Example sentences of "[noun] i can [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In that case I can tell you that in my humble opinion this place is the meanest , tightest little arsehole in the entire fucking country . |
| 2 | In that case I can give you my Mercury my business Mercury number and you can make phone calls on the company from here . |
| 3 | ‘ They 'll be there , but if you want to make a start on the print-outs I can let you have some tonight ? ’ |
| 4 | But er it 's so simple today when you realize the , the difference , how easy it is and but er that was an experience I can tell you . |
| 5 | Oh yes , as they were filming at the Lyceum last week they were , it were a good programme I can tell you |
| 6 | Doing a little research I can give you approximate numbers of the various things the Guild has made since the turn of the century as follows : 645 sets of Mass vestments , 121 copes , 226 altar cloths , 211 albs plus hundreds of pieces of small linen corporals , purificators amices , etc . |
| 7 | I bet you five pound I can make you blink . |
| 8 | ‘ Shift the cattle , work the horses , stick and ball , come back for lunch , an hour 's siesta , and you go out like a light I can tell you , then we play chukkas in the afternoon . |
| 9 | Hold it tight mummy I can tell you that if I let go you 'll let on the floor . |
| 10 | If this is , is a cold I can blame you ! |
| 11 | Besides , ’ he said , with the archest piece of self-justification , ‘ what help I can offer you now , I can best give from the inside . |
| 12 | You need the help I can give you because if you unknowingly make a false move or fail to react promptly because you 're not sure what to do , your daughter will be dispensed with as being too risky a property . |
| 13 | If you 're at all interested in that area then I have got you a reference I can give you to hand but it 's but a great deal of er architecture , certainly the thirties , forties , fifties reflected corporate status , corporate identity . |
| 14 | There are a lot of people here in your position and we 've got to try and please everybody , which is n't an easy job in this place I can tell you . ’ |
| 15 | She switches between spoken word , shouting through a megaphone with a sock in it and chirruping like a sweet but overexcitable nightingale , tracing a lineage back to Delta 5 , The Raincoats and The Slits ( marvellous days I can assure you ) . |
| 16 | Got plenty of hard work dear I can assure you . |
| 17 | Lad I can help you dad . |
| 18 | Well I would n't imagine myself doing this tonight Donald I can tell you that |
| 19 | But I mean in terms of knitwear over the last few years I can give you one or two examples which I think you 'll readily er understand . |
| 20 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 21 | Er in the years I can assure you . |
| 22 | Now speaking to you , as chairman of the G M B parliamentary group I can tell you that we have met twice over the last few weeks on this issue of modernization and we are agreed on the need to avoid a damaging public row from which everybody yes including the unions , will lose . |
| 23 | In His name I can crush you — or increase you . |
| 24 | But fortunately most people who are asked to help in surveys are prepared to accept that they are appropriate people to answer questions on the survey for which they are approached , and particularly where people feel that they are being asked to give ‘ expert ’ information this can be seen as rather a compliment : ‘ If you want to know about how a housewife organizes her day I can tell you everything you need to know . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't know how much longer you 'll be forced to put up with me , but until the happy day I can bid you farewell I 'll try to keep out of your hair as much as I can . |
| 26 | ‘ These are all the variations I can show you for the moment . ’ |
| 27 | Well if you want facts and figures on it we can give you it but I 'll tell you what it 's meant to I 'll tell you what it 's meant training service I can tell you what it 's meant to the royal dockyards which we 've got to talk about yet from thirteen thousand , in some instances you 're down to five . |
| 28 | Is there any service I can give you ( honestly ) . |
| 29 | We have a new Committee organising events after the AGM , but one future event I can tell you about is the trip to the Great British Beer Festival . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's done it brilliantly again and he 'll be better for that race I can tell you , ’ he said . |