Example sentences of "but you can [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll have your , tha yo jacket potato 's clean so I 'll have those as well , , but you can eat a bit more . |
| 2 | But you can bet a pound to a penny that some of the biggest showbusiness names are among their customers . |
| 3 | The telephone is n't connected yet but you can drop a note in . |
| 4 | Now the proud owner of the Chelsea House hotel overlooking the seafront in Falmouth , she says : ‘ There 's a lot of competition , but you can make a living here if you 're prepared to work hard . |
| 5 | The case does n't tell you how many weeks per year each restaurant is open , either , but you can make a reasonable guess about that , too . |
| 6 | ‘ You know , Comrade Andropov is getting ready for the Party Congress , so he can not receive you at the moment , but you can make a detailed written statement of everything , saying who it is you suspect , and so on and so forth ’ . |
| 7 | The estate agent might tell you what the seller will accept , but you can make a lower offer . |
| 8 | but you can make a bomb out of erm bleach and that |
| 9 | BUT you can renew a loan by telephone as long as nobody else wants the item . |
| 10 | The Cruz Twinkick concave [ as it 's known ] is a complex concave , and it 's not just ‘ concave ’ in profile , a very slight rise running through the length of the deck is invisible to the eye but you can feel a more comfortable footlock when you stand on it . |
| 11 | You ca n't change the past but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future . |
| 12 | It , really and truthfully , like the Headway do plenty of functions and the rest of it but you can do a better job than Headway . |
| 13 | Station cafés like the one at Temple Meads — I saw the freckly man with the ginger hair , stared him straight in the eye but he did n't recognize me — you ca n't sleep there at night , Vern said , but you can buy a coffee during the day and sit there nodding off and they think you 're just tired from travelling . |
| 14 | ‘ But you can sail a boat , ca n't you ? ’ |
| 15 | Of course you can not teach confidence but you can teach a way of acquiring it . |
| 16 | But you can find a specialist stall-holder at most antique markets . |
| 17 | Not only is there a variety of different types of investment ( see next section ) but you can obtain a personal pension from any of the following : insurance companies , banks , building societies , unit trusts and friendly societies . |
| 18 | But you can take a look at the instructions ; if you select the Reveal Codes menu option , the screen splits in two , with the formatting codes revealed in the lower screen . |
| 19 | A lot in it er but you can learn a lot from it and eventually you 'll be able to do any sort of these pie charts , if somebody says well you 've got four pound eighty to spend , and somebody spends three quarters on this and a tenths on that , two fifteenths on something else and you can add them all up and do a nice chart . |
| 20 | It is best if the sieve is flat-bottomed , but you can use a round-bottomed kitchen sieve if this is what you can get most easily . |
| 21 | But you can save a |
| 22 | Pre-cut fabric can actually be stapled to the wall and any raw edges covered with braid or trim , but you can get a much softer , more professionally upholstered look if you batten the fabric . |
| 23 | It 'll be too big for you but you can get a belt at Woolworth 's . ’ |
| 24 | But you can get a post as a medical secretary in a hospital or a G P without having your full diploma . |
| 25 | Said yes , but you can get a pushbike ! |
| 26 | You may not hear the ‘ door porter ’ through which a visitor announces his name , but you can have a peephole installed in the front door so that you can see the caller before opening the door . |
| 27 | But you can have a number of breaks in the order and in that case you get another order at a different level . |
| 28 | But you can have a fascinating time in Baden without paying too much attention to the spa . |
| 29 | There 's no erm there 's no I du n no , bit of front garden where you where you feel secure , but you can have a chat with other people , it 's it 's an isolating design . |
| 30 | He had suggested the landscaped grounds of an eighteenth-century house , noted for their expression of the picturesque : ‘ I 'm not a great one for stately homes , but you can have a good walk there . ’ |