Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of new levels or stopes , which are either simply for exploration or which will not produce any ore for perhaps three years , can eat up about a third of a mine 's operating costs . |
| 2 | You can buy just about everything you ever need in Funchal , but you may have to search to find it — many shops may just recently have run out of the very product you want , so that you have to search for a shop which still has old stock until more is imported . |
| 3 | With them you can buy just about whatever your little capitalist heart desires . |
| 4 | Beware of in-laws , my father used to say , and when he 's Tuscan into the bargain I think we can expect just about anything . |
| 5 | We do some in-house , and we 've also got an outside researcher called Norman Pickering who has a home laboratory where he can do just about anything … |
| 6 | In fact you can do just about anything in Germany with a GTF Go-As-You-Please holiday . |
| 7 | With a little help from your friends and the specially adapted boats , you can do just about anything . |
| 8 | After 24 hours , fill cavities with a two-part repair material , mixing only as much as you can use in about five minutes ( less in hot weather ) |
| 9 | The cost of the service is between £300 and £500 per day , during which the team can work through about eight to 10 specimens . |
| 10 | 5 Permanent damage to a testicle ( either loss or permanent shrinkage ) can occur in about 3 of every 200 patients undergoing a hernia repair . |
| 11 | Oh , I know you think you can move just about anything there is , but I have my doubts about that . ’ |
| 12 | Cos it can take apparently about two and a half hours to get into Nottingham from erm some of those areas . |
| 13 | Where you come from can sell just about anything in the home counties . |
| 14 | People have complained — is this a health service problem ? is this a local authority problem ? and that is an acknowledgement of the fact that you can match just about anyone you can find in one service 's bed , with someone in someone else 's service 's bed . |
| 15 | The oval shaped earpieces are free to move within their stirrups to suit the wearer and the stirrups themselves can swivel through about 30 degrees laterally . |
| 16 | I 'll have words with Sharon on Monday and er , oh I ca n't , yes I can on Monday I 'm having my hair cut later , but I can come up about nine o'clock and see if she 's here . |
| 17 | I do know that street lighting is the very devil , cos it can come under about half a dozen different departments , it can come under Highways , |
| 18 | There was a problem with gilt funds about three years ago , and T S B ran up against the problem of falling gilt yields and trying to maintain the , the flow to the investor , which they did , but th they failed to tell the investor that they were having to erm sell gilts and er trade under market value , so in fact you reduce the fund , but there are halfway stages , and I mean at the moment I can get round about eight percent , plus on , on erm er offshore funds . |
| 19 | You can moor just about anywhere the bank will take an iron peg or where a mooring ring is available . |