Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 2 | Some of them who can speak English come up to you and give you a hug and say , Thank-you , you give us life . |
| 3 | This option can accommodate package structures up to 20 levels deep , and the scrolled area can display up to 20 package names . |
| 4 | The smell of a certain aftershave can bring memories flooding back of those special times and wonderful moments . |
| 5 | If you are dieting on 1,500 calories a day , you can choose meals adding up to 1,100 calories a day . |
| 6 | Overall , we can see groups moving out from Selsey — Chichester , along the Ouse valley from Lewes and out from Hastings , in search of the more fertile areas , creating at least a parish , village and hamlet pattern that later men could build on . |
| 7 | I can see Teresa going back to Anna 's for season . |
| 8 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 9 | We can create particles made up of the other quarks ( strange , charmed , bottom , and top ) , but these all have a much greater mass and decay very rapidly into protons and neutrons . |
| 10 | Markets can take time to wake up to excesses , and in the meantime over-borrowing by one member-state could cause a lot of pain for others . |
| 11 | If it is Narouz , and the Khedive is bothered , we can tell Narouz to get out of the country quick . |
| 12 | Well let's see if we can get things quietened down for your life . |
| 13 | I mean , we can , we can start by we I mean we can get people set up for doing things from the first of March ca n't we ? |
| 14 | Moran said : ‘ Director Jack Walker 's money has enabled the manager to put down a good foundation and if we can get Roy coming in alongside the likes of Alan Shearer , the club will really be going places . ’ |
| 15 | What she is saying is that there are hundreds of millions of people out there who can let life go by without trying to relate themselves to the big issues . |
| 16 | Can I ask , I know we 've got Amanda Root here , who 's going to help us in the Health Action Area Report , I also know that she has an ailing child , can we then take the item eleven , health action areas now on page fifty-eight , so that we can let Amanda go back to her commitments . |
| 17 | Now if you 're a majority party you can instruct officers to come up with a specially paid reduction pol you pay for the policy , so you can then structure the system or look at the service and come up with a reduction , come up with an expansion |
| 18 | It has been found that regular use of some 2 in 1 's can cause ingredients to build up on the hair shaft which may affect the results of a perm or colour . |