Example sentences of "can [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in my mind that this last outrage can not be allowed to pass , nor can I longer leave the handling of the affair to Prince Henry or his advisers . |
| 2 | Can I honestly reassure her that she will come to no harm in pursuing this phenomenon ? |
| 3 | ‘ How can I honestly feel that way , knowing what he did to Mark — the way he treated him ? ’ |
| 4 | Can I can I honestly make a suggestion ? |
| 5 | 2 ) Can I easily get a replacement cartridge/cassette for a tape echo machine ? |
| 6 | Can I please urge you to visit the exhibition hall during the course of congress . |
| 7 | Can I please ? |
| 8 | Can I please because I have to be off in a few minutes . |
| 9 | Before we leave this Mr , can I please ask you if you accept what Mr has said in paragraph three of his statement B three double O two , the statement on behalf of the Parish Council ? |
| 10 | So — can I please appeal to those of you ( teachers and class members ) who are having difficulty in deciding just what fund raising ideas to put into operation — 1985 is now upon us — and — Time Flies ’ . |
| 11 | Can I please ? |
| 12 | Girls , can I please persuade you not to touch the dish , whatever else if you need slide it then use , you see that |
| 13 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 14 | And can I please recommend you speak to your finance and admin people and they will say , now do n't expect to be saying , oh that 'll be no problem , because we na , we ai n't got a F and A like that , they 're always to caution , you know . |
| 15 | The professional 's main problem is always : how can I best help and advise these parents as they try to solve their problem ? |
| 16 | No how many contracts can I physically get if I want ? |
| 17 | Can I here ? |
| 18 | Only by a stupendous act of imagination , only by actually putting myself in his skin in that room at that time can I even begin to attempt any sort of answer which moves by the smallest degree away from the natural responses of disgust and revulsion which all of us instinctively wish to express . |
| 19 | How can I even listen to this stuff , let alone join in ? |
| 20 | We can I well I |
| 21 | Can I just drop you off ? ’ |
| 22 | Can I just say on this subject that while I understand the arguments on both sides of the fence , remember that for every successful composer there are hundreds who are not , and their cause is not helped by someone taping their album for a friend . |
| 23 | How can I just ring her out of the blue and tell her that her daughter has married the first Italian she 's met , without telling any of us ? ’ |
| 24 | Well , if it 's all right with you , for the first seven hours can I just look at you ? |
| 25 | Can I just touch it ? |
| 26 | Can I just introduce people on the platform to you this evening . |
| 27 | . Can I just ask the other question perhaps which is relevant when people do make a contribution if they actually identify themselves so that may be useful if actually know who people are representing themselves or representing an organisation . |
| 28 | Can I just say something else as well ? |
| 29 | Can I just say just say one thing Paul and for myself erm I do n't think that Brenda just two things I 'm a very against character assassination erm I do n't think that Brenda was character assassinizing |
| 30 | Can I just say two things on that first of all I think you 're right . |