Example sentences of "can [pers pn] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I watch this ? |
| 2 | ‘ OK love , can I leave this with you ? ’ |
| 3 | Jan can I leave this with you ? |
| 4 | If not , can I make this happen with some form of manual override switch ? |
| 5 | Can I make this ? |
| 6 | Can I wear this then ? |
| 7 | Can I borrow this ? |
| 8 | He er was n't the lender , he was the borrower , he went to the bank , says can I borrow this collection of treasury bonds , which he has to put pension fund assets to stock , so he 's immediately er going against his duty as a trustee cos it 's costing the pension fund money this er er excess of five to ten per cent . |
| 9 | Can I borrow this , this cup now to fish these fish out . |
| 10 | Oh sorry have I okeydoke , Mary Ann can I borrow this when you 've finished ? |
| 11 | can I borrow this ? |
| 12 | Can I borrow this ? |
| 13 | Then there 's the lending it out problem , where presumably people say ‘ can I borrow this stuff ’ and they just sort of walk off with it and you do n't know whether you 've got it all back , and you find a few weeks later there 's a lead missing . |
| 14 | Can I borrow this . |
| 15 | Erm can I , can I move this conversation on to the |
| 16 | Can I move this off ? |
| 17 | Can I bring this one ? |
| 18 | Can I bring this one and Tim bring the next one ? |
| 19 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |
| 20 | And all the time she 's here it 's ‘ What can I do ? ’ and ‘ Can I do this ? ’ |
| 21 | Or , let's be clear-sighted about this , how can I do this to myself ? |
| 22 | But how can I do this |
| 23 | So you can , what what I 'm thinking of now is not so much , I 've been thinking of stuff that you have done , and that if you sort of spend a little bit of , not much time , maybe ten minutes on each topic , just having a little look at it and finding a problem , this is the sort of problem I was doing a month or two ago , can I do this one ? |
| 24 | No but it I mean it 's just been so long , it I I said to him , can I do this trial and he said , and i explained everything about it and he said , yes try it . |
| 25 | Oh look , how can I do this hair . |
| 26 | Can I do this to you ? |
| 27 | I keep , apart from the fact that we 've got an enormous number of deadlines , but David keeps saying , ’ we must stop ’ , and then people ring us up and say ’ Oh , I , can I do this ’ , and we 've , you know people say , ’ Oh , well , I play the saxophone ’ , and then we find out that he 's got a huge band and he 's very famous , and they 've just rung us up to say , you know , can we play for you for free . |
| 28 | ‘ Can I study this in depth for a few hours ? ’ |
| 29 | So he said erm I said to the woman I went to the court this morning so he said when you explain to me he said I 've got money in my pockets cos I borrowed it from dad tha he said I owed sixty two pound so he said I said to the woman in the court how can I pay this the sixty two pounds when you 've frozen my account ? |
| 30 | Well what can I split this four up , what can I split that up into ? |