Example sentences of "you can [verb] [pers pn] you " in BNC.

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1 Okay but they were f they were twenty awkward ones if they said right we 'll have you pick any twenty words you know and see if you can spell them you 'd get twenty out of twenty would n't you .
2 You know you can do it you can do the fractions and once you 've turned it into twelfths you can do it .
3 That way you can tell me you 're all right , I can tell you I 'm all right , and who knows : it might make the son of a bitch edgy . ’
4 I 'll give my share to your mother and you can tell her you bought it from me ; that way she 'll be content and you 'll be a few pounds better off .
5 You can tell him you showed the girl a knife , that you got into her room and that she handed the wallet over .
6 You can tell him you 've slipped on to my payroll , ’ Silas said .
7 But they will dry nicely and you can either keep them green , or you can spray them you know at Christmas time .
8 Handsome new brass , china , enamelled metal or anodized steel all look very impressive , and if you can afford it you could have matching light and dimmer switches .
9 Now , you can see that coin down there , if you look carefully , you can see it you ca n't get it , you know where it is , it has n't gone through a hole into the centre of the earth it has n't , sort of , disappeared into outer space , you know exactly where it is , the chances are you could pin point it within a few inches of where i , even if you ca n't see it you know where it is , but you ca n't get at it to you , it 's lost you know it 's geographic location , you know when it went there , you know everything about it , you only thing is you ca n't get at it !
10 If you can hear me you must be within five or six miles of them but if they get to the Motorway first they 'll be able to lose you .
11 So if you can hack me you can hack anything .
12 And you think well of course it would would n't it you know you 're trying to you get to the stage you can believe me you get to the stage quite quickly where you ca n't understand why other people do n't see it .
13 Which is two five three , so if you 're in the ship you can have them you can do , work this out from the bearings they both give you and check that they 're roughly right , they wo n't be exactly right
14 No but you can get them you can get them for less than that .
15 If you can find him you can tape him
16 That was your annual affair and the er the er the chapel itself was at the end of it used to put up a tiered platform if you can imagine it you know at the end of the little chapel and the erm the younger children was on the bottom and as you got older you graduated to the top and er I do n't know why it was though but er I always had to say the collection piece .
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