Example sentences of "can [verb] you [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , since you ask so nicely , I suppose I can spare you a couple of moments , ’ she said , with a touch of her old wry humour .
2 ‘ We can make you a stretcher , ’ said Grimma .
3 And that can make you a problem .
4 Remember , I can make you a duchess one day .
5 I can make you a sandwich . ’
6 I 'm gon na , I can make you a paper star , if you 'd like .
7 We can lend you a pair of goggles if you do n't wan na buy them .
8 ‘ If you 'd like a dip , we can lend you a costume , ’ James would say casually .
9 See the next FOCUS for other policy proposals — and if you would like more detailed information about the above we can lend you the documents .
10 I can promise you the phone wo n't ring , well it might ring but we wo n't answer it .
11 So erm you know , if you , if you er , do n't know what to say to your family to buy for Christmas , why not come and have a eyebrow trim and they can buy you a gift voucher for that ?
12 Now neither Ben there , nor me , can watch you every moment of the day .
13 This activity is performed by the hand , when we think by writing ; by the mouth and larynx , when we think by speaking ; and if we think by imagining signs or pictures , I can give you no agent that thinks .
14 Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form .
15 I can give you a couple examples of the more tangible advantages with reference to schemes which are administered by the erm Science and Engineering Research Council .
16 They , they said well we can redo it for you , they said we can give you a reduction in it , and he sort of bartered with them , and I think he got , you know , a good couple of hundred pound off just for this little chip in the unit .
17 So I can give you a B a B price for that one .
18 Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes
19 You 've got an address , if you give that to the collators departments they can give you a name for the occupier can they ?
20 I mean , th there are other things that can give you a hit .
21 I can give you a leg son .
22 Look , I can give you a lesson or two . ’
23 We can give you a maximum of five horses .
24 Well exactly , yes , she can give you a ring erm or I could give you a ring for that matter erm .
25 If the local authority do not have a list of housing associations in their area ask them for the address of the regional office of the Housing Corporation , who can give you a list .
26 I can give you a list of people to write to .
27 I 'm not saying I can give you a figure , all I can say is that originally identifiable will not be forthcoming now because some of this proposal is not meeting them .
28 ‘ We can give you a lift to Adrar , ’ said Idris .
29 ‘ But I can give you a lift home .
30 Erm so I was there , at the odd occasions when I can give you a lift up but the they 'll be very odd .
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