Example sentences of "you [verb] [pers pn] can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we pointed the ending out to them , some said " You mean you can sometimes tell what a chapter is about by looking at the end " and others said " 0 Lord , how many times have I been told ! " |
| 2 | How do you think we can possibly afford this sort of thing ? " |
| 3 | ‘ How dare you think you can just barge into my property ! |
| 4 | You go over the bridge and then you turn and then if you 're coming here , you go turn right again into umm d' you know I can never remember the name of the road , another road anyway you turn right . |
| 5 | ‘ If you can hit your killer 's face before you croak we can probably get him , ’ SOCO said helpfully , as he examined a gory piece of Sellotape before slipping it into one of his brown paper bags and carefully labelling it . |
| 6 | In order that I can make my recommendations realistic , how much do you feel you can comfortably invest on a monthly basis to protect your wife and family and make provision for your retirement ? |
| 7 | Oh well I 'll keep the insurance company er I w er we will send them a little note in that case , saying look , you know , this is the case , it appears to be an innocent lesion she 's just been finely checked over on the eighth of October , do you feel you can now proceed ? |
| 8 | ‘ However , if you imagine you can now buy them back I would advise you to forget all about it . |
| 9 | But , but if , if they discover that you know they can really get you erm er to er do all their worrying for them , |
| 10 | You know you can easily spend three hundred pounds er doing that . |
| 11 | You know you can just flash it ? |
| 12 | It 's a joke you know an awl is a sort of erm instrument thing you know you can just give that . |
| 13 | You know you can just say D five one four . |
| 14 | We all assumed that because of the , yeah the media pressure , at least talks would start , but I think possibly the management thought that because of this one-sided pressure , you know it seemed at the time that nothing nice was being said about the management , you know you can almost understand them being reluctant to go into a room and offering their side of the argument . |
| 15 | Er but you know you can always close things if you want to . |
| 16 | Moved , Cecilia said , ‘ You know you can always come back to me to live , Tina . |
| 17 | There 's one kept saying , ‘ If there 's anything wrong , dear , you know you can always come to me to talk about it . ’ |
| 18 | I was just that some nights I waken up and you know you can actually hear your heart . |
| 19 | Er now these , you know you can actually write that in , go on , if you want . |
| 20 | you know I can always go back there as well . |
| 21 | If you ever try to do a ha a demonstration for anybody erm or a group of people involving a sort of manual skill , you find that it goes to pieces if it 's not a very well rehearsed skill , whereas you find you can actually get very your performance is a lot better when you 've got an audience if you know the skill very well . |
| 22 | Get the right size , clip them on as tight as possible , stand up and you feel you can hardly walk , let along balance and control a pair of skis . |
| 23 | I bet you laughed I can just imagine your face . |
| 24 | mm , you never listen to people and then you think you can just pick it up by deduction |
| 25 | But they advise sparing use of such melodramatic tactics ‘ unless you think you can consistently use your reputation as a high-strung hysteric to your advantage ’ . |
| 26 | There again you see they can still muster out the air tanks , keep it afloat . |
| 27 | If your building society wo n't allow you to register you can still apply for a refund of overpaid tax financial year . |
| 28 | There is no choice about the way through ; if you enter you can only earn the right to emerge by submitting yourself to a series of confrontations with the work . |