Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] can [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my greatest frustrations is having to tell my electors , in correspondence and personally , that there is nothing I can do about a proposal because a decision has already been taken somewhere else — albeit by ministers , one of whom is a Member of the House — that there is nothing that anyone can do because the decision has been taken outside these shores , so there is no point in writing to me . |
| 2 | I I can think of a I can think of a few th of them who are going to be completely incomprehensible to you . |
| 3 | Yes I I can remember as a child my grandmother 's erm , family all lived in the east end and I can remember that the you know on the occasions that they used to come down and see us there was always tins of fruit and all sorts of |
| 4 | You can look forward to some sort of land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of a view and , let's face it , the mountain will still be there when you come back . |
| 5 | By sailing along behind someone you can act as a human video and when your partner has finished his run you can mimic what he was doing . |
| 6 | There is no way in which I can vote for a guillotine which so severely curtails debate in Committee . |
| 7 | The natural prototype for a metric space is the world we live in , where the metric is Euclidean distance which you can measure with a ruler . |
| 8 | You receive a book of orders ( or pension book ) which you can cash at a post office of your choice . |
| 9 | If you are feeling particularly energetic , there are tennis courts right next door to the apartments which you can hire for a small charge . |
| 10 | Ken and Pat Ferguson would like to re-cover your dining-chair seats for a labour charge of only £5 each plus the cost of fabric , which you can choose from a selection of pieces available in stock at reduced prices , or supply your own fabric . |
| 11 | If your pension is £2 a week or less , it will normally be paid once a year in arrears by a crossed order which you can pay into a bank or building society account . |
| 12 | Also exposed are 2Mb of RAM attached to the motherboard , three SIMM expansion slots which you can expand to a maximum of 14Mb , and a 40Mb Seagate hard drive . |
| 13 | They think it is a geometry exercise and some of them will produce accurate classical descriptions which you can acknowledge with a nod . |
| 14 | The album is remarkably well-packaged , complete with a gatefold lyric sheet which you can convert into a poetry pamphlet , while the music is diverse and includes a radical re-working of the ‘ Batman ’ theme , some beat poetry and Aeroplanesque R&B . |
| 15 | The problem comes when you meet a horizontal nogging — the positions of which you can determine with a joist and batten detector . |
| 16 | The result is a database on which you can search for a favourite author or publisher , or search for packages that give you the required level of coverage of particular elements ( or units ) of competence . |
| 17 | You also need brushes which you can buy from a hardware store . |
| 18 | Lewis had his two slender volumes of verse , and Tolkien his learned edition of Sir Gawain and the Green knight and his article on Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meith-had ( which combines deep linguistic learning with a justly famous account of the world of this West Midland prose writer which we can recognize as a foretaste of the Hobbit 's native Shire ) . |
| 19 | ‘ There are areas in which we can act as a sounding board in general business issues and where the accountant ca n't ’ said . |
| 20 | So sociologists can be stimulated by everyday occurrences which they , because of their training , can see from a special perspective and which they can put into a sociological frame of reference . |
| 21 | Erm and his purpose in emphasising this very traditional notion of dominion erm was of course , well was amongst other things , erm to make the point that individuals have no right of property which they can maintain against a government . |
| 22 | Third , the state has its own historically developed ‘ interests ’ which it can express to a greater or lesser degree depending on the balance of external class forces and their forms of representation within the state . |
| 23 | In uncluttered water , these discharges create a symmetrical electric field around the fish which it can sense with a series of receptors in its skin . |
| 24 | And nothing you can learn from a book compares with what you can acquire through practical experience . |
| 25 | a celestial policeman ; 2. an absentee landlord ; 3. a magician ; 4. a being greater than anything we can possibly think of ; 5. an old man on a cloud ; 6. light which gives life ; 7. the conclusion of a mathematical theorem ; 8. the chairman of a rather boring harp-playing assembly ; 9. a presence who is loving and just ; 10. a crutch for people who ca n't cope ; 11. an all-powerful dictator ; 12. a character in a fairy-story ; 13. a power that is either evil or indifferent to suffering ; 14. a heavenly Santa Claus ; 15. a king who is just and holy ; 16. electricity which is invisible and powerful , useful but dangerous ; 17. a slot-machine whom you can approach with a coin and get out what you want ; 18. the ground without which nothing in this world could exist . |
| 26 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
| 27 | And there 's a couple of blokes I need to talk to , old mates who I can trust for a good turn , if and when I hear that you need it . |
| 28 | I mean , I 've had totally everything you can get from a court . |
| 29 | Diana 's reaction to the tragedy teaches her she can cope with a crisis and take control . |
| 30 | I mean they they can change in a year . |