Example sentences of "we can [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Oh when daddy 's finished we can go you went to see your film now you 've got to let daddy watch his . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Our publicity leaflets and help-forms were meticulously drafted , and I think we can say they contained no ‘ empty words ’ . |
| 6 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 7 | GUIL : I think we can say we made some headway . |
| 8 | ROS : I think we can say he made us look ridiculous . |
| 9 | This proviso was fundamental , and we can find it expressed in two letters of this period on the preference to be given to the claim of monastic life over every other demand — a theme of central importance in his thought . |
| 10 | We can see what went on by looking at the volumes of the annual Report of the Association ; for instance that of 1855 , containing the proceedings of the meeting at Liverpool in September 1854 . |
| 11 | We can see who got it first |
| 12 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |