Example sentences of "can [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm being honest er Rod if I can earn myself twenty five thirty thousand I 'm not I 'm not looking for you know fortunes . |
| 2 | Occasionally the fungus can ensconce itself in the terminal portion of the urethra , and it may then give rise to symptoms similar to those found in non-specific urethritis . |
| 3 | Creating synthetic chemical structures that can reproduce themselves represents not only an intriguing intellectual challenge , but also a possible way of illuminating one of the most basic processes of a living cell . |
| 4 | When you eventually get on to any committee it is surprising how quickly the esteem in which you are held grows when you can conduct yourself with confidence in the meetings . |
| 5 | you can make yourself see the point in doing them , |
| 6 | I pretended I was happy , you can make yourself think anything , but I 'm not . ’ |
| 7 | " Why should I help you stuff another client , just so you can make yourself rich ? " |
| 8 | And I like to keep it that way still if I can , because you can make yourself a lot of work over some small incident sometimes . |
| 9 | ‘ If you 're hungry you can make yourself a sandwich . |
| 10 | ‘ You can make yourself useful while I 'm gone ; there 's a percolator in the kitchen — I like mine strong and black . ’ |
| 11 | As well as those you can make yourself , there are the wood and metal blinds , including Venetian and louvred . |
| 12 | ‘ But , until we do , you can make yourself useful by binding up this hole in my arm before I give you the pleasure of bleeding to death . ’ |
| 13 | But do n't think you can make yourself too indispensable . |
| 14 | You can make yourself a few bob there I should think . |
| 15 | And er I really feel that , you know , you can make yourself more bloody trouble cos that 's what happened to Helen next door . |
| 16 | Any church which wishes consistently to plant new congregations must , it seems , take seriously the need to train new leaders who can make themselves fully available to this work . |
| 17 | But , in my experience , if this is the case although it is possible to plant a new church it will not happen nearly as quickly as it will do if someone can make themselves available full-time . |
| 18 | Many ailments , especially viral ones such as Fish Pox , can make themselves apparent a long time after purchase : in other words , unless you go the whole hog , like the very top Koi-keepers , quarantine is no guarantee that all will be well . |
| 19 | A single ruling class will still emerge , but a plurality of interests can make themselves felt within it . |
| 20 | John Plamenatz announced enthusiastically that " the voice of the people is heard everlastingly " through the spokespersons of these organizations , and Robert Dahl believed in the 1950s that the United States possessed " a political system in which all the active and legitimate groups in the population can make themselves heard at some critical stage in the process of decision " . |
| 21 | He 'll be happier if he can make himself useful . ’ |
| 22 | But if , if , I can make myself whole , or be made whole with the help of others , then it is my duty to submit to the pain , of healing , the lashes of contempt . |
| 23 | " Oh , I daresay I can make myself useful in some way , " " replied the mouse . |
| 24 | She could hear the soft lapping of the sea , the rustling of the leaves in the trees , and she thought , If I can make myself totally relax then I 'll be able to forget everything . |
| 25 | ‘ There is confusion in men 's minds and corrosion in their souls , ’ he announced , ‘ The moral force of Christendom can make itself felt in the conduct of nations . ’ |
| 26 | A fair deal for youth is what is advocated , informed by a recognition of the ease with which boisterous youthful energy can make itself objectionable and even dangerous to others , linked to the necessity of not allowing its troublesome character to dull the awareness of the natural and even positive qualities of youthful misconduct . |
| 27 | A very prosaic theory proposes that the electrical activity of the brain as we sleep produces the mental equivalent of white noise and that , just as we can make ourselves hear music in white noise , our unconscious can pick out a coherent story from the baffling array of visual images presented to it . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , this one can make herself heard when she wants to , believe me ! |
| 29 | What she can make herself sick . |
| 30 | I want Bob to become well known , too , so that he can liberate himself from me . ’ |