Example sentences of "[pers pn] say [pers pn] can [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 2 | Ekland , talking about when she said it can handle a woman like a lift , he knew exactly where to locate the top button , one flick and we were on our way |
| 3 | The spelling can be given , and you ( or a pupil ) can ask how it should be pronounced , e.g. @how would you say You can ask a pupil to give similar real words to support a particular pronunciation , e.g. sawk could be associated with law , saw , squawk , etc . |
| 4 | Did she say you can use a dictionary ? |
| 5 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
| 6 | This bloke says he wants four or five other vans by the end of next year and he says if you can get your driving lessons all done and passed he says you can take a van out on your own and have someone working under you I 'd , like you work under me . |
| 7 | He says — what 's that phrase of his ? — he says he can drop a stone into that particular well and never hear the splash . |
| 8 | He says he can guarantee a student will pass after just 3 weeks cramming . |
| 9 | It says it can make a profit by selling the data around the world — and save the US taxpayer cash by reducing public spending . |
| 10 | That 's what he said , he said she can throw a tantrum he said and get everybody sort of feeling sorry for her he said , as and when she wants he said . |
| 11 | I have asked a couple of guys at the college you know and one fellow said the tray , oh he said , you can buy this tray from a builders , oh he said you can make a , a cover and I said oh god , make it the same colour as the mat and the er |
| 12 | And I said , what you on about ? , he said if I do , if I do n't pay out two hundred and odd pound now that left for our tickets he said , I 've only hundred and odd come in , he said you can have a drink on the rest ! |