Example sentences of "can [pers pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Can I be of assistance , gentlemen ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Now , how can I be of help to you ? ’ she said , taking her own seat behind the barrier of the desk . |
| 3 | How can I be of assistance ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ How can I be of assistance ? ’ it said . |
| 5 | Yes , Mrs Jones , we have a room booked for you on the thirtieth of July — can I be of any assistance to you ? |
| 6 | Always answer the phone clearly and say who you are — ‘ Jane Murphy , can I help you ’ or ‘ Good morning , Murphy speaking , can I be of assistance . ’ |
| 7 | " So how can I be of assistance to you ? " she asked , fixing a professional smile to her face , the same smile she used when dealing with difficult customers or when fixing the amount to paid out in bribes . |
| 8 | Can I be of help ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Can I be of help ? ’ she asked . |
| 10 | ‘ In what particular can I be of comfort to Prince Llewelyn ? ’ |
| 11 | Can I be with Papa then ? |
| 12 | I meant it when I said ’ Roy can I be in your next ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Can you be for real ? ’ he muttered . |
| 14 | ‘ Can you be at the stage door in an hour ? ’ |
| 15 | Can you be near the ticket office at the Hauptbahnhof one hour from now ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But how can you be like that ? ’ |
| 17 | Can we be of any assistance ? |
| 18 | ‘ Can we be on our way ? ’ |
| 19 | Greer , for instance , aims to produce change by ‘ bending and selecting ’ the meanings of male psychologists ' words : ‘ What else can they be for ? |
| 20 | Second , once identified , can they be of any use in helping us solve real-life issues ? |
| 21 | He says how can they be of use in curing Anorexia or Bolemia when they 're caused by socio-economic factors which monkeys ca n't experience . |
| 22 | I felt that to be er truthful now , I mean , how excited can they be about |
| 23 | How effective can he be in drawing Britain 's fragmented medical and health science into a national framework ? |
| 24 | How then can it be worth five more years ? ’ |
| 25 | What can it be about women 's bodies , apart from their being so incredibly interesting ? |
| 26 | If the latter , can it be for any offence or only for a serious one , and is the offence in the problem sufficiently serious ? |
| 27 | PAMELA : But Mrs. Jervis , let me ask you , if he can stoop to like such a poor girl as me , what can it be for ? |
| 28 | ‘ Whoever can it be at this time of night ? ’ asked Elizabeth . |
| 29 | Or what can it be in the context of large-scale modern societies ? |
| 30 | If , in your judgment , Sir , a question is out of order , how can it be in order for the Prime Minister to have a response ? |