Example sentences of "can do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But here , Mr Lenarduzzi and his staff perceive a recurrent problem : ‘ How do you know when a child can do something ? ’ he asks . |
| 2 | Here the organisers have set up an international event where walkers , climbers and people everywhere can do something they enjoy doing and benefit others at the same time . |
| 3 | It 's about individual people realising they can do something beyond what they may normally expect to achieve . ’ |
| 4 | YOU can do something about the situation , YOU can take personal responsibility for conserving the worlds finite resources , by not consuming meat and animal products . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , we can do something about that straightaway and at the same time keep you under observation . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's how the West can do something for us . |
| 7 | Of course you can do something . |
| 8 | One example , suggesting that we may be able mentally to rotate objects , was mentioned at the end of the last chapter , and a second , in this one , demonstrated that we do in fact recognize sets of similar markings ( note that a psychological demonstration that we can do something , and an account of a calculation which would enable us to do so , are quite different things ) . |
| 9 | Words can do something . |
| 10 | ‘ If you can do something as well as that , you must be able to convey — a little bit — ’ |
| 11 | You can do something to moderate the anger . |
| 12 | Feedback is easier to accept if you can do something constructive once you have got it ; if you know how to develop yourself , you are more likely to welcome feedback when it is offered and also more likely to solicit it actively . |
| 13 | Taking several samples of firedamp in glass bottles , Sir Humphry returned to London telling Buddle , ‘ I think I can do something for you ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ The principle is that once we find we can do something that makes us feel good , we repeat it , ’ he explains . |
| 15 | ‘ And you can do something for me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Then you can do something for me . ’ |
| 17 | And anyway , even if we ask them , I mean , even if they think we can do something about it , though Christ knows what , I do n't want a lot of knowalls who have n't got any kids and do n't know the first thing about them telling us what to do with ours — ’ |
| 18 | Carrying a rape alarm will certainly give you confidence that you can do something if you are attacked . |
| 19 | You can do something to bring this about . |
| 20 | ‘ Well now that you 've single-handedly won the war on drugs , perhaps you can do something useful , like scrub the deck ? ’ |
| 21 | It is the firm belief that he can do something for them through Jesus . |
| 22 | When a person has faith that Jesus can do something for them , then all things are possible . |
| 23 | It is the centurion who has the faith that Jesus can do something . |
| 24 | I can ask him if he can do something to help the nomes in the quarry . |
| 25 | Smith 's job is to make people see he could care less , can do something about Britain 's problems and that his words are worth more than those of Johnny Devaluation . |
| 26 | And when they go out on a football field they can do something about it . |
| 27 | And I hope you can do something for this little lad here . |
| 28 | The first level is something that the climbers can do something about , and that is removing their rubbish . |
| 29 | ‘ I hope someone can do something for him . |
| 30 | The slighted Samaritan can , of course , reply on her own behalf that she does care about suffering in general but that she cares much more about its manifestations that she can do something about and that involve her personally . |