Example sentences of "the [noun sg] you can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No amount is too small for all the women and children who desperately need the support you can give them . |
| 2 | Before ( and after ) moving your counter around the board you can change your team formation and swap players around to get defence , midfield and attack ratings to match your opponents ' . |
| 3 | If you do n't support the roof you can expect it to fall and two men were hurt . |
| 4 | … I think the better you are at public relations the better you can do your job . |
| 5 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 6 | I 'll tell you what you can do on the freezer there 's some cat food for the cat you can feed him that . |
| 7 | If you 've got a pot or tray of seedlings , prick them out the moment you can handle them — holding them by a seed leaf , never a crushable stem . |
| 8 | Once the colour has solidified in the palette you can treat it as normal ‘ pan ’ watercolour : the colour can be lifted off by applying a wet brush . |
| 9 | And the rest of the evening you can enjoy yourselves . |
| 10 | As the organiser you can have your own holiday free by getting together friends or family in a group as small as 15 full fare passengers only . |
| 11 | And she says Jean you know well you can see er she says you know the day before Ros was in Lisburn and she says you know the way when you 're standing and from the back you can feel somebody that their eyes are penetrating through you and she said she happened to turn round and there she 's sitting in , in this girl 's car and just er looked at her like that . |
| 12 | Just like that she walks and walks and , nights , morning any time of the day you can see her , no paths , you know what the roads are like |
| 13 | ‘ If you want the tale you can have it . |
| 14 | " If you want the wedding-dress you can have it , sir . " |
| 15 | If you look under the arch of the bridge you can see them . |
| 16 | In the morning you can give it me . |
| 17 | AS A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH YOU CAN USE YOUR INFLUENCE — IN DISCUSSION AND BY THE WAY YOU VOTE . |
| 18 | on the box you can see it made up and then with all the bits and pieces separate |
| 19 | Well , I 've got it written down here , and at the end of the lesson you can get it . |
| 20 | Look if you hold the handle you can tip it , tip it up . |
| 21 | ‘ I remember those nights we shared our thoughts on that subject , Nick , and I think my son kind of needs the understanding you can give him . ’ |
| 22 | Which is two five three , so if you 're in the ship you can have them you can do , work this out from the bearings they both give you and check that they 're roughly right , they wo n't be exactly right |
| 23 | I think just , if you 've got the number you can take it into an ordinary bank . |
| 24 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |
| 25 | ‘ But the only way we can find that out will be to go and look at this mistletoe , and on the way you can tell me more about Miss Miggs . ’ |
| 26 | On the way you can tell me what 's happened to make you lather up that great horse of yours in such a fashion . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Stupid , in n it , the way you can lose your way in the dark , 'specially in a strange place ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I hear on the grapevine you can get your hands on the occasional salmon , ’ Bert said suddenly , with a wink . |
| 29 | If you have a look at the sheet you can see there are six sections and then on the right hand side there are two columns , one is headed up pupil the other is headed up teacher . |
| 30 | So the salt you can remember it through going back to the acid plus alkali reaction , it 's the same one you get there . |