Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh that 's this er they want they can all have one of these . |
| 2 | Like , say they 've been out on a run and there 's a call , they say they ca n't go out because they 're not in uniform and are all sweaty ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 27 ) . |
| 3 | I 'm saying this because GCSE includes a section on improvisation , and a lot of teachers ca n't do it ; they say they ca n't do it … |
| 4 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
| 5 | And they can do maths , they just , it 's just that when you call it maths they say they ca n't do it . |
| 6 | I 've got official forms here from the tax office , I mean , they say they ca n't accept it ! |
| 7 | They say they ca n't discuss the case until the inquest is over . |
| 8 | They say they ca n't afford it , we say that we must afford it . |
| 9 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
| 10 | Regarding the diabetic specialist nurse , yes , of course we would welcome a special unit , but that does seem a bit extravagant when they say they can not find enough money for one nurse . |
| 11 | One minute they say you ca n't eat , and then they say that you can eat it ! |
| 12 | They say you ca n't teach an old dog new tricks , but I 'm living proof . |
| 13 | They might well have done of course they might have refused it 's the B B C they say you ca n't have a bottle |
| 14 | They say you can still see a gap in the treeline where the Hurricane shaved the tops off what would then have been saplings . |
| 15 | And they say I ca n't remember it just happened so quick that I ca n't remember , they have been unconscious for a , it may be just a split second , it 's affected the brain , they are concussed . |
| 16 | ‘ They realise we ca n't afford to pay contract money , ’ Lowe said . |
| 17 | Rachel 's parents say they know they ca n't stop the programme but they 'll be switching it off . |
| 18 | One highly-paid aid official admitted : ‘ We are forcing poor people at gunpoint to grow a crop which they know they can not survive on . |
| 19 | As they bargain they can now stop the drama and turn ( out of role ) to their peers and ask for help . |
| 20 | Strongly influenced by their worldwide sales to date of over 60 million ‘ Walkman ’ products , they believe they can similarly capture a huge mass market for personal , on-the-move , multimedia information and games . |
| 21 | Only it may feel like such a disaster that , that they feel they ca n't do anything about it , er but you 're saying that that is n't , is n't necessarily the case ? |
| 22 | They they feel they ca n't keep to a timetable for that reason . |
| 23 | He tries to persuade the children to talk to him about the things they feel they ca n't discuss with the staff . |
| 24 | ‘ If they wish to have their children privately educated and they feel they ca n't afford it , when the time comes they can talk to the benevolent fund , ’ he said . |
| 25 | In the US , for instance , the cost of supporting a child to the age of 18 — excluding college fees — is over $100,000 and 50% of American women using contraception are doing so because they feel they ca n't afford another child . |
| 26 | England are at present near the top of the rugby world , but if they feel they can not keep finding a world-beating XV from 24 of 26 clubs in their top two leagues , my heart bleeds for them . |
| 27 | Career women , especially those who are more successful than their partners , are sometimes weary because they feel they can not escape from competitiveness and aggression . |
| 28 | Medicine , a respected and lucrative profession in Germany as elsewhere , is the discipline that is most oversubscribed , and medical academics are forced to take on far more students than they feel they can reasonably teach . |
| 29 | They would perhaps like to buy it , but they ca n't sell their property and also if they can sell theirs and they look at the cost of the property and they work out how much they 've got to pay for the mortgage then they find they ca n't afford it . |
| 30 | When they start to unpack , they find they ca n't get the cellar door open . |