Example sentences of "can [pron] [adv] [vb infin] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How can I honestly feel that way , knowing what he did to Mark — the way he treated him ? ’ |
| 2 | Can I just mention that time is getting on and the Parish Council still has n't discussed this |
| 3 | Well this is where Michael is a he would rather , I mean when I say to him can I just do some work on you calc I say , no , cos you are not doing any work , the calculator 's doing the work . |
| 4 | Erm can I just clarify this point , the impression I 'm getting from the , from the phraseology in the way you 've chosen your words is that your trustees in your particular pension funds which all er former nationalised industries , er have n't received any training . |
| 5 | You should have them in your diaries but as we have such a full complement this evening , can I just draw those attention er to your attention . |
| 6 | Can I still play this game ? |
| 7 | How can I ever make that thing stay upright ? you ask yourself . |
| 8 | Can you not stay another day to sail round the island ? ’ |
| 9 | Can you can you just explain that bit again |
| 10 | Can you just put that orangejuice somewhere for me please . |
| 11 | Can you just say that bit about the pulmonary in the vein and the pulmonary in the wee artery again please |
| 12 | How can , how can you possibly put that ball back where it was ? |
| 13 | Can you still justify each figure ? |
| 14 | Can you really give any credence to this ordure ? ’ |
| 15 | So what can you actually do this thing . |
| 16 | can you only get those sort of erm those sort of |
| 17 | But only by allowing such openness can we effectively establish any kind of good practice . |
| 18 | The legal position is clear , so can we please stop this nonsense ? |
| 19 | Erm , I 'm in favour because I had a walkabout with therefore I would like to say on five point three the and on five point six I would like to say B can we just have some traffic calming on the boundary , such as Lane , Road ? |
| 20 | I mean that 's our — we design books , and we design journals , and we set up and we take on new journals and can we ever extract any copy from the editorial board — we know it 's going to be about Plant Sciences , but no idea what length of headline and how much technical gump is going to go into it , or we take something on |
| 21 | How can we actually articulate that sense of a broader vision ? |
| 22 | How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ? |
| 23 | When our internal organs , lungs , liver or kidneys , are like the far side of the moon , never visible , how can we possibly have any feeling for them ? |
| 24 | How can they possibly control such success ? |
| 25 | He realises too late that not only can he not meet that deadline but he will not be able to finish those accounts before 31 December 1994 . |