Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can shew me the exact spot and that will save time . |
| 2 | I said I said well now someone can buy him the other one for christmas . |
| 3 | If the Commonwealth War Commission do n't know how to get hold of the War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission can give us the information we want provided we can give them the christian name of the person and the regiment . |
| 4 | If you are faced with a filthy horse on an equally filthy day , you can give him the equine equivalent of a bed bath . |
| 5 | We can give you the following . |
| 6 | After she was found dead and there were so-many questions and Mena told so much , she said to Constanza — oh , I can give you the very words , I shall never forget them — Mena said , ‘ One day many many years ago , when the old principessa was still alive , she opened a door and saw them , the prince and the Marchesa Giulia , in the long room at Castelfonte . ’ |
| 7 | W eight thousand eight hundred I can give you the precise figure |
| 8 | ‘ I can give you the exact quote . |
| 9 | Only such anthropology can give us the all-round vision of primitive man and primitive culture . ’ |
| 10 | On the one hand , coins can give us the only information we have about some buildings , such as the vanished Roman Temple of Augustus and Livia between the Palatine and Capitol which was restored by Antoninus Pius in AD158-9 . |
| 11 | ‘ You can send me the odd card if you like . |
| 12 | Or we can do it the other way round , it does n't matter . |
| 13 | The hardened jumper-fiddler can do it the hard way , of course , but the software approach is by far the easiest — so you can plug it in and forget it , you wo n't need to whip it out and fiddle with it . |
| 14 | I can show you the broken elastic in my tracksuit if you like . |
| 15 | In the light of this passage we can interpret one of Wordsworth 's gnomic sayings — ‘ The Child is Father of the Man ’ — and can understand what the attractive childhood episodes are doing in Books i and ii ; they are now seen to be similar ‘ spots of time … enshrined … for future restoration ’ . |
| 16 | The General and I , on the other hand , being men of intellect and learning , can understand everything the old bugger is saying . |
| 17 | It 's got a very thick safety glass door on it so you can see what the little dears are doing but ca n't hear them . ’ |
| 18 | He can see what the bitter outcome can be , but instead of washing his hands of the affair , he doggedly and morbidly follows the Carbone 's situation to its tragic resolution . |
| 19 | I think it 's debatable how selfish people really are , particularly when they see that their are short-term selfishness may in fact create long-term problems for themselves , for their children , for their grandchildren , for er other generations and other peoples , and really as I can see it the green message is one of enlightened self-interest . |
| 20 | " Then if you wo n't take him willingly you can take him the other way . |
| 21 | You 've got all you 've got really you 've got the hypotenuse but you do n't need to bother with you just can call it the long one . |
| 22 | If you want to get personal then two can play at that , and I swear on my lifelong friendships with the late Mrs Gandhi , Brian Clough and Michael Parkinson that I will burn my brand new membership card of the NUJ on the square at Headingley if you can name me the full Yorkshire team you 're chairman of . |
| 23 | okay , there 's all sorts of them , I mean you can have it the wrong nought , |
| 24 | If you can tell him the whole town pays for itself , that 's far more impressive than — ’ |
| 25 | You can tell them the true way things stand . ’ |
| 26 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 27 | No mechanical indicator can tell you the right time to strike , at least in this situation , but your sense of touch can , once you have enough experience to know what you are feeling for . |
| 28 | ‘ I can tell you the precise date , if you like . |
| 29 | I suggest you have someone take a look at it who can tell you the exact problem and not speculate as to probable causes and costs . |
| 30 | ‘ So , ’ I finished for him , ‘ we can ignore everything the little bastard in Newgate told us ! ’ |