Example sentences of "can [verb] [pron] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure you can spare me a few moments of your time . ’ |
| 2 | When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’ |
| 3 | You can make yourself a few bob there I should think . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry to intrude on you at this hour , but if you can give me a few minutes of your time you may be able to help me , and I 'll be very much obliged . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Sure , and you can give me a few tips on the leisure market . ’ |
| 6 | But whereas those satirists recreated a context with omniscience in such a way as to justify their final attack , the poet here can give us no such context . |