Example sentences of "[coord] can [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | decide whether or not they really need to be on that site for fourteen hours or can they do what they need to do in four ? |
| 2 | ‘ That young woman — was that on live , or can we cut it ? ’ |
| 3 | Or can we call it totally de-recognition ? |
| 4 | The absence of guys with the authority to tell people to either go-ahead with their plans or can them means nothing much is getting approved . |
| 5 | This document is nice and clear plain English , but quite frankly some of the replies and some of the er , er things understood by the public , can we ensure that we do use plain English , I 've got no criticism with this , this is okay , but when we get the replies to our customers erm that we service can we use plain English , that 's my first point , do you want to respond or can I make my second one ? |
| 6 | Do you want the money or can I pay you later ? |
| 7 | Or can I help you ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Doctor Masters , is n't it ? — or can I call you Christopher ? ’ |
| 9 | Mr Monte , or can I call you Del , why do you grow pineapples in the Philippines ? |
| 10 | Could I also add a Jack Dempsey , or can you suggest something similar ? |
| 11 | And I had three more telephone enquiries e and they were by telephone , they 're in a hurry , you know , can you do it until the fifteenth of May , or can you do it until February something . |
| 12 | Er , right , why was your dad on the front of a magazine , is it embarrassing or can you tell us ? |
| 13 | Are you ashamed of your feet or can you bare them with pride ? |
| 14 | The girls in campus , blinking heck Phil , they keep coming out in their underwear and saying , can you get me this size , or can you get me that size , you know , what am I supposed to do you know . |
| 15 | ‘ Are you happy or can you see your way to being happy ? ’ |
| 16 | You say well look I 'm gon na approach this guy what sort of business are you gon na put his way or can you put his way . |
| 17 | I said , Oh do n't bother I always I always get people ringing up saying so and so 's mother or father says or someone says you 've been teaching them and can you take me or can you take my son or daughter and it always works like that . |
| 18 | Men can not breastfeed babies , nor can they experience what it is like to have carried a child , however much their partners may have encouraged them to feel the moving infant inside the belly . |
| 19 | Nor can they do anything about his methods of selling the assets which have been charged . |
| 20 | Microcomputers can not store as much data as the larger computers nor can they process it as quickly . |
| 21 | They are not a substitute , they can not in any sense make decisions for you , nor can they guarantee your performance . |
| 22 | Nor can we measure it in the present if we regard the present as an indivisible instant that is truly momentary and without duration . |
| 23 | And the human species can not be considered to be eternal either , as we know it did not always exist in its present form , nor can we expect it to have an infinite existence . |
| 24 | Nor can we see our social security or employment records . |
| 25 | Nor can we know what Jesus was like , what he said and did by consulting the secular historians of the time . |
| 26 | erm And if you look at the second line , and begin three words in , it says ‘ the mistress , ’ the mistress is abbreviated , ‘ answers her man can not work , nor can she spare him till she be paid for what her husband did for the King 's soldiers ’ . |
| 27 | something to be dropped on from a great height as frequently as possible er particularly if it 's the G L C. In the United States , however much the federal government is irritated by the state government , it can not attack its constitutional powers nor can it undermine its financial base so that 's a different relationship , it 's a relationship based , not on dominance , but on partnership and there has to be an understanding , a trade off between federal and er a and state government . |
| 28 | Figure 6.2 The stream pattern shown in Figure 6.1 is subject to two constraints : a stream can not flow backwards , nor can it join itself . |
| 29 | For those sixty seconds you are not a legitimate target , nor can you fire your own weapon . |
| 30 | I can not make my players sing any anthem in their rooms , nor can I stop them . ’ |