Example sentences of "[verb] can [pers pn] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , cos I want can you pass me the ashtray and the fags . |
| 2 | Well I think , I 've got ta say that I think it might be ha it might be working better now with there but when not there and we go to and say can you tell me where X Y Z is , the response you 're gon na get is I 'm sorry I do n't know and the reason she wo n't know is that she 's never bothered to ask because she 's not talking so it 's okay while there but it wo n't be when she 's not because I 've had that , sorry I do n't know . |
| 3 | and the cars stop , he 'll even go over to one of the cars and if they 've got their window open and just er say can you give me , have you got ten P for me ? |
| 4 | The other people that have been there a long time know it all and what they , what you say can you help me . |
| 5 | Half past eleven at night they went and knocked Wendy 's door and says can you give me some photos of your daughter and there were two girls and they thought that they were the only two and the woman said that the only two girls I know that are alike them , their age group , erm , er are Nicholas daughter and erm , and erm her friend |
| 6 | says can you tell me how much it will be for you to fit it ? |
| 7 | Er financial institution is sure to meet its position , it comes to the pension fund says can you loan me th this stock in the return of which I will er pay you the equivalent sum of money plus some interest . |
| 8 | Erm Can you show can you tell me any ways in which you I presume you know about Mother Theresa you know quite a bit about her life do you ? |
| 9 | ello , yeah I just er wondering can I court I booked for Wednesday night please ? |
| 10 | I could always phone up my mum and get can you pick me up from the Galleria and take me back to Haileybury please . |
| 11 | I find this difficult to believe , but as she is a religious and patently honest lady I wonder can you tell me could it be really true ? |
| 12 | And I said can you tell me if erm this cheque is gone through to er Peter . |
| 13 | Peking he said can you tell me why his room was larger than mine |
| 14 | and I said can you tell me how dad 's |
| 15 | For example if you went into a bicycle shop and said can you sell me a bike suitable for a seven year old child ? |
| 16 | But if you did and said can you sell me some erm emulsion paint , which is non-drip , and they sell you some matt paint , which drips , then clearly they 've sold you something which was not fit for the purpose that you had specified . |
| 17 | ‘ So he came to you and said can you put me up and you did ? ’ asked an unfeeling Coffin . |
| 18 | The boldly stylised and appealing Can You Find Me ? by Donald Smith ( Tango Books £7.99 ) is a hide-and-seek game book with a difference . |
| 19 | Miss can you help me set up a microscope please ? |
| 20 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 21 | Is it because it , I mean can you give me a reason ? |