Example sentences of "[verb] can [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knock the bloke up and say Can you come and move your car ? |
| 2 | Look can I go and get my pen . |
| 3 | We went to this restaurant one night up in the mountain , he was starting to tell you , we walked in and there was all these people about eighteen and twenty sitting in the middle of the room and we went in , and it was late , it must of been eleven and we said you know can we eat and he said yes , yes and after he said , he said |
| 4 | If I ca n't join can I go and watch them tracking ? |
| 5 | And it became difficult , so in the end , rather than committing myself when people phoned up saying can you come and do a job for me , rather than do it badly and not being there and being unreliable I 'd say : ‘ No . |
| 6 | when he went in mum started crying she said Lyn he ai n't coming back he ai n't coming back I said he might mum , he 's just might so anyway that was , at one o'clock he went down , quarter past five , ring , we kept saying can you ring and see if , and they rung said be out the operating theatre to tell us how far they 'd got and what was happening , he 's had four units of blood |
| 7 | Look Ralph erm if , if you do n't mind me saying can you remember if you do this could you just give me a ring and say it 's done , if not Sid come down in the morning . |
| 8 | Can I go can I go and play with tennis trainer ? |
| 9 | So she rushed out and then the came in and said can you go and have a chat to her . |
| 10 | And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no . |
| 11 | I told him there was some , I said somebody was interested in , well he 's got back in touch and he said can you come and do a twenty minute spot at this hotel in Bedford and he said really , I mean he 's doing it |
| 12 | But then they got their own van and they did most of them , er but then again they they a called on us and said Can you come and do a little job for us ? |