Example sentences of "can do [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If there 's nothing wrong with your curtains except that you 've grown rather bored with them there 's quite a lot you can do to give them a new lease of life . |
| 32 | But notice that in order to respond effectively the defender must now twist all the way back , because sideways-on there is little he can do to score . |
| 33 | In times of political crisis and upheaval , political and governmental practice ( what " really " happens ) and established constitutional theory ( what the authorities say should happen ) are likely to be out of step and there are severe limits as to what the constitutional theorists can do to shape behaviour . |
| 34 | Existing technology is less advanced … but there is a great deal we can do within the limits of existing technology — and more we can do to spur technological advance . ’ |
| 35 | This time it comes from God 's own lips , the crime of Hophni and Phinehas is declared to be blasphemy , Eli is condemned for not restraining them , and the speech ends with a divine oath making it irrevocably clear that there is nothing these three priests can do to ward off the coming disaster . |
| 36 | We I think you know we can do go into just four four people . |
| 37 | If I can do go |
| 38 | The publisher might refuse and there is little IRS can do to force that publisher to help the band . |
| 39 | ‘ Then as long as that 's quite clear I 'll see what I can do to plan out a program for you . |
| 40 | Is there anything I can do to press charges against these men ? |
| 41 | Beds can also be supplied ‘ in the raw ’ for decorative painting , which the shop can do to order . |
| 42 | There is very little else we can do to mark time , apart from invent an idiosyncratic hesitation noise — which is not uncommon , incidentally . |
| 43 | Meanhwile Henry Skelton 's mother believes there 's very little the university authorities can do to deal with drug-taking |
| 44 | It may also provide key lessons in what firms can do to use technology more effectively . |
| 45 | He 's sort of saying , he 's justifying it in , in a very Marxist way , he said this is our duty , what we 're doing is , is , is natural , it 's a process of , of his history you know that there 's nothing we can do avoid this and we should in fact be pleased to see th th this actually taking place , it 's er it 's not a question at all of , of the parents going , peasants going too far , it 's not er a reign of terror at all , erm in fact more than that it , it 's a sort of erm it , it 's not even retribution i it 's a , it 's a course of history . |
| 46 | So let's have a look at what you can do to remedy the situation . |
| 47 | Despite voices to the contrary , our standard of play at club level is not that high , and anything we can do to improve it or make it more appealing should be done . |
| 48 | Peeling potatoes and worrying how best to retain their vitamin C , Scarlet has plenty of time to worry about other things , such as why she is so much more timid than her best friend Constance and what she can do to improve relations between her dour , monotonic husband and Camille , her daughter from her first marriage . |
| 49 | Is there anything I can do to improve this other than fitting an overdrive ? |
| 50 | Many times the chub take slugs so viciously they rip them clean off the hook , and the only thing you can do to improve matters is to thread the line through the full length of the slug with a baiting needle , attach the hook and pull it back so that one end of the slug is lying in the bend of the hook . |
| 51 | Trichologist Glenn Lyons from the Philip Kingsley Trichological Clinic will join Charles to talk about specific hair and scalp problems , and what you can do to improve the health of your hair . |
| 52 | I hope to show you that there are things you can do to improve your frame of mind ; and that this is a necessary preliminary to engaging with change , whether by promoting , implementing or opposing it , in an intelligent and powerful way . |
| 53 | As all of us spend time in groups we should ask what we can do to improve group effectiveness . |
| 54 | Is there anything I mean I think I know the answer to the question , but is there anything we can do to improve the language that 's uttered in our church ? |
| 55 | If you are not sure what goes with what or even which colours you feel comfortable with there are several things you can do to improve your confidence . |
| 56 | ‘ I do n't know what I can do to improve my security , it 's already 100 per cent . |
| 57 | Ask yourself what you can do to ease their burdens ? |
| 58 | But there is a great deal you can do to ease your misery , alleviate the worst of the symptoms and let you join in most of the fine weather fun without spending your days in a darkened room with a crate of Kleenex . |
| 59 | In response to the burglary my reaction became : ‘ Actually when I think about it and allow all the facts to sink in it is just too awful ; there really is nothing I can do to pretend this has n't happened . |
| 60 | GUSHIEST COMMENT : ‘ The greatest thing you can do do when you love somebody is to make another human being . ’ |