Example sentences of "can [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deadly combination can make Lewis king |
| 2 | comment I can make Bob , but it is a potentially |
| 3 | ‘ She can make Garth smile when nobody else can , ’ says Pat . |
| 4 | If another lot of talks can make Iraq obey the demands of the UN Security Council , then the chance to avoid further bloodshed should be gratefully seized . |
| 5 | From their room they can make UK or international calls at rates set by the hotelier , enabling recovery of the cost of the call , together with a service charge . |
| 6 | Not only is the Spirit the one who convicts a man of sin : it is he , and only he , who can make Jesus attractive . |
| 7 | Intriguingly enough , the only way I can make Selina actually want to go to bed with me is by not wanting to go to bed with her . |
| 8 | An individual friend may not persuade you to jump off a cliff , but peer-group pressure can make Gadarene swine of us all . |
| 9 | It 's on do n't , they reckon they can make Cheshire anywhere now ca n't they ? |
| 10 | Setting up the prospect of some lively debate over the next couple of weeks , Cypress said last week that ‘ HyperSparc is a better product : we can make HyperSparc , ’ casting Viking as ‘ a big complex chip which is unmakeable . ’ |
| 11 | If we can make EDI work effectively everyone will benefit , but getting going is a pain , frankly . ’ |
| 12 | The 210 children have taken up the panto 's challenge and sought the advice of professional builders so they can construct Wendy 's house in brick in their school yard . |
| 13 | It seems that on the basis of Canto 7 we can explain Pound 's hostility to Virgil very simply indeed : it was precisely Virgil 's melancholy , the lacrimae rerum which endears him to so many , that Pound could not stomach , so sanguine as he was and so determined to remain so . |
| 14 | Perhaps he can explain Falconer 's macabre joke about graves ? ’ |
| 15 | He can compare Germany with what it was in the Thirties . |
| 16 | You can compare Ryedale and Hambleton , which are not very different . |
| 17 | Yes , it 's interesting you see , if you , if you can compare Freud with other writers who are in the same kind of area and league like . |
| 18 | The question now is not whether the other countries of Europe can absorb Germany ; it is about the costs and the benefits of latching on to her . |
| 19 | But nothing , and certainly not articulating his words ‘ cheerfully and artlessly ’ , can muffle Tikhon 's diagnosis which is that Stavrogin suffers from ‘ indifference ’ . |
| 20 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 21 | ‘ They can treat PCP now , ’ Babur says . |
| 22 | At this stage perhaps I can emphasize Jan this is such a flexible concept that er we are anxious not to lay down any rigid rules as to how it works because if some things do n't work very well , they can be altered and if some things do prove to work well like the event we had at Felixstowe we can build on that success so quite consciously we 're not laying down any rigid rules as to how things go and we will look to review how officers we , we erm advise you as members in the light of practical experience . |
| 23 | Somewhere around there she can stash Jamie 's things . |
| 24 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 25 | ‘ If they can locate Suzie I 'll willingly pay them . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll see if I can locate Mr Clancy , ’ she said , in some alarm . |
| 27 | The pig 's range is usually given as Java , Madura and Bawean , but you can subtract Madura now , since that 's been deforested and thus depigged ( de-everythinged , in fact ) . |
| 28 | Tivoli has also built a toolkit for non-programmers called the Application Extension Facility ( AEF ) so they can customise Tivoli applications and migrate existing systems management programmes to a standard . |
| 29 | Anything that can pierce the skin can transmit HIV by transferring blood from one person to another . |
| 30 | In Germany , you can eat Ostertorte , a mocha-filled sponge piled with miniature eggs . |