Example sentences of "[adj] can [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not sit in the hottest bath that you can stand , because this can make you feel faint and you could pass out when you stand up . |
| 2 | this , well this can make you feel , ca n't it ? |
| 3 | Long narrow plots often adjoin older properties and this can give you the opportunity of working existing trees and shrubs into the new design . |
| 4 | This can give you the earliest possible warning , especially important if you live in a big house . |
| 5 | Again you will need to investigate the legality of hiring for classroom use but where it is legal this can give you access mainly to feature films , cartoons for children and possibly to some documentary series . |
| 6 | This can exhaust you , both physically and emotionally , which undermines your efforts to help the patient , so that you are both likely to end up suffering more . |
| 7 | Write notes on what they say , suggesting that a record is being kept ( this can help you think more rationally about counter-attack , but it may be distracting — in which case , a supporter could do it ) . |
| 8 | Getting busted can lose you your job and wreck chances of future work — yet most of us know plenty of people staggering into work pissed and no mention is made . |
| 9 | Getting busted can lose you your job and wreck chances of future work — yet most of us know plenty of people staggering into work pissed and no mention is made . |
| 10 | The table on page 10 can help you find a club that 's just right for you . |
| 11 | See if Spiderglass Central can correlate you with any — ’ |
| 12 | There are many can tell you what I suffer at his hands though I serve him as best I can . |
| 13 | Take a dozen men , and if more can serve you , send for them . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ An ’ it 's the fright we 've had I can tell you . |
| 15 | Even with a substantial sum , the money available can buy you very different amounts of contact with the public : in conventional media analysis terms of coverage of adults and opportunities to see ( OTS ) an ad , £300000 could buy you , nationally , in early 1992 , the ‘ campaigns ’ in the main media which are shown in Table 10.1 . |
| 16 | 1 can overrule you on this . ’ |
| 17 | -I can send you a plainclothes man if necessary , somebody young who can pretend to be looking for her . ’ |
| 18 | If you are not , and I have to stress this very carefully then they will call the nearest available garage and the garage will come there very quickly and they will tow you off into the nearest exit and there they will leave you and that can cost you probably , in excess of ninety pounds . |
| 19 | Of course I worry about that because I 'm a human being , but that can make you paralysed . |
| 20 | And that can make you a problem . |
| 21 | Well in really warm weather a T-shirt and shorts may be enough but as it gets colder so you need to add layers of sweaters , trousers and top the whole thing up with a wind and waterproof spray suit but all that can make you a little clumsy , so the answer for most British sailors is a wetsuit like the ones that you and Suzanne are wearing . |
| 22 | Erm that can make you of course more hungry . |
| 23 | Besides , the continual cloying presence of a bugger like that can wear you down after a while . ’ |
| 24 | And that can save you pounds . |
| 25 | Apologising and being self-deprecating can let you off the hook . |
| 26 | Being too aggressive can land you in trouble — and still not get you paid . |