Example sentences of "[pron] can [verb] [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can do nothing to help except give them good references and a few quid to tide them over . |
| 2 | If I can do anything to help you only have to ask . ’ |
| 3 | I intend to make my home here in this town , and if I can do anything to ensure that the people here are treated fairly I shall do it . |
| 4 | No okay because it 's as I was saying usually between sort of round about the middle of the day there 's people knocking on the door all the time so if you can sort of get sort of earlier or later it 's we 're likely to have a y'know half an hour when I can show you to do S P S S on it . |
| 5 | Even I can stir myself to do that on that kind of basis . |
| 6 | I 've made a complete fool of myself and I do n't think I can bring myself to ask what I came to . " |
| 7 | ‘ But those do n't apply to us as they imply a sharing that 's total , and there 's only one area of my life that I can bring myself to share with you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I can bring her to meet you tomorrow , ’ said Mr Bumble . |
| 9 | ‘ And he has all the support I can give him to go for it next year . ’ |
| 10 | I mean normally I do n't bother with the tokens , I mean I Anyway I paid the cheque and I said to Peter I said oh by the way what about me tokens for me for me toy I said if I get a free one of them I can give it to give it to the grandchildren . |
| 11 | I hope that I can enable him to understand the laws of the game with which we are now involved . |
| 12 | I 'll do my make-up first , something fairly neutral so I can choose what to wear later . |
| 13 | It remains quite clear across the years , the topography absolutely plain , so precise in details of dress that I can use them to place the dream in historical time . |
| 14 | I can put them to use . |
| 15 | If I get home soon I can have summat to eat . |
| 16 | Well that 's all right I 'll I can provide somebody to run it and |
| 17 | ‘ She 's got no one of her own to turn to in this country , but the notion that I can help her to clear Rick is so fantastic it is n't true . |
| 18 | But I think I can help you to know what to do about it . |
| 19 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 20 | I can force you to pay . ’ |
| 21 | If you refuse to co-operate I can force you to pay me the money you owe me . |
| 22 | and I hope that I can train him to keep it that way |
| 23 | If I can ask you to sign to say you know that . |
| 24 | If I can ask you to read through this for me before you and it will tell you exactly what will happen during your training |
| 25 | If I can ask you to read that |
| 26 | I can ask you to accept that I should n't have come to you like this if I did not believe that the matter may turn out to be very grave indeed . |
| 27 | I can ask it to read one of these three files , and it presents me with a one-dimensional array of alphabetical characters , including the characters that you are now reading . |
| 28 | There 's champagne in the fridge , and I 'm sure I can find something to eat . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ 'T IS only until I can find someone to convey a message to the Queen , begging her to see me . ’ |
| 30 | As soon as I can find someone to stay with the girls , for a night or two if it 's necessary , I 'm going to go . |