Example sentences of "can [vb infin] about it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt . |
| 2 | We can laugh about it now , ca n't we , darling ? |
| 3 | We can laugh about it now . |
| 4 | So if you can think about it like laterally but we gon na have to work out an argument |
| 5 | Write down everything you can think about it . |
| 6 | You can think about it and it 's very useful to think about it as a as a distance measure in a sense . |
| 7 | So er she says well you can think about it for a fortnight er you see her daddy put out discos altogether because of the lies but she cos she gets nervous because when she 's telling a lie to you she 'll go red |
| 8 | We can think about it after Christmas . |
| 9 | In fact , he can joke about it , saying : ‘ I do n't think I 'll make Slimmer-of-the-Year because there is n't that much I need to lose . |
| 10 | These days we can joke about it , ask him to turn people into toads . |
| 11 | He can joke about it . |
| 12 | M My Lords , first of all the there are a number of reports out now very erm good reports that do encourage primary schools to look and exploit the specialisms of the teachers on their staff and that would cover of course people who have a specialism in teaching this subject and it is also true , sadly in the case of some schools who wo n't allow er people who are specialists in the subject and can speak about it with authority for example er local vicars and priests and , and faith healers who can come in help in a school , but where those schools do ex exploit the expertise in the community , the school is enriched by that . |
| 13 | There 's nothing you can do about it , ’ I can hear some of you thinking . |
| 14 | These crags are already equipped , and there 's nothing you can do about it except enjoy the security . |
| 15 | ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 16 | My ears are burning in the cold , but there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 17 | My attitude to ageing is that it 's inevitable so there 's very little you can do about it . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've had numerous prison governors say to me , Yes , Conlon , we know you 're innocent , but there 's nothing we can do about it . |
| 19 | I 'm going to call those young fellows in again and see what they can do about it . ’ |
| 20 | There 's nothing you can do about it . |
| 21 | This is n't another beautifully executed US import — it 's a slab of classic British hokum , and there 's nothing LA Gear can do about it . |
| 22 | This unpalatable but , alas , essentially valid simile means that once an especially vile rumour has been launched there is all too little the wretched victim can do about it . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ It 's a dreadful thought , but there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 24 | ‘ Then let us see what we can do about it . ’ |
| 25 | It explains how a woman may feel and what she and her partner can do about it ! |
| 26 | Cabinet under Mrs Thatcher is ‘ not used so much as a formal forum where there are papers saying we have this problem and here are the options for what we can do about it . |
| 27 | And the worse thing is that now there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 28 | Several local PPLs , who have to go to him , have complained about this exorbitantly high fee , but it seems that there is little we can do about it . |
| 29 | There 's nothing you can do about it . ’ |
| 30 | Self-preservation , replies Kate the British Committee librarian feebly , I ca n't afford a breakdown , this is me for the moment , there 's nothing I can do about it . |