Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] can " in BNC.
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1 | If they then go out and collect signatures no-one can say that the petition has been organized by a small group who have twisted arms in the street . |
2 | For a number of reasons I can not accept Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’ |
3 | The only reasons I can think of are 1 ) trying to scare Deano into scoring ( ! ) ; and 2 ) work permits . |
4 | On the expenditure side of the accounts I can say that , certainly up to the half way stage of the financial year , the budget is holding . |
5 | Then there 's a jolt — I 'm not the same as these women , I have no children , no dependants and I have skills I can sell without impediment . |
6 | ‘ It was one of the quietest schooldays I can remember , ’ says Alwyn Miller , of Granville Terrace , Binchester , Bishop Auckland , who was also a pupil at Bishop Auckland . |
7 | Although since I 've been on these tablets I can eat |
8 | You could you could make loads I can make loads of them ! |
9 | ‘ They 'll be there , but if you want to make a start on the print-outs I can let you have some tonight ? ’ |
10 | I will look into some rules etc over the next couple of weeks and see what proposals I can come up with . |
11 | ‘ At Board meetings I can make sure that the issues which are being discussed are given a legal perspective . |
12 | probably by going to these meetings I can pick up the be best practice for ideas which can be passed on to the others |
13 | Erm but in the meantime those are the first essays I can er erm are you erm , working on that or thinking about that ? |
14 | Q : Is there any limit to the number of times I can claim ? |
15 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
16 | If I do that two or three times I can make about half the cost of the room per day at the hotel — honestly . ’ |
17 | In around 6 months time I 'll have one of these famed degrees ( hopefully ) and at times I can be equally dopey … to the extent that the same thing happenend to me regarding my cashcard . |
18 | ‘ It 's one of the fastest times I can remember for so early in the season , ’ said Christie . |
19 | In other words , I mean I 'm retired and I mean the point is that my erm experience goes back into the er into the dark ages I can almost say because in these days , you probably realise , I mean if anybody buys a video you do n't ask you do n't look for the book of instructions you ask about a five year old kiddy how to programme it ! |
20 | Erm not really you know maybe in an out of the way way they might but you know the type of musicians we are or whatever , you know we can do say I can do all the Irish stuff the up tempo rousing songs I can play Irish and Scottish dances and that kind of stuff , then Tony can do right across the board with easy listening stuff and country stuff and even one of the tracks on our new C D is er is er well what I would term a pop song . |
21 | To be fair to the manufacturers I can say that most of the better filter units available have very comprehensive instructions , either on the packaging , or contained inside the box as a leaflet . |
22 | Well if there are any trips I can get them cheaper ca n't I ? |
23 | My insatiable curiosity will be satisfied one way or the other and , as you said yourself , there are plenty of established garden designers I can call up if , or rather when , they 're required . ’ |
24 | I 'm afraid he 's the only one of your innocents I can help . |
25 | But Bruneau was far in advance of his time and there are still many Haydn and Mozart sonatas I can hear only as he played them . |
26 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
27 | ‘ I have been in the game as player , coach and manager for 30 years and for the first time in the last three months I can feel the adrenalin starting to flow again , ’ said Totten . |
28 | There 's loads of shops I can look in and there 's all these Christmas lights . |
29 | A. The Flag or Festive Cichlid , Mesonauta festivus , is one of the most peaceful Cichlids I can think of . |
30 | There are lots of plain old-fashioned words I can think of right now , going back to the Bible , some of them . ’ |