Example sentences of "can [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can explain to him about your system and he 'll put the books back where he found them . ’ |
| 2 | I mean I get phone calls everyday all day long from VETS who are saying I 've got this prickly ball , what the hell do I do with it , you see , and I can explain to them how to try and unroll a hedgehog and then what to do when you get inside the hedgehog . |
| 3 | You can explain to her why I rushed off , that I want to give her time to think things over without me around to distract her . |
| 4 | Probably the easiest way I can explain to you how athletics has changed since Eric Liddell won Olympic Gold in 1924 is to ask you to put the situation in a modern context . |
| 5 | Erm , now we , we can explain to you in more detail , but the finan I think Mr 's already said to you that the financial savings er , from such moves are not as productive as they were , so in sense we 're driven by strategy here , we 're driven by the fact that there is a private and there is an independent sector that is there , there is alternative methods of supply . |
| 6 | We believe that we would , we would find considerable difficulty too , in closing one plus in a single financial year , er , for all sorts of reasons which we can explain to you . |
| 7 | He accepts it only because of what he calls ‘ an insuperable logical difficulty ’ : position is not a quality , so a sensation can convey to us the position of a stimulus only by virtue of our ability to interpret something about it as meaning a certain position . |
| 8 | I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ? |
| 9 | ‘ The nice thing about being a woman talking about women 's things is that , as you grow older , you can relate to them . |
| 10 | situational humour , ie funny within the context of the situation people are in at the time so that people can relate to it through a common , shared experience |
| 11 | If people around the world can relate to it , what the melody is , then you 've got a timeless classic . ’ |
| 12 | I try to be selective on purpose so the productions are realistic like kitchen sink drama because people can relate to it , ’ said Hanson . |
| 13 | And having been brought up outside Scotland , I think I can relate to it . |
| 14 | This makes it possible to believe that God can relate to us , and that he can reach out to us and transform our nature . |
| 15 | You ca n't really dance to it but you can stomp to it . |
| 16 | Some people probably think I take too long to decide such matters , but I can demonstrate to them that sometimes by giving people a reasonable length of time to adjust they come through with flying colours . |
| 17 | And it is very difficult to influence children e , who are starting at the age of ten to fifteen with threats of lung cancer at the age group between fifty and sixty regardless of the horrors that you can describe to them . |
| 18 | Nor is it so regular that we can trust to it altogether to fix the exact date of any given work . |
| 19 | You can appeal to them never to say or do things which they would be ashamed for you to know . ’ |
| 20 | She 's been in Paris on business for two days , but she 'll be back this evening , so you can speak to her about it . ’ |
| 21 | You and Osman , you and the Fry , though you have told me of your perfect freedom and exchange of ideas etc. were never freer than Edward and I. Sometimes I wonder that I can speak to him as I do , never before having known a boy , and having only you at times to ‘ let out , on . |
| 22 | Please , would you come over to Club Eleusis and bring Malamute with you so I can speak to him ? |
| 23 | You can speak to him yourself . ’ |
| 24 | I sent money and a small gift for Harry : ‘ if you can speak to him , that is — he will have been in enough hot water already on my account … ’ |
| 25 | I think if you 've got somebody who 's got a er a solicitor or an accountant then you need to establish why he wants to talk to them and also er if he , if he 's adamant that he wants to do that , find out who he is and ask if you can speak to him as well , or you can explain erm you know what the , what , what you 're doing with the client . |
| 26 | Because , if not , I 'm going to see my solicitor in the morning , cos if you wo n't speak to me , you can speak to him instead ! |
| 27 | She is so loyal ; but she knows she can speak to me . |
| 28 | Erm , just a word about the previous speaker , I 'm also involved with water meters and if he wants to know how to , how to make them go backwards , if he can speak to me afterwards I do n't have . |
| 29 | ‘ But that is a quite separate issue from the Alternative Services book which is an alternative way of enabling congregations who have not been well versed in Cranmerian language nevertheless to use a language which does reflect their longings and their prayers and can speak to them of God . ’ |
| 30 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |