Example sentences of "you can [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can guess who the typist is . |
| 2 | You can tell me the day and the month ? |
| 3 | it 'll only be shorter , it wo n't keep you warm down the bottom , yeah and here on the neck it 's , alright you can tell me the colour of , but it , it is quite |
| 4 | ‘ Then you can tell me the truth about Ibn and Butler . ’ |
| 5 | but you can tell what the bar man was thinking |
| 6 | because you can tell them the price the size what |
| 7 | However , if you feel the buyer 's going to present a business problem we show them the buyer 's guide and a business card so you can give them the buyer 's guide , explain what it 's for and then give them your business card and then that buyer 's guide to look for business card . |
| 8 | However , I am doing as the Daily Mirror suggested , and am contacting you in the hope that you can give me the answer . |
| 9 | It 's not just the better the members that we 've got working in the Health Service , it 's about everybody in the room and everybody in the country who wants to use it and we 've got ta get it a bi a bit higher up on the agenda at this union and I hope Mick , that you can give us the confidence and give us the commitment , that that 's what we 're gon na get from this union . |
| 10 | It will help us with our enquiries if you can give us the envelope or the outer wrapping . |
| 11 | The Holy Spirit out of all that we 've been speaking about and listening to you can give us the end of the sentence . |
| 12 | yes , then there 's the , yes , what that says , at the top , so you can announce what the aim of the campaign is . |
| 13 | ‘ I mean , if you can show me the way I will take you by car , ’ I said . |
| 14 | And you can show me the cross . |
| 15 | ‘ Come on , Howard , you can show us the way . ’ |
| 16 | But if the document does n't exist , it does n't exist unless you can remember what the information was on that document but I would imagine . |
| 17 | if you can remember what the rule . |
| 18 | You can prove this for yourself , in fact , by re-reading any good whodunit where you can remember who the murder eventually proved to be . |
| 19 | ‘ You can see what the problem is ’ , G. says . |
| 20 | This was a solicitors pick it up and my Lord so you can , you can see what the dispute was . |
| 21 | I says that 's got ta be Warren , it could n't be anybody else , so when I come down I went off like , well I tell ya I ca n't do it , so I knew it was so I picked up the wrong she says oh I 'm just ringing because you can see what the weather is she says and you could n't go and do a day in erm , with your |
| 22 | Quite clearly the objective and you can reading between the lines of the propaganda which pours out er of the Chinese Communist Party for the late thirties onwards , reading between the lines you can see it the objective is essentially Chinese state power , achieving power and using power to build er a national er unified , modern state . |
| 23 | I 'm going to it going to do it that way but you can see it the earth is round . |
| 24 | Erm , now I will give you as much help as I can with that , but not the actual subject of it , erm , you can determine what the objective is yourselves . |
| 25 | ask it questions , it 's obviously on the telephone because you can ask what the balance is and it will tell you , and it ca n't possibly know that and Cleethorpes , when you put the card in the Cleethorpes thing , that , you know , your bank balance at Nottingham is so it 's obviously on the telephone erm and it 's on the telephone to a central computer which holds quite a lot of information , it accesses |
| 26 | There are of course exceptions to the rule : you can ask someone the time , or for directions ; you can expect to attract comment if your behaviour is somehow deviant , for example you are hopping down the street dressed in a clown suit . |
| 27 | Well that 's two million pounds interestingly erm there are costs er er er we had some of our U S interest rates and we er that actually was an outgoing erm there , there are lots of other pluses and minuses and we , you can kid yourself the rate being eight point nine accrued and five and a half adjusted er if you want to think you know if you th think the treasury job was a good one , but erm the truth lies somewhere in between I suspect . |
| 28 | As those were the best lines , you can imagine what the rest were like . |
| 29 | And it used to roar , you can imagine what the noise was like in the chapel . |
| 30 | I mean , if you can imagine what the process of a dame in pantomime goes through to get all that gear on then that is the sort of thing you 've got to try and do in mime . |