Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] we can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come stand together so we can see you both . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Obviously if we can get his support and if he comes up trumps , it will be marvellous , ’ she said . |
| 3 | So if we can hurt them or certainly gang together if you like , cos unity is strength , and between the three workforces they 'll certainly slow down production and hopefully force things . |
| 4 | So if we can do something that may trick the would-be burglar into thinking there 's someone in , then he may well go somewhere else . |
| 5 | in the next couple of weeks , so if we can use them |
| 6 | and then er she ca n't be a member , but take her to bowls and then bring her here , she goes to bingo on a Tuesday and a Thursday , but the point is it 's night time , so if we can fill her days in a bit |
| 7 | ‘ Especially if we can get it into the shops quickly . ’ |
| 8 | So long as we can get it , that 's all I 'm bothered about . |
| 9 | Cook it so as we can have it cold with salad or something . |
| 10 | Patrick I 'm I 'm gon na take a flier with you all right so we can save it . |
| 11 | Just cos we can hear you when you 're in here . |
| 12 | ‘ Not if we can see you first ! ’ |
| 13 | At least , not until we can get their bod — . |
| 14 | Sensations of white , for instance , are classed together , not because we can take them to pieces , and say they are alike in this , and not alike in that , but because we feel them to be alike altogether , though in different degrees . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But we 'll go , all of us , just as soon as we can make it . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , well Tony Primmer 's one of the riders from Eastbourne that we managed to pick up because we can get him in on a low point average . |
| 18 | After a while she runs out of things to say , so she says ‘ hold on till we can answer your call ’ , and that is followed by a lengthy silence ( for which you pay more money through your other nostril ) . |
| 19 | If only Greene would phone back so we can discuss it ! |
| 20 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 21 | But as far as we can tell he does n't seem to have any brain damage . ’ |
| 22 | Footnotes in plenty have been added to Dodd , but his pattern remains a fair summary of the early preaching so far as we can reconstruct it . |
| 23 | " As far as we can determine there were three men , two with clubs who did the beating and one other , " Tom Rooney said quietly . |
| 24 | Even so , the starting-point , so far as we can find one , was polytheistic . |
| 25 | I suppose the winning streak had to come to an end sometime and really it 's better now when we can do something about it than at crimble when it 'll be more difficult to start shifting the team around in the more hectic fixture list . |
| 26 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 27 | Well if we can put them in little bags , ooh |
| 28 | Even if we can convince ourselves that nobody is getting hurt , even if we are sure we are not cheating , we have a suspicion that it is inappropriate . ’ |
| 29 | We in the world campaign which has so far tried to stop armaments to South Africa and its nuclear build up we want to work if possible to build a common security er , arrangement in the region where peace will be everywhere if we can make it everywhere because the region has got so many weapons and arms and military expenditure is very easy to increase when you have growing number of nation states where the people really need food and development . |
| 30 | The drama 's about how to look after the animals , finding out what they eat , where they come from , maybe whether we can release them back into the wild . |