Example sentences of "as you can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As you can doubtless see , I 'm in the middle of decorating , or rather I was when you barged in and interrupted me . |
| 2 | ‘ This is one I used to try to read to him last year , but ’ — her voice sounded almost shy — ‘ I ai n't too hot a reader myself , as you can probably guess . |
| 3 | As you can probably guess from the title , this product is only compatible with Windows version 3.0 or higher . |
| 4 | As you can probably tell from my figure , ’ and she looked at her plump legs with satisfaction , ‘ I like my food ! ’ |
| 5 | Our total budget for ethnic arts is in the region of about fifteen hundred pounds which , as you can probably appreciate in a region representing four million people , does not all us very much flexibility , but we also feel that it 's the type of event which we are prepared to support , which is also important . |
| 6 | yes and everybody not too happy as you can probably imagine erm Peter erm while we were talking to Paul Simpson , in fact Brian Horton was holding his press conference and I think he said the same as everybody else ; ‘ Bolder the opposition goalkeeper had an inspired game , but really United had the chances and the possession , and really everything to kill Charlton off long before half time and really put no pressure on themselves in the second half . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It is very difficult , as you can well imagine , for a parent to exercise proper control over the friendships of a daughter who insists on following a career . |
| 8 | Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road . |
| 9 | The apartments are set back from the busy main drag , in their own attractive gardens — a real bonus , as you can either come back in the afternoon for an uninterrupted snooze , or enjoy the hustle and bustle of one of Corfu 's most popular resorts . |
| 10 | Although many of the massage techniques in this illustrated guide are for two people to practise on each other , as you can clearly see from the simple techniques over the page , massage is something that you can successfully achieve alone . |
| 11 | Specify as much as you can reasonably afford to use for a cache bearing in mind any programs you may use that require expanded RAM . |
| 12 | If you are using a lot of abbreviations in a document keep a note of them beside the keyboard as you can easily produce a lot of nonsense if you accidentally use the wrong abbreviation . |
| 13 | It is always much more difficult to produce a lovely picture that contains only one type of flower , such as a bunch of freesias , as you can only use one flower shape , although you will be able to press the flowers in various ways — for example , side views , full views , with buds and without . |
| 14 | If you are lucky enough to own any old sepia family photographs , it can look extremely attractive to arrange a collection of them on a wall , as you can then give them all co-ordinating mounts that are decorated with your favourite pressed flowers , or perhaps choose some flowers that are appropriate to the family . |
| 15 | This is the most interesting way as you can then follow through the complete life-cycle of the butterfly . |
| 16 | Better still , do not touch any plants growing wild but instead grow some in your garden , as you can then pick as many pieces from them as you like . |
| 17 | As you can perhaps appreciate , this rather took the edge off my initial delight . |
| 18 | Oh that copper , he said he , he said the thing is he said what you 've got ta do is give him as much shit and aggravation as you can possibly give him , keep him hot and keep him roasted up he said because what happens is he 's getting along , long and he 's thinking oh I can do this and I can do that and I can do the other , he said but if you can get your solicitor to keep him on his toes he ai n't got time to think about nothing , he said and if he has done that job himself , he 's laughing at the moment , I said well he must have done it |
| 19 | If you have tried sprinkling it on breakfast cereal and weighed the quantity , you will have discovered that you get a large volume for a quarter of an ounce — just about as much as you can palatably add to a single portion of breakfast cereal , without beginning to think that you are eating a bowl of sawdust ! |