Example sentences of "[modal v] we can " in BNC.

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1 I simply watched an American T V news item , but it gave me a frightening vision of what the future could hold in store for us , unless we fight the Tory policies with all our might we can muster .
2 We could we can , ah no no in terms of money he 's talking about four or five thousand maximum .
3 We have the money for the current week and for future weeks in our hands , we know come what may we can rely on our Family Allowance .
4 But shall we can go on forever , shall we leave it for Zain , Ian and I
5 Well we 've got twenty five minutes at present shall we can you just wipe around a couple of other things and then we 'll come back to that if time remains ?
6 If he makes no will we can hardly say that there is in early times any common law as to how his goods shall be divided ; much or all will depend on local custom .
7 While we 're out of God 's will we can not expect to experience God 's blessing .
8 Can we can we can we find out from the teacher whether in fact the school actually gets a a our information leaflet .
9 Can we can we can we find out from the teacher whether in fact the school actually gets a a our information leaflet .
10 But it might not be a bad idea to go down that route to see if we can we can see if it can be exploit it at this stage because we have discussed , and I know this is getting off the the the the agen
11 that we can we can
12 Can , yeah , can we can we vote on whether we 're going to improve pupil comment ?
13 we can we can review that again .
14 But we , we can we can differentiate between two , the two different sides still I think .
15 I think at that stage we can we can proceed .
16 And we are blending water supplies so that we can we can meet whatever limits are are applicable or appropriate .
17 Without democracy we would n't be able to say who should rule , with democracy we can we can say these people because we voted for them and that 's it , we ca n't say these people interests we ca n't say that these people act in common good although if they do very badly we 'll try and recall them , all we can say is they 're there we need , what we need is authority structures , we need the structures more than the people occupying the roles , someone 's got to occupy the roles and this is the only way we 've got of appointing them .
18 Sorry Mr , can can we can we leave that for later on when we talk about .
19 Now obviously the weight we can we can debate on Tuesday .
20 Well I was trying to stick with the size as an expression of whether the concept is one that should be pursued , and whether that influences the pursuing of the concept , can we can we leave the , the number of settlements till , till later on ?
21 I , I think we can we can look at what we can do about it in the future and whether it is practical to erm consult local members where possible .
22 So as a matter of fact we can we can actually fulfil their requirement .
23 Can we can we now recommence please .
24 We can we can er take photographs .
25 That 's alright , we can we can swap them round , I think , if we have them play first in one group and .
26 Er that but anyway we can we can organize that
27 Erm so yes I think we 're we can we can say we 've been leading from the front .
28 So can we can we keep it to that ?
29 Erm can we can you as part of the discussion , can you start off by saying well thank you very much for the call that you gave me last week but erm erm there 's there 's just a couple of sizes I 'd like to talk talk to you about .
30 Well we can we can but as I said , the two lads who know about it , who could do it , they said well it might take us two days .
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