Example sentences of "can [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm being honest er Rod if I can earn myself twenty five thirty thousand I 'm not I 'm not looking for you know fortunes . |
| 2 | A car boot sale can earn you extra cash and save you money by reducing the load your removers have to take to your new home . |
| 3 | ‘ I can earn my own money . ’ |
| 4 | RESEARCH is to be carried out in Darlington to look at how the borough council can coordinate its green policies . |
| 5 | It can hinder their proper development . |
| 6 | " It 'll warm his little heart for once , " he thought , " and if the leaders do get attacked , I suppose we can spare him easier than some . " |
| 7 | ‘ Surely you can spare me ten minutes — say a quarter of an hour ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I can spare you half an hour before my presence is called for in the refectory . |
| 9 | I can reassure my hon. Friend that nothing in the Bill will make that sort of rationalisation necessary . |
| 10 | I hope I can reassure my hon. Friends that the framework of duties within the Bill does not create such a divide . |
| 11 | " Why should I help you stuff another client , just so you can make yourself rich ? " |
| 12 | ‘ You can make yourself useful while I 'm gone ; there 's a percolator in the kitchen — I like mine strong and black . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But , until we do , you can make yourself useful by binding up this hole in my arm before I give you the pleasure of bleeding to death . ’ |
| 14 | But , in my experience , if this is the case although it is possible to plant a new church it will not happen nearly as quickly as it will do if someone can make themselves available full-time . |
| 15 | Many ailments , especially viral ones such as Fish Pox , can make themselves apparent a long time after purchase : in other words , unless you go the whole hog , like the very top Koi-keepers , quarantine is no guarantee that all will be well . |
| 16 | He 'll be happier if he can make himself useful . ’ |
| 17 | His memory scarce can make me sad … ‘ |
| 18 | and with a leprous man came over and began doing a to him saying , Lord if you just want to you can make me clean , and so stretching out his hand he touched him saying , I want to be made clean and immediately his leprosy was , vanished away , then Jesus said to him , see that you tell no one , but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses appointed for the purpose of a witness to them when he entered into Calpurnia that 's the other two , that the other |
| 19 | Yeah you can make me some , I do n't know what I , I do n't want anything but I du n no |
| 20 | Only a judge and a jury can make him guilty . |
| 21 | Come and see if you can make him calmer , please ! ’ |
| 22 | These people here can make him useful to society . ’ |
| 23 | After all , the sights about here can make one dizzy . ’ |
| 24 | They can take their minds off it , but it can make them irritable or ‘ difficult ’ . |
| 25 | On the other hand , feeding deer can make them half tame and easy to see . |
| 26 | This can make them difficult to remove from detectors with individual ‘ drop in ’ battery compartments . |
| 27 | By simplifying and emphasizing the features of major strokes we can make them easier to teach but paddle strokes are only copies of the real thing . |
| 28 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |
| 29 | But , Pascal tells us , we need to make the effort : ‘ Imagination can not make fools wise , but she can make them happy , to the envy of reason which can only make its friends miserable . ’ |
| 30 | plus something , and an seven times that one would give you minus pass onto that , then twenty four times twenty four is five hundred and seventy six , I square , for it 's minus I square , minus formula cos then when I add to add I get six hundred and twenty five , it 's just , it 's one , you know like the three , four , five , triangle , in Pythagoras , yeah , you know , when you get three , four , five , and you can make them three squared , four squared , so is five squared , right , well , seven , twenty four , twenty five , is another one of those , right that 's how I knew seven , twenty four , I knew is six hundred and twenty five , that 's how I , that 's how I knew it 's . |