Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan Sowerby says I should go home , so perhaps she thinks I can help him . ’ |
| 2 | Many pitches are on steep slabs with wonderful ‘ letter-box ’ holds you can sink your whole hand in ! |
| 3 | then anyone who wants it can call us . |
| 4 | ‘ It was the first time I did n't have to worry what the other girls were gon na think , what anyone was gon na think and if I do n't like what happens I can cut it out … |
| 5 | ‘ Nick says I can do whatever I like ! |
| 6 | Oh he says I can get you one , I said I want to hear it first |
| 7 | I , I says , I 'll let you know sometime today or tomorrow and er anyway , he was expecting me to say at least two or three or four weeks you know er because I 'd put the situation I had no tools , no nothing and erm I er had a look at it and I thought what I could do , and I says I can let you have them in a week . |
| 8 | He says I can have it . |
| 9 | She says she can remember it was very exciting , people from London coming down onto our farm and her father being interviewed and all the scenes she was in . |
| 10 | A woman wanted for questioning about the disappearance of thousands of pounds of charity money says she can prove her innocence . |
| 11 | She says she can prove she spent money from the Worcestershire Kurdish Refugee Association on aid . |
| 12 | Melinda says she can sell her services 40 per cent cheaper than when she had a showroom . |
| 13 | Bryony says she can see one in the sky . |
| 14 | But when — suddenly — for no apparent reason your twin rejects the offer of marriage from the man you always believed she loved , and whom you always loved yourself ; when she turns round and says you can marry him yourself if you feel that strongly about him … suddenly your world is upside down . |
| 15 | I done it , I did it all neat and tidy the whole way round till we got round to the door and I says you can do it , no way am I cutting round there big chunk |
| 16 | About seven years he says you can expect them to start going like then , you know and I |
| 17 | It says you can cut your motoring costs and use less petrol ‘ and that does n't mean doing less miles ’ . |
| 18 | It does , it 's hundred watts , yeah it says you can use anything between four and eight Os |
| 19 | So I give him one here you are er I says you can have it . |
| 20 | if you got T V monitors you can watch what 's going |
| 21 | THE Northern League 's Easter ‘ Ground Hoppers ’ weekend gathers pace : there 's even been an enquiry from Cork and a chap in Birmingham who says we can use his name to guarantee Northern League hospitality . |
| 22 | You 're the one who says we can stick anything if we know where we 're going . ’ |
| 23 | Some girls have the relationship with their mothers that if anything happens they can tell their mother . |
| 24 | And so you 're , er , have actually , you 're at or whatever , erm , it would be nice to think , and I 'm not exactly sure , my geography 's not that good at that particular part , but you , you sort of tend to look at it , and say , right if he 's in and out , and it 's ten o'clock and somebody says they can see him at eleven , you know , and there 's this tendency , to say , well erm , O K. Yes ? |
| 25 | That assumes they can decide which goals are more important than others . |
| 26 | He says he can do nothing , and we must go back to Hull , because of a small storm ! |
| 27 | He says he can do it . |
| 28 | He says he can find his way up the Orinoco and discover the Seven Cities of Gold where the streets are paved with precious metals , and dusky , full-bosomed maidens scatter gems and pennies . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , Archie has a boat , and he says he can take us out to the bird islands , and I 'm sure we could get him to take you somewhere in the Land-Rover where you can fish . |
| 30 | He says he can remember he was burnt in the fire and that his sister died in the fire . |