Example sentences of "[adv] you can [verb] me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you can tell me that ! ’ |
| 2 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 3 | ‘ Surely you can spare me ten minutes — say a quarter of an hour ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll make a pot of tea then you can tell me all about it . ’ |
| 5 | Then you can tell me some more about that book you 've been buried in for the past week . " |
| 6 | Right , just like reading that through , I 'll give you the Readers Digest version , and then you can ask me any questions to fill in , there 's er , quite a bit to tell . |