Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] can [vb infin] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | I c I do n't I do n't think I can tell you the lot it 's |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't really think I can tell you — it 's so private , you see . |
| 3 | Erm I s do n't think I can give you a precise answer to that question er off the cuff Mr Colgan , I think we 'd have to let you have a note on those figures |
| 4 | ‘ Now , Schatzie , how do you think I can help you ? ’ |
| 5 | So I do n't think I can help you too much on the second one . |
| 6 | And if you 're to try and fill her shoes , which I very much doubt you 'll ever do , but if you 're to be even half the woman that she was , may God have mercy on her , then you 'll need all the reminding I can give you . ’ |
| 7 | I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused . |
| 8 | yeah , well I mean I can cook you a , a meal on it , but if you ca n't , you ca n't can ya ? |
| 9 | I , I mean I can tell you the names of the of all , everybody in them days , round the fleck area like , you know . |
| 10 | I mean I can tell you that there 's water in the pipe if you 're thirsty , but you need to go to the pipe with a glass and turn the tap on in order to er not to be thirsty any more , in order to receive the water . |
| 11 | I mean I can tell you . |
| 12 | I mean I can help you a certain , a certain amount , |
| 13 | How do I know I can trust you if I do n't know what religion you are ? |
| 14 | ‘ How do I know I can trust you ? |
| 15 | Right then , yes , I expect I can fit you — sure , July 17th will be just perfect — I 'll just cancel my holiday and postpone the opening … no , I 'll just write it in , no , no thank you . |
| 16 | How come I can hear you ? |
| 17 | How do we know we can trust you ? |
| 18 | Oh he says I can get you one , I said I want to hear it first |
| 19 | I , I says , I 'll let you know sometime today or tomorrow and er anyway , he was expecting me to say at least two or three or four weeks you know er because I 'd put the situation I had no tools , no nothing and erm I er had a look at it and I thought what I could do , and I says I can let you have them in a week . |
| 20 | Now , men , I hope I can trust you all to do your work well for me . |
| 21 | I hope I can see you again . ’ |
| 22 | I also give a guarantee that it is n't just a one off situation , meeting we all go away and forget about what we 've said I can assure you that wo n't happen minutes have been taken and and what 's been said this evening that will be conveyed to the management committee meeting the board meeting and I think we need to look very clearly at a very closely what 's been said and respond to what 's been said and I think that it 's been suggested also raised this evening about having a further meeting to report back and say erm this has been said this is our response . |
| 23 | Hope we can give you an opportunity . |
| 24 | I hope we can help you … |
| 25 | Now what have they have they said they can hear you breathing more quickly or more deeply or rattly or |
| 26 | She said , ‘ I only hope they can leave you alone for one night . ’ |
| 27 | Your headmaster says he can get you a place . |
| 28 | Even from er the quality of the brochure I mean you can see you know I mean that 's quite high level |
| 29 | She obviously thi thinks she can tell you the story , you know , and she says er I put on conditioner on my hair , and Sarah |
| 30 | ‘ As far as the clothing is concerned , it 's all in the reports , but to save you time I can tell you more or less what we found and it is n't a great deal . |