Example sentences of "[pron] can [vb infin] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can tell you the precise date , if you like . |
| 2 | I can show you the broken elastic in my tracksuit if you like . |
| 3 | ‘ I can give you the exact quote . |
| 4 | W eight thousand eight hundred I can give you the precise figure |
| 5 | After she was found dead and there were so-many questions and Mena told so much , she said to Constanza — oh , I can give you the very words , I shall never forget them — Mena said , ‘ One day many many years ago , when the old principessa was still alive , she opened a door and saw them , the prince and the Marchesa Giulia , in the long room at Castelfonte . ’ |
| 6 | I think it 's debatable how selfish people really are , particularly when they see that their are short-term selfishness may in fact create long-term problems for themselves , for their children , for their grandchildren , for er other generations and other peoples , and really as I can see it the green message is one of enlightened self-interest . |
| 7 | I said I said well now someone can buy him the other one for christmas . |
| 8 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 9 | I suggest you have someone take a look at it who can tell you the exact problem and not speculate as to probable causes and costs . |
| 10 | ‘ You can send me the odd card if you like . |
| 11 | You can tell them the true way things stand . ’ |
| 12 | If you can tell him the whole town pays for itself , that 's far more impressive than — ’ |
| 13 | If you are faced with a filthy horse on an equally filthy day , you can give him the equine equivalent of a bed bath . |
| 14 | If you want to get personal then two can play at that , and I swear on my lifelong friendships with the late Mrs Gandhi , Brian Clough and Michael Parkinson that I will burn my brand new membership card of the NUJ on the square at Headingley if you can name me the full Yorkshire team you 're chairman of . |
| 15 | You can shew me the exact spot and that will save time . |
| 16 | okay , there 's all sorts of them , I mean you can have it the wrong nought , |
| 17 | " Then if you wo n't take him willingly you can take him the other way . |
| 18 | Or you can say it the other way round That 'll be a negative correlation Now the alternative would be when you plot them you get a circle almost , you get , there appears to be no systematic relationship between the two So what you 'd be tempted to say is , no correlation Now I 'm gon na try and move towards how we might measure , how might we actually measure , get a measure of correlation because what you 'd be able to say is , well they 're more correlated or less correlated . |
| 19 | If the Commonwealth War Commission do n't know how to get hold of the War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission can give us the information we want provided we can give them the christian name of the person and the regiment . |
| 20 | We can give you the following . |
| 21 | Or we can do it the other way round , it does n't matter . |