Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | out of the balcony and he starts singing I can see Keilly |
| 2 | Once your program has STOPped you can investigate the values of the variables to find out why things happened the way they did . |
| 3 | mm and when she starts eating she can eat |
| 4 | He has said he can recognize the man , and is coming here tonight to make the assay . |
| 5 | Erm what 's the other thing , Yeah the place that I 've just picked up erm a part time job , has said I can record as much as I want there . |
| 6 | Gav has said I can use the listserver if I want . |
| 7 | Her latest film , A League Of Their Own , has shown she can develop a career as a real actress . |
| 8 | He reckons the bank has shown it can attract personal savings from building societies and is confident the new NatWest Life company , a joint venture with Clerical Medical , will reap rewards . |
| 9 | Since recessive threats to the money markets occurred in the ‘ big bangs ’ of the 1980s , the enterprise culture has shown it can remove jobs as quickly as it creates them . |
| 10 | China has ambitious plans in space technology — and it has shown it can launch nuclear warheads . |
| 11 | Eurotunnel co-chairman Alastair Morton has a difficult job on his hands but he has shown he can handle it . |
| 12 | ‘ The person in question has proved his powers of leadership , he is a firm favourite with the supporters , and he has shown he can handle the media . |
| 13 | ‘ The problem is that once you make a mistake in deciding the child needs testing it can set up a chain of events that can lead to severe problems for the child , ’ he says . |
| 14 | And erm and she says you know well she just has to do what she has to do he can go to school and but she 'll just have to make do on you know , what money she has . |
| 15 | But Patrick has proved he can break away from his Mr Menacing image . |
| 16 | In John Major we have a Prime Minister who has proved he can handle difficult international situations , in the Gulf and at Maastricht . |
| 17 | He says that the technique has meant they can speed up research time , helping to stay ahead of the field . |
| 18 | The ERM is just the sort of orthodoxy from which Mr Major has learnt he can escape . |
| 19 | I showed it Tom next door , I says er , it , I says , he came and had a drink and to , and to see Evelyn and I says look you can tell Oliand and Dog Tongue |
| 20 | It 'll be a few days before the 70 year old grand dame of the railways moves under her own steam , first there are boiler inspections and checks to prove she can clear every bridge on the Toddington track . |
| 21 | A lot of pubs and hotels will do the the their places out in these narrow sections so if one gets worn they can lift it up and |
| 22 | ‘ Everybody in this town , including the stuffed seagull shop , seems to reckon they can sell books , ’ said a disgruntled Mr Coward . |
| 23 | At the end of the day though , the championship I think , tells you who is the best team of any one year and erm that 's the professional 's choice I think , if you said at the start of the year which = trophy we 'd like to win , we would have said the championship , erm we were top I think after two games and we fell away a bit since but erm the time to be tops after twenty two , so lets hope we can get up there . |
| 24 | For Marxists , too , as an area becomes developed it can acquire characteristics which make it less attractive to capitalist production . |
| 25 | This fear of cats , or ailurophobia to give it its technical name , is rare , but when it does occur it can cause untold misery for the sufferer and it is worth examining how it begins and how it can be cured . |
| 26 | If someone goes away on holiday , you may well give the key to a neighbour , they probably know a relative of yours or somebody like that that if anything does happen they can contact you or your relative to come down and check the house over . |
| 27 | The colours of the countryside as we pass are English colours , greens , golds , the high washed blue bag sky , but as my eyes become adjusted and my mind learns to relax I can see them change and become , in the blue grey light , more obviously French . |
| 28 | She 's married now and lives Mildenhall way and she likes to think we can ring her if we want her . |
| 29 | And she said well our mother 's said you can have hers . |
| 30 | I 've talked to Arthur about it , he 's agreed we can put it on pallets . |