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Example sentences of "we can [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	But as far as we can tell he does n't seem to have any brain damage . ’
2	Apart from that , there 's nothing we can tell you to make you safe . ’
3	He lives for us , we can feel him kicking inside the idea 's belly , because the bridge-builder who does no bridge-building is vitalized by the nobody to be and nowhere to go of Dostoevsky 's inexhaustible inventive fascination .
4	History , for Nicol , is not the simple matter that it seems for Crichton-Smith , ‘ because afterwards is where we live , where we can resolve what happened , according to one , according to another ’ .
5	We can give you transport liability at , what level 's that ?
6	Then when we can choose you know ?
7	Oh well Derek , there 's a chance still mate , if we can stop them pegging but I think the chances of stopping them pegging three is a bit remote !
8	So we thought , No if we can stop them to speak to them cos at the end of the day we ca n't actually stop them going up , we can give them as much harassment as we can yes er and keep within the law .
9	‘ Maybe we can stop her hurting herself . ’
10	I 'm hoping in some way we can stop it happening again .
11	Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing .
12	Oh when daddy 's finished we can go you went to see your film now you 've got to let daddy watch his .
13	But maybe it would be better , son , if you put your basket on the counter , and then we can watch it slide along to the cash-register . ’
14	‘ Tickets for the concert evening at the King 's Hall will be going on sale soon and we can expect them to go like hot cakes .
15	‘ With her background it 'll be referred to Special Branch and Five … and that fiddled telephone … and Praeger without any background — we should have left his wallet , but they 'll trace something about him anyway — and then we can admit we went to see her — once — and what we talked about and there we are . ’
16	" We are always looking for new ideas on planting and design to see if we can vary them to suit our garden . "
17	It is clearly under voluntary control : we can decide who to listen to in a crowded room and who to shut out .
18	Every aspect of the trip is analysed to see Where we went wrong and how we can prevent it happening next time .
19	The main point is that we can do nothing to change matters .
20	I have noticed that even people who claim that everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road .
21	We just hope in terms of you know , the latest and the newest Oxfordshire team , that we can do something to bring home to the people here .
22	We ca n't get rid of the horror and the fears , but we can do something to increase our competence in dealing with it and facing it , which I think is a healthier way than freezing , flying away from it , or fighting it .
23	A spokesman for Telecom Eireann said : ‘ The law does not provide that we can do anything to stop this .
24	we can do she put an ice cube on the splodge let it melt and when it drys out the carpet comes up again but I do n't know if it 'll work but it ca n't do any harm , can it ?
25	All we can do I think is resist this strongly and the whole idea for reorganization particularly this time .
26	And we just went up you know just the two of us asks is there anything we can do you know sort of was as simple as that really and it just er grew from that .
27	All we can do it seems is to keep on applying pressure in the hope the Government will have change of heart , ’ he said .
28	We ca n't give her what she really wants , poor girl , but at least we can make her look pretty .
29	But we can make her look part of the magic theme .
30	‘ Anyhow , ’ Sendei continued , ‘ while we 've got this we can make him do pretty much what we want . ’