Example sentences of "we can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They provide a reference point and by comparing our behaviour with the reference point we can tell what adjustments are required . |
| 32 | ‘ I hope John does n't hear about the bombing , or our Eileen or Joe before we can tell them we 're all safe , ’ Anne said . |
| 33 | walking up the road , we can tell them . |
| 34 | But as far as we can tell he does n't seem to have any brain damage . ’ |
| 35 | With a beard like that we can tell it 's quite old . |
| 36 | While on the subject of meat , we can tell you that the competition to find the best-made sausages in the UK gets under way this Sunday with the defending champion reported to be in sizzling form . |
| 37 | ‘ We can tell you , ’ said Jack . |
| 38 | Let us know and we can tell you more about it . |
| 39 | ( But only the Mirror knows how the pictures were obtained — and we can tell you her claim is rubbish . ) |
| 40 | ‘ I 'm not sure we can tell you anything new . ’ |
| 41 | Apart from that , there 's nothing we can tell you to make you safe . ’ |
| 42 | A full investigation of the facts is currently being carried out , but in the meantime we can inform you of the following . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | We need interest rate cuts and we need them now in our pockets where we can feel them . |
| 45 | And by ‘ supporting ’ the war we can feel we are exercising responsibility for the state of the world . |
| 46 | God 's power resent with us in the here and now , we ca n't see it but we can feel it . |
| 47 | SERAFIN : So we can prefer what we 're not aware of enjoying to what we are aware of enjoying ? |
| 48 | We can draw anything in the world if we know what it looks like , but only when drawing a human being can we truly say we know what it feels like . |
| 49 | We can draw anything in the world if we know what it looks like , but only when drawing a human being can we truly say we know what it feels like . |
| 50 | We can chase her across fields , lock away our birds every night , protect them with wire and all sorts of nonsense but , when we 're dead and gone , a fox will still be coming back . |
| 51 | From these letters to an aunt we can gather something of his habits of devotion . |
| 52 | He is confident , brave and agile , and from what we can gather he is rated the best in America . |
| 53 | Once we have identified a need , we can go back and work out how we can satisfy it at a price that the market is prepared to pay . |
| 54 | Returning now to the dualist 's notion of invariant content and variable style , we can retain what is good in this distinction by refining it to allow for more than one level of stylistic variation . |
| 55 | You 've got , you 've got like water rate , twelve hundred , er , rates , twelve but er , what we could try to do is approach them and see if we can lump it in with this year and that , obviously have to pay higher |
| 56 | Properly discounting the three notorious rescue cases , we can cite its performance along with the Spanish , American , French and Italian examples as evidence to bear out the theoretical expectation that industrial co-operatives should perform at least as well as conventionally organised businesses ; and that the extra that Co-operation has to offer as an ingredient necessary to full success , a potential in motivation , is indeed available to help industrial co-operatives out-perform conventional businesses . |
| 57 | Erm , what we have to do is to look at , if you like , the way in which A , we can improve what we do erm , and see if we ca n't get more out of the two of you than we do currently , I 'm sure you 'll enjoy what we 're doing . |
| 58 | Science exists so that we can improve our understanding of naturally occurring phenomena . |
| 59 | We can improve our ability to understand our horse if we can gradually train ourselves to observe it more intently , and to see in what situations and in what context different sounds , movements , and behaviour are used . |
| 60 | At any stage in life , we can improve our relationship with others by learning to be aware and to communicate . |