Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] can [adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God help me , I hope I still do ’ — she clicked off the light — ’ where I can still find it . |
| 2 | where you can just pull it in . |
| 3 | You 'll want somewhere where you can either have it hanging |
| 4 | As the ioniser may soil surfaces , put it where you can easily reach it . |
| 5 | Whatever the outcome , this is one play where you can truly say it is n't over till the fat lady ( or in this case , the fat man ) sings . |
| 6 | Spend a , a minute or so , putting your thoughts together , you can write it out if you want to , or you can just give you bullet points , what you 've chosen you 're going to change into a feature . |
| 7 | Or you can simply slide it onto the line through a hole that runs through the centre of the ‘ feeder . |
| 8 | Put the rest of them , I mean , i , i , i , in the storage binder or you know , or you can obviously put them in the active binder if you want to do . |
| 9 | where we can just have it on all the time . |
| 10 | Erm so really you tell me which jobs you 're gon na send reports out on , a and erm that you would like that particular field sorting out , and I will get Ken and Amanda and Kerry to er t to get something in there , so that when you pull it off erm you 're happy with it or we can then edit it . |
| 11 | There are two things we can do with hair on the upper lip , we can either bleach it so that it does n't notice , or we can actually remove it with wax , or we can have electrolysis . |
| 12 | Yeah so that I can either have it up or down really . |
| 13 | John wrote at length to Hanns about colour , shapes and general effect desirable , and asked him to ‘ do a few rough sketches and send them to me to give to Cecily ; number them so that I can just send you back a telegram saying ‘ Do number three ’ say , unless there is more to be said . ’ |
| 14 | Erm , quite a lot off the top you know so that I can just brush it up |
| 15 | There is no immediate prospect that I can ever have her back , but I would like to keep the door open for that . |
| 16 | It 's just that I can actually hear it . |
| 17 | She somehow manages to put invitations so cleverly that I can hardly refuse them — will I advise her about a job move , will I try out a new restaurant with her before she entertains a client there ? |
| 18 | ‘ But if that had been somebody else doing that to you … ’ she says softly , so that I can hardly hear her over the quiet thunder of the shower . |
| 19 | I 'm sure , rationally , that what happened next actually did happen , but when I write it down , even now after all this time , it seems so amazing to me that I can hardly believe it was true . |
| 20 | Wedged so tight against the bottom of the last page that I can hardly read it are four handwritten words that make my heart leap : ‘ Yours sincerely , Elizabeth Serafin' . |
| 21 | You will understand that I can only employ you meantime in the capacity of reader , till all this notoriety has died down . |
| 22 | Still , I 'm no fool ; a chance like this does n't come along every day , so I can hardly pass it up . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's like a man takes you out for a meal and he 's thinking , ‘ I let her have an horsd'oeuvre , so I can definitely ask her to wear the handcuffs later on . ' ’ |
| 24 | The Stadium power amp does n't colour the sound of the A2 at all , so I can fully recommend it . |
| 25 | In cases where a covenant must be imposed to observe existing restrictions , on behalf of a buyer always insert in the covenant such words as " so far as the same affect the property hereby conveyed and are subsisting and capable of being enforced " , because for one reason or another the odds are ten to one that nobody can legally enforce them ; but the case might be otherwise if you impose the restrictions afresh . |
| 26 | 30Hz is well into sub-harmonic ( and potentially hazardous to health ) territory ; below 20Hz means you ca n't hear the sound that is rearranging your molecular structure , although you can sure feel it . |
| 27 | She had always been quite dependent on Keith , which was why he got away with such a lot , but eventually she has grown more confident , and believes that she can now make it on her own . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been so unnaturally virtuous lately that you can surely grant me two kisses in one day ! ’ |
| 29 | You think at first that you have no choice , that it 's not up to you to decide on things like boyfriends — he 's sexy or he 's ugly — that you can just forget it . |
| 30 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |