Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pers pn] can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a whiff of the smell you can plainly tell |
| 2 | On the field you can not fail to notice him . |
| 3 | As with replacements , there would be a maximum number allowed and , unlike rugby league , once a player has left the field he can not return . |
| 4 | Everybody hates a bad leaver but , whereas in the West you can usually close the door on a guest who has finally reached the garden gate , in the islands it is impolite to stop waving and chanting until he is either round a corner and out of sight , or else too distant to be able to see the whites of his eyes . |
| 5 | Mr. Jeffreys contended that on a fair reading of the subsection it can not have been the intention that every one of an owner 's rights had to be assumed by the alleged thief before an appropriation was proved and that essential ingredient of the offence of theft established . |
| 6 | ‘ If we climb high on the rock we can then drop to flatter ice . ’ |
| 7 | In The Prelude we can easily detect a similar pattern imposed upon experience , though Wordsworth is describing a poetic rather than a Christian vocation ; and though he may appear to use religious vocabulary ( see again the discussion on pages 89–91 ) , he is expounding a secular philosophy . |
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| 9 | Whatever the result you can not fire the cannon this turn when it MISFIRES . |
| 10 | In all my years at the club I can not remember such a sensational line up of prizes as are on offer here . |
| 11 | By contrast , whenever you have dealings with someone over the telephone you can not see them . |
| 12 | As for the speed of the machine I can not comment as lack of time with the machine did not allow us to perform our usual tests . |
| 13 | To the player it is all too real and even from the prime position in the middle of the fairway he can barely pick out the top of the flag amid the brightly-coloured hues of the spectators . |
| 14 | With the symmetry of the rest of the geometry we can only assume this to be from choice rather than from the limitations of the designers ' technology . |
| 15 | When we reach the village we can not find the dispensary . |
| 16 | Once we 've actually written the session we can then deliver it and the delivery is generally much more effective if we 've put together material which suits their needs perfectly . |
| 17 | What sort of twisted thoughts went through my father 's brain at the time to make him choose such a name for the child I can not start to imagine , but that was the name Angus chose for his new son . |
| 18 | By alternating the process you can then bring them back to complete the song . |
| 19 | We can pick out a vehicle from a line of vehicles and check the speed on that which at the moment we can not do . |
| 20 | At the moment we can not make precise predictions about the level and type of demand , but we do know that the number of places in residential and nursing home care has declined in the past year . |
| 21 | For the moment we can only piece together fragments of evidence . |
| 22 | ‘ At the moment we can only tell them apart by taking a sneaky look at the name-tags in their jumpers . |
| 23 | ‘ There must be something radically wrong with the play if it pleases everybody , ’ he wrote , ‘ but at the moment I can not find what it is . ’ |
| 24 | I have added the Constable , but at the moment I can not buy anything . |
| 25 | At the moment I can never get voted out of it you know . |
| 26 | At the moment I can only take the family thing so far : I can talk about certain things , but then everything becomes a blank because I still feel too close to it all . |
| 27 | ‘ At the moment he can still manage to live alone — though there is a risk … |
| 28 | For what really becomes clear , as we review these effective categorizations , with all their problems and loose ends , is that the move away from the ‘ sociological ’ is precisely the move we can not make . |
| 29 | Perched on the arête you can now savour the position — the exposure is out of all proportion to the route 's meagre size — before the next exhilarating section leads to an abrupt finish on the flat top of the buttress . |
| 30 | Oh no , I mean the these were clients and they could never be friends after doing that I 've come to the conclusion you can either keep your money or you can keep your friends , but you 're not going to do both . |