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Example sentences for "can you"

  • Can you tell me if there is any place near where I can buy some dinner?

  • Can you give a poor man enough money to buy a cheap meal?

  • Can you attend to some business for me there?

  • Can you, or can you not, tell me what I want to know?

  • Can you look me in the face in the presence of that man?

  • Can you live on terms of mutual confidence and mutual esteem with me when I have committed this fraud, and when I stand toward you in this position?

  • Can you find it in your heart to leave him, Valeria, now that God's mercy has restored him to you and to me?

  • Can you manage to see Miserrimus Dexter before you go back to Edinburgh?

  • Can you tell me why, when other spiders die small and soon, that one great spider lived for centuries in the tower of the old Spanish church and grew and grew, till, on descending, he could drink the oil of all the church lamps?

  • Can you tell me what went before your going to Transylvania?

  • Now, Mr. Bilder, can you account in any way for the escape of the wolf?

  • Can you give us no help in solving it, monsieur?

  • With my poor Emily not yet buried, can you wonder I was anxious that no more lying rumours should be started.

  • Can you tell me the views of the other members of the family?

  • Can you do it by patting his back and saying, 'Poor Puss'?

  • Can you forgive, my dearly-beloved Adeline?

  • Listen," said Hulot; "can you put me up for a few days in a servant's room under the roof?

  • Can you give me a bond to the tune of thirty thousand francs a year, which is what the Duke has just given me in a packet of common sugared almonds from the grocer's?

  • Then, you can let me have some money, can you not?

  • Can you tell us where we can obtain a sight of the Piazza del Popolo?

  • You cannot guess," said he, "what there is in that small vase, can you?

  • Can you make no better bonfires than of rags and scraps?

  • Miggs, bridling; 'you can spare me now, can you?

  • Can you bear to hear them, Lady Blakeney?

  • Can you wonder, then, that Armand is unhappy.

  • Can you think of anything else, Sir Andrew, that he might want?

  • The nurse asked the boatman: 'Can you take us, can you take us to the kingdom of the peacocks?

  • Can you tell me which is the horse I have caught, and which is the one I had before?

  • As she held out the shilling, she lifted up her dark tear-filled eyes to the coachman's face and said, "Can you give me back sixpence?

  • Ah, sir, can you tell me anything about him?

  • Can you drink a drop out o' your hand, sir?

  • Can you--can you really be in love with James?

  • Can you, when you return from this lord's, come to Fullerton?

  • Can you, in short, be prevailed on to quit this scene of public triumph and oblige your friend Eleanor with your company in Gloucestershire?

  • Can you tell me who was the last person to leave the porch when Colonel de Geofroy made his farewell speech to-night at the club?

  • Can you furnish a clew to establish either of the last mentioned facts in connection with Jimmie's death?

  • Can you tell me if Mr. Philip Rochester recognized his room-mate when he was defending him in court?

  • Can you imagine a daughter of yours flaunting on the stage of fame, exhibiting herself to win the plaudits of a crowd, and not suffer anguish at the thought?

  • Well, then, can you promise me the same canine fidelity which I offer to you?

  • How, for instance, can you hope to benefit your friends, when you may rest assured the very friend whom you have made most your debtor will be the happiest to quit your sight as fast as may be?

  • And again, a further function: Can you conceive a service better qualified to gain intelligence beforehand and to hinder the secret sudden onslaughts of a hostile force, than a set of troopers always under arms and fully organised?

  • Can you conceive a more troublesome circumstance?

  • Can you suggest a means to avoid the hatred of which they are the cause?

  • Can you, with the assistance of this cigar, wait until both Sir Walter Cholmondeliegh and the mystic Wimpole have left this house?

  • Charlie," said Basil hoarsely, "can you believe in my common sense for four minutes?

  • Can you tell me any place on earth in which a green house would be inconspicuous?


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "can you" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after what has happened; can have; can help; can remember; can take; can you; canned fruit; cannel coal; cannot afford; cannot bring; cannot come; cannot doubt; cannot find; cannot have; cannot help; cannot pass; cannot recollect; cannot represent; cannot see; cannot speak; cannot think; canst thou; formed from; pounds could; ringing voice; time limit