Example sentences of "can you [vb infin] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Guitarist Can you clear up the mystery of the early Fender custom colours , Salmon Pink and Fiesta Red ? |
| 2 | Next time you cook it can you leave out the leeks ? |
| 3 | Next time you cook it can you leave out the leeks ? |
| 4 | Just as you can not add up all the prices in a shop to arrive at what it would cost to buy the shop , nor can you add up the price of all a company 's shares to arrive at what the company is worth . |
| 5 | 15 A rectangle has a length of 10cm and a perimeter of 30cm Can you work out the width of the rectangle ? |
| 6 | Can you find out the name of the real spy ? |
| 7 | Not only can you find out the results of addition quickly after all the figures have been written down , you can also predict the results of adding together three rows of figures after only one has been written down . |
| 8 | When the average intelligent person sees the wreckage of a crashed aircraft greatly disintegrated and spread over the accident site , the question he would put to the investigator is almost invariably the same : ‘ How on earth can you find out the cause of that mess ? ’ |
| 9 | Can you turn over the page again now , I want you to direct your attention to paragraph four point six of this report , which reads The boundary proposed for the conservation area is limited to that part of the settlement which retains its village character . |
| 10 | I think the real nitty gritty of this question is , given a T tumour can you pick out the good from the bad using this technique ? |