Example sentences of "[pron] can [verb] [is] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can do is sit in the front and wait till I see Tod Richardson . |
| 2 | All that I can do is to agree with my hon. Friend the Minister about the regulations and add some comments . |
| 3 | All I can do is land on all your . |
| 4 | " Because all I can do is to pray to the spirits of our ancestors for forgiveness . " |
| 5 | All I can do is lie in bed , listening to the howling wind and staring at the grey northern sky . |
| 6 | ‘ At the time I wanted to weep or murder somebody , but now — ’ he shrugged pragmatic shoulders ‘ — all I can do is wait for the next time . ’ |
| 7 | I just do n't know what 's going on , all I can do is wait by the phone and hope I hear something |
| 8 | Your balls are well separated , I mean , the best I can do is take off the yellow , then I can make the . |
| 9 | Now we committee erm with the resignation of Joan as ticket and subscription secretary , so all I can do is ask for any nominations from the floor , please or any volunteer who would like to follow Joan . |
| 10 | The on the only thing I can remember is running after the car . |
| 11 | Here I am , yours for the asking ; talented , handsome , lovable and affectionate , and all you can do is gawk at a couple of brainless broads . " |
| 12 | ‘ The least you can do is talk to John . |
| 13 | But the one thing you can do is to think like us . |
| 14 | Elaine England , senior training analyst at Lloyds Bank says : ‘ The worst thing you can do is fall in love with the gadgets and technology . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The biggest mistake you can make is to go to someone who 's just separated and say , ‘ I 'm glad you left him or her . |
| 16 | It will be quite hard as well cos say something 's coming up behind you , the only way you can see is to go like that . |
| 17 | But these are no reasons for not looking through the accounts , and making sure that all we can give is turned to real advantage . |
| 18 | What we can do is think about the meaning of play and fantasy , and the repercussions of denying a child the sort of toys and television-watching that is allowed to almost every other child . |
| 19 | ‘ Then all we can do is act like civilised adults and agree to differ , ’ she said , hearing herself sound like an agony aunt trotting out hackneyed advice . |
| 20 | Right , erm , ah , I think the best thing we can do is to look at the rate book for this question because you may have remembered it from er , you may not . |
| 21 | All we can do is accept with deceitful grace . |
| 22 | Basically everything we all agree at the Institute the question of improving the lot of the Third World is the responsibility of Third Worlders , and in fact a number of us would add that in very many cases , certainly not in all , it would not be achieved through slow incremental technical change , but would require in some cases very major social structural changes that in some cases erm will only be brought about very major social upheaval erm and there all we can do is add to perhaps the element of increasing consciousness and awareness of the problems , which furthermore is a two way street , I mean when we have this study activities we learn as much from the people who attend the seminars as we tell them . |
| 23 | All we can do is wait for it to pass through . |
| 24 | Now , all we can do is wait for his report and get on with more work . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We no longer live in a society which we can claim is founded on Christian belief , ’ said one , favouring instead an education which teaches children to accept people have fundamentally different beliefs which are neither wrong nor right . |
| 26 | Well the only way we can see is to turn to the , to the physicists and the computer experts and to remove the chemical steps from our analytical scheme and use the speed and precision of the newer types of maschotrometer We already use auto-samplers for gas chromatography but now we need to bypass chemical steps . |
| 27 | The amount of information we can derive is increased by certain factors : the tendency of language to use certain sequences of sounds and not others , familiar sequences of words , systematic syntactic rules and the frame of expectation which surround an utterance . |
| 28 | As none of us can ever get outside logocentrism ( its power over our habits of thought and over our language is so pervasive ) , the most that one can do is work against them from within in this sort of way . |
| 29 | Since the Ministers presenting this legislation hardly ever travel by bus , the least they can do is to listen to those who do so daily . |
| 30 | In the past , they had a handsome lifestyle , but few of them have new projects to pursue ; all they can do is sit on their hands , rueing the day they paid so much for the land they were keen to build on . |