Example sentences of "can [verb] [pers pn] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Croner can make you this promise , which is backed by our considerable expertise gained over 50 years as Britain 's leading loose-leaf publisher . |
| 2 | And allowing someone to call you by your first name ( 'Please , call me John' ) has the sub-text : ‘ I am higher-status than you are and so can grant you this permission . ’ |
| 3 | Mark James , Jim Payne , David Gilford and Paul Broadhurst think they can beat him this week as does Gordon Brand jun who was joint second with Ireland 's David Faherty in Valencia . |
| 4 | And if they can do it this afternoon or tomorrow morning , |
| 5 | And if they can do it this afternoon or tomorrow morning , |
| 6 | They can do it this way . |
| 7 | can do it this way . |
| 8 | Yeah , yeah , ok , Kim can do it this month . |
| 9 | Yeah , we can do it this month . |
| 10 | You can do it this time . |
| 11 | ‘ You can see her this evening , since you 've already made the journey . |
| 12 | In fact , the Gallery has extended the show 's run to eight months so that school children can see it this autumn and has moved the scheduled second venue , Detroit , to the end of the tour . |
| 13 | ‘ I can assure you this woman is what she appears — an intelligent scientist untrammeled by the usual preoccupations of women . ’ |
| 14 | Yo go on you can tell me this joke and then you can finish . |
| 15 | I can tell you this place is a bloody paradise compared with Fresnes . |
| 16 | We 've got the see if you can get us this number , and nine times out of ten he comes back and says here it is , and on the tenth occasion he 'll come back and say , Too risky . |
| 17 | Oh if I can get you this time ! |
| 18 | Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds . |
| 19 | The reason I can offer you this choice is because , on its way to you now , is an invitation to enter our ‘ DOUBLE YOUR MONEY ’ prize draw . |