Example sentences of "you can [verb] [pron] [adv prt] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , the following Monday I 'd like to talk to you if you can to pick her up and take her home . |
| 2 | " In a small garden , I think it 's nice to use lots so that you can move them around and build up height where you might not have any . |
| 3 | you can move them in and out of word processing ( WP ) packages so that a message received in e-mail can be incorporated into a document which you wish to send on or work on ; and , |
| 4 | in other words you can move it up and down aargh |
| 5 | you can tell them off and then this , they do n't , they do n't so many things then |
| 6 | Meet Helen , see if you like her , and then you can think it over and give me your decision later . |
| 7 | If you do n't like it you can wash it off and start again . |
| 8 | I do n't know whether you can wash it out and see if you like it . |
| 9 | Well you can drop him off and pick him up . |
| 10 | But the thing is that your er particular area you know , if you wanted to do one and not save it , you do n't have to save , you know , you know you can print it off and it 's done , but you can send mail to Tracey or headquarters C A , you would n't have to print it out once it 's what you want you just press a button and it goes . |
| 11 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 12 | If your kick is such that you can pull it back and reassume your original stance , it is too weak to score . |
| 13 | Can you help out ? he 's paying in gold and you can melt it down and make a new battleaxe that will never go rusty . |
| 14 | You can work it out and you know if you get it , even if you 're not sure of the original formula , if you get it upside down , you can look at it , this is no good . |
| 15 | If you can work it out and stand at at the door and I 'll get the register to check . |
| 16 | Elliott ( 4.3 ) : You can roll it around and fasten it . |
| 17 | Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for . |
| 18 | ‘ Within a second , you can have it back and carry on taping . ’ |
| 19 | At least with newt searching you can pick one up and share it round if you find one . |
| 20 | If you 've got a phone , whether it 's in your car , in your house , at the bottom of your garden , you can pick it up and give me a ring on . |
| 21 | A scab is something you have to put up with until the time comes when you can pick it off and flick it away . |
| 22 | Or you can pick it out and say ‘ That 's a beautiful one , is n't it , there 'll be no problem there , ’ and you look no further . |
| 23 | So , the fact that who works in the green grocers is just a bit of additional information , it 's not necessary for the the main part of the sentence , you can take it out and it 's not going to take , make any difference to the construction or the meaning of the sentence , it 's a bit of additional information . |
| 24 | ‘ As you know there are two kinds of roughing you can either put frost-nails in the shoe or you can take it off and turn the heels and the toes of the shoes up — turning 'em up , we used to call it . |
| 25 | But you can take it back and say I want my money ? |
| 26 | ‘ A badger will stand its ground so if you locate where it is you can dig it up and need only one net . ’ |
| 27 | A badger will stand its ground , so if you locate where it is you can dig it up and need only one net . ’ |
| 28 | Of all lights in the room these make the biggest difference and are a blessing since you can plug them in and put them behind plants , or in corners , or behind large pieces of furniture to give a beautiful , dramatic accent light , creating mood and interest that could never be imagined by day . |
| 29 | The hardened jumper-fiddler can do it the hard way , of course , but the software approach is by far the easiest — so you can plug it in and forget it , you wo n't need to whip it out and fiddle with it . |
| 30 | If you feel shy about breastfeeding in public , wear a loose jumper or shirt so you can push it up and tuck your baby underneath . |