Example sentences of "you can [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can send me the odd card if you like . |
| 2 | You can tell them the true way things stand . ’ |
| 3 | If you can tell him the whole town pays for itself , that 's far more impressive than — ’ |
| 4 | If you are faced with a filthy horse on an equally filthy day , you can give him the equine equivalent of a bed bath . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You can shew me the exact spot and that will save time . |
| 7 | It 's got a very thick safety glass door on it so you can see what the little dears are doing but ca n't hear them . ’ |
| 8 | okay , there 's all sorts of them , I mean you can have it the wrong nought , |
| 9 | " Then if you wo n't take him willingly you can take him the other way . |
| 10 | 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 . |