Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
| 2 | Unlike the Labour party and the Militant Tendency we tend not to have card-carrying women , but I can tell the hon. Lady , although I was not asked this question , that precisely 50 per cent . |
| 3 | But I can tell the Hon. Gentleman that sufficient time will be given to take all such considerations properly into account . |
| 4 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman about the review , which was commissioned in 1989 . |
| 5 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman that his local authority of Dumbarton will benefit . |
| 6 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman with the full authority of my office and my responsibility for the programme that if one cuts £6 billion from the defence budget no defence job in the country will be safe . |
| 7 | At present , other matters are proceeding , but I can tell the hon. Gentleman — I am grateful to him for seeking clarification — that in respect of a further order for type 23s , I expect that to be at a broadly similar interval comparing this with the previous order that was placed . |
| 8 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman that the offshore safety division is a separate , discrete , independent division of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 9 | However , I can tell the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan what I am seeking to achieve . |
| 10 | I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that that will continue . |
| 11 | I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that , to use the time-honoured phrase , we have no present plans to undertake such an exercise . |
| 12 | I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that the terms and conditions of junior doctors will continue to be negotiated nationally . |
| 13 | I can confirm the hon. Gentleman 's remarks about the protocol . |
| 14 | But I can create the right conditions for confidence . |
| 15 | Well , these days I can reach the highest shelves of the house library , and walk into Porteneil to visit the one there , so I can check up on anything my father says , and he has to tell me the truth . |
| 16 | ‘ On a four-stroke I can slide the front good . |
| 17 | I can scour the local rags ! |
| 18 | You can draw Y squared equals X , and all you have to do is say well , I can draw the other way round . |
| 19 | I am only trying to mind my own business and I do n't know whether I can prevent the compulsory purchase order . ’ |
| 20 | I went into the water industry at seventeen years , and I 've still not figured out how to do these new ones and make them go backwards I can do the other ones . |
| 21 | yeah , I do n't think I can do the big mower . |
| 22 | ‘ I can do the last bit , ’ she said hastily , exerting a steely self-control . |
| 23 | So er if you 're thinking of becoming a super model if there is anybody out there who 's thinking of becoming a super model perhaps you 'll give me a ring and er and I can break the bad news to you personally . |
| 24 | I think that I can satisfy the hon. Gentleman . |
| 25 | I will do what I can to publicize the true position . |
| 26 | I can assure the hon. Member that there is no question of selling out any section of British industry because it is greatly to the advantage of British industry and the British economy that there should be a satisfactory outcome to the present Uruguay round . |
| 27 | I can assure the hon. Member for Ogmore that once the legislative procedure is clarified , the Government will be more than anxious to end the anomalies and the present situation in which people are unclear and therefore feel free to take the law into their own hands . |
| 28 | However , I can assure the hon. Gentleman that there was a substantial increase in funding for each training and enterprise council this year on the year before . |
| 29 | I do not have the figure to hand , although I can assure the hon. Gentleman that it is a great many more than in 1979 . |
| 30 | I can assure the hon. Gentleman that his concerns are well reflected in all the discussions between operators and Ministers . |