Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [conj] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can and do , ’ she responded shakily . |
| 2 | You know as quick as you can but do it as neat as you can . |
| 3 | However , this only happens if your debtor wants to defend the action or makes you an offer which you can and do refuse . |
| 4 | Against this interpretation lies the evidence that we can and do say , when appropriate , things like ‘ Of course he consented to the operation , but that does not entitle you to perform it since he is just a child ’ ( or he did not know how dangerous it is ) . |
| 5 | Thus , concludes Popper , although we can never attain to Ultimate Truth , we can and do continually get nearer to it … |
| 6 | We are committed to making any changes that may be required to ensure that we can and do regulate effectively . |
| 7 | If we do not know what we believe and can not agree on what we believe , then is it not better to wait until we can and do . |
| 8 | We can and do make use of all kinds of resources in our own ways : we learn how to draw stickmen and produce our own graphics , we write and record our own audio dialogues , some institutions produce the bulk of their own print materials . |
| 9 | We can and do sometimes charge for this time , but where there are significant PR benefits for the Garden and its activities , and companies are not willing to pay , we do not charge . |
| 10 | Do we chase the free range hens and find the eggs as best we can or do we put the hens into a battery ? |
| 11 | It is not the case that we can or do simply distinguish , in a completely neutral way , some major historical types of political system , even in the non-evolutionist manner that I have suggested ; for on one side , what is seen to be significant in the past is influenced by current concerns , and on the other side these concerns have , in any case , a very great practical importance and are bound to engage much of the attention of political thinkers . |
| 12 | However , in emphasising their dependence it is only too easy to diminish what they can and do contribute . |
| 13 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |
| 14 | In any attempt to assess and understand the use and function , the economic and social benefits of community languages in the restricted domains of the work place and in the public services i.e. outside the domain of the household , it seems imperative that one look at the sociolinguistic and socioeconomic profiles of the different speech communities and the uses they can and do put their languages to . |
| 15 | The better off may use some private systems from time-to-time but they are still supported by a network of public systems they can and do fall back on . |
| 16 | Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress . |
| 17 | ‘ The mind , taking no notice of itself , is deluded to think it can and doth conceive bodies … without the mind . ’ |
| 18 | It can and does change , even from year to year ; and may change appreciably from decade to decade . |
| 19 | But it can and does happen . |
| 20 | It can and does encourage your customer to pay only the oldest parts of your total debt and leave the more recent balances unpaid . |
| 21 | The Survey itself lacks the funding to underpin complete systematic re-mapping , but it can and does make use of information gained in the course of university research , in the pursuit of its refinement and maintenance of the map , and in pursuing research of strategic or economic significance . |