Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can tell school you been took poorly again . ’ |
| 2 | Yes , I can reassure management that it is worth spending money on advertising , because I can demonstrate , with good numbers , that it produces results . |
| 3 | I can confirm Chairman that the District Council of course consult the County Council on access to all applications |
| 4 | I can delegate authority over my son to a baby-sitter instructing him to make sure my son is in bed by a certain time . |
| 5 | Yeah I 'll ask mum if I can miss school on Friday |
| 6 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 7 | At least that way I can stop thinking , words bloody words . ’ |
| 8 | I can draw ma ? |
| 9 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 10 | Can you suggest why she behaves in this way and how I can prevent injury to everybody in the family ! |
| 11 | I do not want to play games in colour on my TV , I can do household accounts with a piece of paper and a pencil , I can learn languages easier from a book and a tape recorder , if I want information I can look it up and read it far faster than I can get it from a screen and I can turn back with a nip of the finger and read it again . |
| 12 | I can do juggling . |
| 13 | I can do juggling . |
| 14 | I can do cube roots and things . |
| 15 | See Friday , I can work Saturday morning , play rugby then pick you up or , I can do work Saturday morning play rugby just Saturday afternoon pick you up Sunday morning and stay for say , Sunday , a couple of hours on Sunday . |
| 16 | ‘ I can do animal impressions , ’ said Tommy . |
| 17 | I CAN DO BIRD IMPRESSIONS ! |
| 18 | I can do colouring . |
| 19 | ‘ But I do not feel I can do justice to that need here , in the uncomfortable cold of this cave . |
| 20 | If I can do table tennis and Scottish country dancing , nothing wo n't get me away from that . |
| 21 | I said , I can do tea . |
| 22 | ‘ Renton 's very definitely a man I can do business with ’ Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council was reported to have said , after a preliminary meeting . |
| 23 | ‘ Marshal , ’ he began , ‘ you look like a man I can do business with — ’ |
| 24 | There 's not so many warm spots as I can spare this'n . ’ |
| 25 | But she do n't ask me where nothing is , she just asks me if I can spare lOp . |
| 26 | I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population . |
| 27 | I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population . |
| 28 | I think I can spell school ! |
| 29 | I do n't feel I can abandon Crevecoeur after having worked with hir all this time . |
| 30 | Here I can remain calm . |