Example sentences of "can do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attlee and Mountbatten have done a service to all mankind by showing what statesmen can do not with force and money but with lucidity , resolution and sincerity . |
| 2 | It is all I can do not to reply , ‘ Fuck you , get your own dinner . ’ |
| 3 | That 's what I 'm saying , if , if , if , a a we hope you 're never in the situation but if you was describing that man , try and describe that man as honestly , honestly and as best as you can do n't say , if I say to you oh did he have jeans on ? |
| 4 | And they all say you get in there to finish off as quick as they can do n't they ? |
| 5 | Okay , what we 'll do then is get you to sign this form here , we call it a green form fairly obviously from its colour and that means that I can do up to erm about eighty six pounds worth of er a bit more depending on on what we have to do , and you do n't have to pay us anything towards that . |
| 6 | The best we can do today , says Lord Joseph , is warn young people , as much as possible , that poverty and teenage single parenting are inextricably linked . |
| 7 | You do n't put off anything you can do today . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If you really want to help me out , Kokos , the best thing you can do today is lie low and keep your mouth shut . ’ |
| 9 | By breaking it down into something I can do today , there 's a much better chance I will actually do it . |
| 10 | ‘ As there 's nothing else you can do today , I 'll see you in the morning . ’ |
| 11 | All a poet can do today is warn . |
| 12 | You have to all you can do today is drop me off in , near the memorial in Chudleigh cos I got |
| 13 | Nobody else can do both within the same song . |
| 14 | They can do both at the same time . |
| 15 | What you can do both at the same time can you ? |
| 16 | Girls somehow grow up thinking that perhaps they can do both , but they think that can have , you know , five or ten years off work and then go back to it . |
| 17 | you can do right okay |
| 18 | Erm not really you know maybe in an out of the way way they might but you know the type of musicians we are or whatever , you know we can do say I can do all the Irish stuff the up tempo rousing songs I can play Irish and Scottish dances and that kind of stuff , then Tony can do right across the board with easy listening stuff and country stuff and even one of the tracks on our new C D is er is er well what I would term a pop song . |
| 19 | It shows what the writer can do rather than what he thinks . |
| 20 | It 's the one thing the nation that produced Shakespeare ( albeit 400 years ago ! ) thinks it can do rather well . |
| 21 | Occupational therapists seem to be rare in their concentration on what people can do rather than what they are unable to do . |
| 22 | Any additional support or special tuition that a pupil needs as a result of defective sight must be given tactfully by the teacher or teacher 's aid , with an emphasis on what the pupil can do rather than on difficulties . |
| 23 | Unlike the demos you get on ZZAP ! 64 covertapes , PD demos tend to illustrate what the programmer or the host machine can do rather than try to sell you a game . |
| 24 | If it 's just a cough to go with the cold then there 's nothing they can do anyway , but if it 's an asthmatic cough then I can give him some erm Ventolin . |
| 25 | Diets you can do tomorrow . ’ |
| 26 | It may seem unnecessary to add : if given a choice , do not attempt to answer a question that you do not understand ( unless , of course , your plight is such that there is no other you can do instead ) . |
| 27 | What you can do instead is park the call very like the switchboard , park the call at the desired handset , so take my extension , 4444 , I receive a call for Hilary , 4524 , I do n't know how , it just happens , or perhaps it was , you know , an easy mistake . |
| 28 | Our long term follow up study of patients who underwent urgent cardiac transplantation shows that many such patients can do excellently , both in terms of survival and quality of life . |
| 29 | Is there anything practical you can do immediately ? |
| 30 | The latter we can do immediately ; the former will take a little longer ( Theorem 1.4.10 ) . |