | Yeah , so that 's a twenty four , I mean you can have another twenty four next . |
| 16 | When I say let's try , I mean you can try some . |
| 17 | I expect it can hear this . |
| 18 | ‘ Mr Boulez has been associated with the project from the very first days so I say he can consider this house his home . |
| 19 | ‘ So I imagine we can eliminate that possibility . |
| 20 | I hope they can throw some light on a very delicate matter ? |
| 21 | I hope we can do this again . |
| 22 | I hope we can do this again . |
| 23 | Washburn Abbott , who will lead the US 's delegation to the Geneva conference , told New Scientist : ‘ I hope we can settle this issue amicably without too many political problems . ’ |
| 24 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
| 25 | Erm paragraph twenty one , we 'd certainly oppose any move to give local authorities the right to cease homes of travellers erm especially in view of the shortage of the good pitches I that is just totally and I do n't think that that 's on , I hope we can oppose that . |
| 26 | I hope we can see this time . |
| 27 | I hope we can support this one . |
| 28 | ‘ I hope I can defuse any potential incident with a laugh and a smile . |
| 29 | I hope you can explain this mystery to me . |
| 30 | was standing near the washing machine , , Simon gave him a filthy look , I said look I apologize for I 'd completely forgot that you were coming to collect he said I know I can see that , he had n't really what with the kids all running around and , so quickly got them and er , I thought he got , did you bring your cheque round ? |