Example sentences of "can [verb] [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and what you can do is if you 've got a |
| 2 | let me , the o the other thing we can do is if it 's broken the shop can send it back but the man , the other person pays . |
| 3 | Think the only thing you can do is as I say be honest and say that , you know , you 're very worried about your fingers |
| 4 | All I can remember is that it had nothing to do with his feet . |
| 5 | All I can remember is that I did n't much like the food , but I ate obediently and probably out of fear of giving offence . |
| 6 | Then the other argument as I can see is that they 've led me to believe , I don I know you said that it 's automatic twelve month ban , but we just accepted that because I was led to believe that my job was safe . |
| 7 | So I , I , I think that er one of the , the comforting things which er I c I can see is that she has grown in self confidence , not cockiness , self confidence . |
| 8 | In any other situation the worst thing that can occur is that nothing happens at all . |
| 9 | An example I can cite is that I asked her to research and write up ( unsupervised ) an application to the Carnegie-Mellon Foundation for the microfilming of our 100,000 items in the Archive Collection . |
| 10 | The best estimate that I can get is that it has a development value of El 5 million . |
| 11 | A problem I have which I hope you can solve is that I wish to build a ammeter to test alternator outputs . |
| 12 | No excuses , as I 've said , and the only explanation I can offer is that I thought you loved Jones . |
| 13 | All I can say is that whatever happens , I do believe in you . ’ |
| 14 | But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know . |
| 15 | All I can say is that someone hit me at about 40 or 50mph up the back as I was turning into the corner . |
| 16 | ‘ All I can say is that it has been tried and tested over many years . |
| 17 | All is can say is that I hope England get him , with any luck we 'll be saddled with a manager that appreciates Rocky 's talent . |
| 18 | All I can say is that I doubt I will be asked to join the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team . |
| 19 | All I can say is that I failed , and in this particular case I regret that failure . ’ |
| 20 | All I can say is that I did n't even know Melanie was still there that night . |
| 21 | Right , well I 've been waiting since er what is it twelve o'clock this morning , what on earth this question can be and I certainly did n't er come up with this possible , erm all I can say is that I have always got on extremely well with Tony and . |
| 22 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 23 | ‘ All I can say is that I recognise the incredible enthusiasm that there is for this sport among a section of the listening public — especially Daily Telegraph readers . |
| 24 | What you can say is that there 's been acidification . |
| 25 | Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way . |
| 26 | ‘ What no-one can deny is that I have Scottish blood in me , and I have always known it was there ’ , he said . |