Example sentences of "[vb base] you can " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is a tide flowing , to avoid being swept downtide you can take a transit on the next mark to steer the rhumb line . |
| 2 | ‘ Blue I can handle , blue you can see , blue is self-destructive and the posture of an idiot . |
| 3 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 4 | If they 're abroad I suggest you leave them out , if they 're still in the country I suggest you can leave them in . |
| 5 | ‘ I expect you can rely on your clerk to keep the guineas rolling in . ’ |
| 6 | I expect you can figure the rest out for yourself . ’ |
| 7 | Dear Willis — As I am informed by those who ought to know that you have " taken the ground " somewhere near London River , I expect you can tell me the whereabouts of the dear old Fortuna , built 1892 , rigged when I last saw her in 1920 as a square foresail brigantine . |
| 8 | ‘ I expect you can tell . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I expect you can guess the rest ! |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , with your mind I expect you can , ’ he teased . |
| 11 | I expect you can watch a bit of video . |
| 12 | I expect you can play tummyache while I do |
| 13 | One month 's notice is required for any withdrawals , but should you need your money in a hurry you can of course , withdraw it at any time . |
| 14 | The Forum Gallery has gathered a group of paintings , drawings and pastels by Walkowitz , on view until 17 October and if you hurry you can catch a show of drawings that Walkowitz did of the dancer Isadora Duncan until 9 October at Zabriskie . |
| 15 | ‘ I realise you can not afford to run all the time but , that said , it should still be the first thing you have a look at , ’ he reasoned . |
| 16 | Best alternatives for holidaying dog owners have traditionally been kindly neighbours or kennels , but a York-based hotel chain say you can take it with you ( your pup , that is ) . |
| 17 | Some people say you can actually taste the clover in it . |
| 18 | The new rules say you can drop your worst two results but the title will still go to the rider who is the most consistent . |
| 19 | What if I say you can do what you like with my son ? |
| 20 | ‘ I always say you can be frightening , Lydia , ’ said Betty . |
| 21 | ‘ They say you can tell all about a person from looking at his books , ’ said Constance , who had become addicted to book-collecting since she had acquired a car-load of secondhand volumes from a fair in the Midlands . |
| 22 | I have heard of a café near the Opera , where , if you sit long enough , they say you can see the whole world go by . |
| 23 | " Oh — please say you can . |
| 24 | ‘ But you say you can go safely in and out of it ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You say you can move mountains . |
| 26 | ‘ I know that you say you can not . |
| 27 | They say you can twist statistics to back up any viewpoint , but you can not argue with that record . |
| 28 | I 'm not saying we all had it together but you say you can er say that about four of 'em would then as that as that they got rid of it the other the others 'd get it you know eventually and th we 'd all have it in the end . |
| 29 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
| 30 | So now can you see how politically , there is a kind of political subtext to this section erm as I say you can only follow it so far down a road then you come to a dead end but I think it 's there and you ca n't really ignore it , the political subtext . |