Example sentences of "can [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repeatedly interviewing the same people can sensitise them to the research , and this may have unknown effects on their responses . |
| 2 | In reality children usually start to lose interest after about two weeks once they realize that they can earn them relatively easily . |
| 3 | Work which can earn me money in my spare time . |
| 4 | The other thing about celebrity , of course , is that it can earn you a decent living — although usually only after years of struggle , as with most jobs . |
| 5 | A car boot sale can earn you extra cash and save you money by reducing the load your removers have to take to your new home . |
| 6 | I 'm not enduring any more of it ; you can keep the hundred pounds a year , I can earn it dressmaking and trimming millinery . ’ |
| 7 | Clever still I can earn it |
| 8 | 29 of the 89 articles of the constitution deal with limitations on the parliament 's power and ways in which the government can restrict it . |
| 9 | But we can , at this level , we can restrict it to numbers . |
| 10 | One correspondent , seeking to explain the motives behind the attack on the meeting-houses in the west midlands in the summer of 1715 , informed Staffordshire MP , William Ward , that the rioters have got a Notion , that the Ministry and Dissenters have ruined Trade , on Purpose to make the Nation out of Love with the late Peace , and Peace-makers ; and because the Ministry , and secret Committee , and their Friends , will not let the Country have Peace and Trade , they resolve ( if they can hinder it ) the Dissenters shall not have a quiet Toleration . |
| 11 | Sometimes I can laugh it off but inside it gets me down . |
| 12 | Now that I know the genetic formula of my insects , I can reproduce them at will , and I can tell the computer to " evolve " towards them from any arbitrary starting point . |
| 13 | ‘ He wrote back an absolutely charming letter ’ , he remembers , ‘ saying do n't worry about the money , of course you can reproduce it , and do n't worry about the copyright . ’ |
| 14 | If you get on the wrong side of Miss Trunchbull she can liquidise you like a carrot in a kitchen blender . |
| 15 | the appropriate sales person so that he and she can log it away in the manual . |
| 16 | I have to know so I can log it . |
| 17 | Will you turn that tape recorder off so I can thump him . |
| 18 | " It 'll warm his little heart for once , " he thought , " and if the leaders do get attacked , I suppose we can spare him easier than some . " |
| 19 | ‘ We can spare them , ’ Jessica told her , smiling . |
| 20 | Come on , you 've got lots , masses , you can spare me a bit . |
| 21 | When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm sure you can spare me a few moments of your time . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Surely you can spare me ten minutes — say a quarter of an hour ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ That is , ’ she hurried to add , ‘ if you and Dad can spare me … ’ |
| 25 | She can spare you but a few minutes , she says — ’ the dowager-duchess had in fact said no such thing ‘ — but will see you at once . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ If you mean because it 's your day off , there are no days off during this case unless I decide I can spare you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If your mother can spare you , boy , perhaps you 'll visit us ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ As soon as I can spare you , you are to go over there and make the place habitable . |
| 29 | ‘ I can spare you half an hour before my presence is called for in the refectory . |
| 30 | Menzies can spare you , I 've spoken to him . |