Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 999 call can cost you |
| 2 | Following the question by the right hon. Member for Tweeddale , Ettrick and Lauderdale ( Sir D. Steel ) , is there not essentially a double standard when one delegation can bring whomsoever it likes to the talks , whether those people were born in the Soviet Union or the United States , and another delegation is told whom it can and whom it can not bring ? |
| 3 | Yes , obviously as you can imagine , everybody very buoyed up , it well , it 's like any sport , it one moment can change everybody 's outlook , everybody 's evening , everybody 's weekend , and that 's of course , that 's what 's happened here . |
| 4 | One drink can knock him galley west if he is tired . ’ |
| 5 | Experiences , mood and environment can also change the personality of an unborn child , just as the moods and attitudes of one person can affect someone else , purely by that person 's presence . |
| 6 | Juice extractors are a good idea for people living alone because they enable you just to juice one orange at a time , when you fancy some juice , whereas a litre carton may well start fermenting before one person can drink it all . |
| 7 | The fifty percent share holding has worked well , because what it means no one person can impose their will , no one has control , you have to resolve problems by agreement , resolve disagreements without coming to blows . |
| 8 | The jockey 's race never stops … never stalls … so far this season Richard Dunwoody has had three hundred and sixty nine rides … he should be celebrating his century of winners any day … only one man can catch him and stop him and that 's Peter Scudamore … at Wincanton this week the reigning champion came galloping back with a winning treble … |
| 9 | Only one man can help us . ’ |
| 10 | Theory allows that if any of the neutrinos have mass then neutrinos of one generation can find themselves turning into neutrinos of another generation . |
| 11 | The steps which will have to be taken are , in my view , so grave , that it becomes a question whether any one party can carry them through , and whether some form of Coalition Government is not imperative to meet the crisis which is rapidly developing . |