Example sentences of "you can [verb] [adv] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you can guess exactly where I fell that night . |
| 2 | Right , you can stay here till it 's better . |
| 3 | ‘ You can stay here until we close up for the night , ’ she said . |
| 4 | ‘ You can stay below if you like . |
| 5 | ‘ You can stay there while you 're in Venice . ’ |
| 6 | So we asked council if they could get us a place and they offered us a flat at first over the other side , I do n't know what walk it was on , and they says , You can stay there until we get an house for you . |
| 7 | ‘ Let's see if you can waltz better than you can speak our lingo . |
| 8 | If you sell farm butter and cheese instead of whole milk you can do well if you have the right market . |
| 9 | ‘ You think that you can do just as you like — well , you 're wrong . ’ |
| 10 | Finally , you have to believe that you can do better than them . |
| 11 | Take my money and see if you can do better than me ! |
| 12 | I know you can do better because I 've heard you do it . ’ |
| 13 | I read that runners could only run five ultra events a year , but that year I ran eight , then 13 the next year and 18 the next , and I think others began to realise you can do more if you take the right approach . ’ |
| 14 | Right some things that you can do then if you 're an A type . |
| 15 | Something you can do only if you are working pretty closely with one another , but we are now working with a number of customers to get this up and running . |
| 16 | You do not have to include a general model for your allies but you can do so if you wish . |
| 17 | Well erm probably on the back you can select whether it er sends a number by pulse , and you can tell actually cos it 's very you d you 'll dial |
| 18 | You can go anywhere if you have this point of contact . |
| 19 | Some of these you can answer directly because we 've already the music . |
| 20 | Neither of you can leave here until I have seen the photographs and the writing . ’ |
| 21 | Ms Noble 's talk will be the first item on the agenda and you can leave early if you wish to , though you are , of course , welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting . |
| 22 | ‘ You can quit now if you want to . |
| 23 | It takes you and deposits you at the edge of a precipice and you can watch helplessly as you dangle and your hopes for survival are sinking into the depths of despair ’ . |
| 24 | You can come home when you 've finished . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Success means you can spend more when you go shopping . |
| 26 | Outdoor pelota you can hear long before you can see it , because the sharp crack of the ball on the end-wall carries all through or even outside the villages . |
| 27 | I know you can listen even if you ca n't talk . |
| 28 | Certainly , for your first few flights , your left hand should be close to the release knob , so that you can release immediately if you get into a bad swing or a wing-tip goes onto the ground . |
| 29 | I mean , I 've put my hand on The Bump lots of times already , and all you can say really when it jiggles about is , ‘ How nice ’ , and ‘ Is n't that interesting ’ and ‘ Wonder if it 's a boy or a girl ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You can wait here until I get back from the Khirgiz . ’ |