Example sentences of "one can [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not stop it if I wished , ; no one can stop it . |
| 2 | then you 're not gon na stop it , I mean if there 's class struggle no one can stop it . |
| 3 | ‘ No one can accuse us of sitting still ! ’ |
| 4 | Once it 's locked up inside a glass case , surely it 's safe ; no one can expect me to do anything about it then . |
| 5 | As for the rest , ‘ no one can expect us to sign our own death sentence . |
| 6 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 7 | Robert Dalrymple says its relationships with most of its tenants are excellent but no one can deliver them from recession . |
| 8 | First of all one can deflect it by denying that some forms of species solidarity are mere bias . |
| 9 | No one can advise you because no one else is you or your family . |
| 10 | One can bludgeon them with facts , anecdotes and innuendoes about the ways in which land is being misused , show that even the best of intentions are misguided , and that most people who have to do with land and what it provides hold views which are wrong . |
| 11 | to me , its broken it , oh yeah , pick up any of those on valentines day , if some one can send you any of that stuff , what would you get sent ? |
| 12 | ‘ Listen , once Ari 's in control of herself , no one can hurt her , in any way . |
| 13 | No one can tell me they are not victims of war . ’ |
| 14 | They choose to tax as much as they want to and they choose to spend as much as they want to and no one can tell them otherwise , there is no central control over that . |
| 15 | It is for this reason that we often feel isolated in our quest ; after all , if no two people share the same experiences , no one can tell you the best way to deal with a particular situation . |
| 16 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
| 17 | Again , after that first superficial cut , I do n't think one can rule it out . |
| 18 | He may fail as a result of natural disasters but no one can blame him for that . |
| 19 | In later years , offered the objection that celibacy is not always possible , Lewis the radio evangelist was to be quite unambiguous : ‘ faced with an optional question in an examination paper , one considers whether one can do it or not ; faced with a compulsory question , one must do the best one can … |
| 20 | No one can reach us , it 's bliss . ’ |
| 21 | No one can sack us , no one can take our pensions away , in Spycatcher three of us decided in favour of Mrs Thatcher and against the editor of The Sunday Times , and those three of us did n't care a damn for the editor of The Sunday Times . |
| 22 | No one can make him do anything he does n't want . |
| 23 | Let's face it , no one can make me look like Princess Diana . ’ |
| 24 | But no one can make me talk to you . |
| 25 | ( 1b ) Thus by reducing the temperature of matter in the gaseous state one can make it pass through all three physical states . |
| 26 | and no one can break it now , just get the hell |
| 27 | In the north-east , we also saw on our televisions a gentleman — if one can call him that — being interviewed after the death of his son in a 90-mph crash involving a stolen car on the outskirts of Newcastle . |
| 28 | After all , since our last meeting , if one can call it a meeting , at the entrance to the sweet little National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh , all those years ago , you have cut yourself off from your friends and well-wishers . |
| 29 | There was a house , if one can call it that , on the left of the close . |
| 30 | No one can call you a failure . ’ |