Example sentences of "and [pers pn] can [verb] as " in BNC.
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1 | And I can remember as a child my mother had to go , my sister , myself , and my father . |
2 | During the period between the two wars in the twenties and thirties a quite successful team played in Halling , and I can recall as a lad spending many hours watching them . |
3 | And she can stand as an example of all my attitudes or of every other encounter with the female sex . |
4 | And she can strike as all too keen to play the introverted sensitive soul , cloaking herself in black and describing Baudelaire and Nerval , some of whose poems provide a decadent counterpoint to the Bible in her music , as ‘ blood brothers ’ . |
5 | Many observers believe that by the time he steps down in Brussels , at the end of 1992 , most small Irish farmers will have accepted his pension plan and he can return as the hero of rural Ireland . |
6 | ‘ ONE of the outstanding books of this 20 years , ’ wrote Sean O'Faolain in his review of Angus Wilson 's first collection of stories , The Wrong Set , on its appearance in 1949 : He is a satirist with a lyrical touch ; trenchant , ruthless , often very funny , sometimes very frightening ; and he can write as a duck can swim . |
7 | This can be hung on a classroom wall and it can double as a speaker for audio machines . |
8 | In particular , the Partnership can help to lever funds from other organizations into inner-city investment projects ; it can assist in the creation of innovative approaches towards inner-urban renewal ; and it can operate as a last-resort funding for worthwhile projects that would not otherwise be implemented . |