Example sentences of "[adv] we can have [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah , cos I think Ann 's been two courses now and we 've picked her brains so we can have basic use , but er you start to realise it 's only a little bit of the system you know , you could do a lot more |
| 2 | I mean we , we keep telling the old man to book the weekend holiday so we can have outrageous parties and things like that . |
| 3 | ‘ Somewhere we can have running water while we chat ? ’ |
| 4 | Erm and then we can have one of these each . |
| 5 | And once we 've exchanged contracts then we can have this solicitor 's letter for this fifteen hundred pound to go ahead and all this that and the other . |
| 6 | These big investors are putting a bold face on it and saying ‘ I wish the small investors would walk away , as then we can have more . ’ |
| 7 | All this , I argued , is at least suggestive about how we can have some form of access to the superficial form , say of our walking ( i.e. to the gross sequence of movements , if not to the nerves ) , and can impose a new walking ‘ strategy ’ to which we will then in due course ( after an analogue of compilation ) again lose access . |
| 8 | And I take this opportunity to say that , erm , I had , I moved this at budget revue , and my intention was to move erm , pretty much the wording that Mr moved at property , but I was unable to obtain that wording by the time of the meeting , so I put this forward , erm , knowing that it obviously was different words , but but with that same sense , that we do have to address some very real issues about County Farms and not to pussyfoot about it I think that er , any comparison between the County Farms and a commercial enterprise is a coincidence of terms , but I ca n't see how we can have forty million pounds worth of estate , as it 's valued on the free market , to be making two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds a year out of it , and think that that is commercial . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |