Example sentences of "you can [verb] you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a little advance preparation , though , you can ensure you have time to relax and enjoy Christmas morning . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , I would advocate studying some subject in depth , not necessarily as an undergraduate , so that you can feel you have really mastered it at some stage in your career . |
| 3 | YOU can do you part to help this project by making known to class members when and where the course is and PLEASE do hold membership drives in your classes , many of you have had excellent results in the past , although we know that others do find it very difficult to ‘ sell ’ membership , but you can still ‘ whip up ’ some enthusiasm if you try . |
| 4 | Anne ‘ s quick wit made her popular and one of the women said admiringly , ‘ You can tell you come from a big family , girl , the way you come out with the wisecracks . ’ |
| 5 | You can tell you made reminiscent with your slang |
| 6 | You can think you know someone as well as yourself , but then you are caught up , surprised , by something they say . |
| 7 | and what 's the , where you can go you see for |
| 8 | Disclosing what 's happening to you can make you feel better and , as described earlier in this chapter , it can also raise your status : ‘ I feel quite tongue-tied in this company ’ or ‘ That comment 's made me go quite red ! ’ |
| 9 | Say yeah you can make you know the big bright lights and things like that . |
| 10 | Or you can decide you do not need to commute to work but instead will participate in the 11am meeting in VR . |
| 11 | And the more you can show you have been closely involved in the battle from an early stage , the more weight you will carry if and when you decide to initiate legal action . |
| 12 | You can speak you know . |
| 13 | Now s You can start you 've still got ta get the every I would get everything over to one side of the equals sign . |
| 14 | ‘ And if you can prove you need your car for work they wo n't take your licence away , ’ Elinor added . |
| 15 | Even from er the quality of the brochure I mean you can see you know I mean that 's quite high level |
| 16 | ‘ Well , if there 's no one you can call you 'd better stay the night . |
| 17 | I think its just an extreme form of friendship , you 've become extremely friendly with somebody and it can be kind , in love with your , with your girlfriend it do n't have to be in love with your boyfriend , you can have you know some body who 's a same sex and you 've got the same feelings towards them |
| 18 | You can did you say ? |
| 19 | you can take you know horses to water , but |
| 20 | but then you can , you can specialize you see , I mean some nurses go into the theatre all the time once they 've qualified |
| 21 | But then you can sa , you can specialize you see . |
| 22 | and I say well come on I said you can you can smile you know . |
| 23 | And if you give me dad 's five pound well I can mark his off and then you can tell him then , I 'll leave your card here and you can say you 've paid and you owe me five pound . |
| 24 | It 's when at the end of your career you can say that you have benefitted some part of society , if not all of society , that you can say you have done well . |
| 25 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
| 26 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |
| 27 | ‘ At least , ’ said Penny Warlock , ‘ you can say you have taught in a good school . |
| 28 | You can say you read about them here first . |
| 29 | Occasionally you can say you think they 're being stupid or have they thought about other things but at the end of the day people are answerable erm for their own decisions I feel and , if I have an opportunity I 'll tell them what I think , but er if people are n't wanting your opinion then you ca n't really give it |
| 30 | Oh you can say you understand , you feel sympathetic , make all the right sounds , but you ca n't know , there 's no way , not the sense of not belonging , of being in a group but always outside it , always different . |