Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] can [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See when I 'm walking I can actually hear something in the back of |
| 2 | Support in court costs in respect of Sunday training , trading you can actually blame the government for that as well , for not sorting the mess out . |
| 3 | Why is it that the simple act of purchasing something can often be hell ? |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | A quietly cultivated , top-of-the-head English don , incurably in the grip of the Oxford Disease — that tragic malady which deludes its victims into believing they can never be wrong in any matter of knowledge or opinion . |
| 6 | Faulty communication patterns can be directly pointed out , and steps towards improving them can then be recommended . |
| 7 | We both have very firm views on relay racing which can never be reconciled . |
| 8 | Expanding you can always do , it 's condensing that 's tricky . |
| 9 | After a period of exposure to grazing one can then test for the frequency of the various types of damage to clover leaves with the different genotypes and afterwards reconfirm the cyanogenic or acyanogenic status of the plant ( Fig. 16.7 ) . |
| 10 | Well it may not be providing we can actually pull out some still |
| 11 | well yes I do tha you 've done this before , that this buffet thing , it 's quite nice , people can sort of like , if they 're staying they can just say y leave it out and you sa eat whenever you want to really in n it ? |
| 12 | I was saying I can virtually survive on four hours sleep , I can , at the moment . |
| 13 | By so doing they can often make modifications which buy off subsequent opposition . |
| 14 | Whatever he may think he is doing he can only be discovering , like our romantic traveller , but perhaps much less aware of what he is doing , that in the last resort his desires outweigh his fears . |
| 15 | And in so doing it can often convey that a past is not a thing to be discovered . |
| 16 | One might be doing what can also be done by whispering ‘ Do not believe what I said to George ’ ; the other might have winked to say ‘ We are being watched ’ . |
| 17 | At the edge there are usually secondary pools where hot water , up to 45 °C in some cases , will drain you away , assuming you can even get into the water . |
| 18 | Pious it may sound , but I do actually believe that there is a sense in which a group of students do collectively know much of what they need to know about learning : the problem of the PGCE year is to give them confidence that they know ; and the experience that knowing they can successfully act on their knowledge . |
| 19 | Just above T g the movement of the chain segments is still rather slow , imparting what can best be described as leathery properties to the material . |
| 20 | However , the Sports Council for Wales is taking what can only be described as a very aggressive approach to this and a number of other sensitive recreation/environment issues at present . |
| 21 | I 'm finding I can still visualise the carnage . |
| 22 | Eventually he confirmed my identification : dieffenbachia , also known as dumb cane because its sap , in contact with the mouth , causes violent irritation and swelling which can seriously impede breathing . |
| 23 | However , when the speed of the board increases to near planing speed in stronger winds , problems start arising which can ultimately lead to a capsize fall . |
| 24 | LEFT Once the dog is sitting you can then extend the leash on the ground . |
| 25 | The church of St. John the Baptist has stood on this site for at least I 200 years but at what date the Christian religion first came to Halling we can only guess . |
| 26 | The duty to a lawful visitor only extends so long as , and so far as the lawful visitor is making what can reasonably be contemplated as an ordinary and reasonable use of the premises by the lawful visitor for the purposes for which he has been invited . |
| 27 | Stone floor panels dating from 883–612BC , uncovered in the Assyrian royal palaces at Nimrud , Balawat and Nineveh , contain patterns that are generally accepted as carpet designs ; thee are also a number of reliefs and carvings showing men carrying what can only be tapestries or rugs . |
| 28 | Schools will need mechanisms for doing this ; and the level of professional understanding of the issues and the imperatives underlying them can only improve thereby . |
| 29 | right in thinking you can only have one TESSA ? |
| 30 | a blockage yeah it goes right across you , you 've got you 've got catarrh and I 'm thinking you can only have catarrh if you 've got a , you know if you had a real bad cold and or the flu or something but she said it 's all in there . |