Example sentences of "can [verb] [pron] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Them Brits can 'ear us comin' a mile off what with your stampin' and clackin' and oléin' . |
| 2 | You ca n't stop plaque forming but you can prevent it taking a hold by removing it every day . |
| 3 | That done , he can busy himself getting the Uruguay round 's warring parties back to the negotiating table . |
| 4 | You can feel it bursting the shell . |
| 5 | Yes my aunt was Mrs David , and goodness me I can remember her having the laces pulled in . |
| 6 | Well I can mind us making a wreath at school when Miriam died , that was the only only body I ever remember dying when I was at school . |
| 7 | I can see him playing an anchor role in midfield . |
| 8 | You can see them burning the forests down " . |
| 9 | I says , Oh , alright then , I said I can see everyone checking the er basins in the big oven , my duck . |
| 10 | My own health is suffering and my daughter tells me to stop but I can see it causing a family row . |
| 11 | I can see it solving a few problems here . |
| 12 | By the way if your system date and time is wrong you can correct them using the MS-DOS commands DATE , and TIME . |
| 13 | I can hear them telling the architect not to spare a single sou . |
| 14 | I can hear her putting the question in the room behind me . |
| 15 | I like them , they 've brought us central heating an' that , but we do n't want all these roads cutting into the green belt ; and you ca n't sneak up on anybody now when they can hear you coming a mile off . |
| 16 | ‘ You can call it jumping the queue , ’ said Mr Duff . |
| 17 | Why then do they think it is so bad for parents and only those who can afford it paying a little extra to ensure their children get a well-funded education ? |
| 18 | I can imagine him making the statement , but I ca n't imagine that he meant it sufficiently to make it worth printing . |
| 19 | Thus , the ‘ humanitarianism ’ that informs his programme is also derived from selfish , rational motives ; it stems from the fact that , since we can imagine ourselves breaking the contract , we can also imagine ourselves being the objects of punishment . |
| 20 | You can find yourself facing a much larger debt if the pound has weakened against that foreign currency in the interim . |
| 21 | After you 've loaded your network drivers ( which are memory hungry ) , ANSI.SYS , SMARTDRV.SYS , RAMDRV.SYS , MOUSE.COM , EGA.SYS , EMM386.EXE , CD ROM drivers , Sound card drivers and a few other bits and bobs , not to mention your memory resident anti-virus software , you can find yourself getting the ‘ not enough memory to run xxxxxx.exe ’ rather more often than you 'd like . |
| 22 | It is in the music of his latter years that one can find him reliving an older manner that evokes the comfortable world which Humperdinck , wisely , never left . |
| 23 | If you know you have a file , but ca n't remember where it is , you can find it using the Find File option in Word for Windows . |