Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people may need to get married — trapped — to prove that they can get out , that divorce is not impossible , to discover that they can influence and do something about the situation . |
| 2 | ‘ So he can stay and assist me with my enquiries . ’ |
| 3 | You can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 4 | Their main advantages are : wood is an excellent insulator ; the windows come in an wide range of standard sizes ( and non-standard ones are easy for a joiner to make up if necessary ) ; they are , generally speaking , the cheapest type of replacement window to buy ; and you can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 5 | ‘ And I tell you frankly that in my opinion one must not hesitate to go to a prostitute occasionally if there is one you can trust and feel something for … . |
| 6 | Others are opportunists , killing anything they can catch and devouring it with relish . |
| 7 | Check the prices against what you can buy or install yourself before ordering . |
| 8 | Have you someone who can assist and support you with the children ? |
| 9 | Then , when we are ready , we can reconstitute and display it as new information which human beings can once again understand . |
| 10 | Anyone who has served with him at the Department — and I am talking not just about his present ministerial team — knows that he not only brings a greater degree of expertise to his job than anyone I can remember but does it with great inventiveness in terms of improving benefits and with an exceptional degree of compassion and , above all , integrity . |
| 11 | We should not limit the power and majesty of God to what we can understand but leave it to him . |
| 12 | In an age when insurance against all forms of liability is commonplace , it is surely not surprising or unjust if law makes persons who carry on some kinds of hazardous undertakings liable for the harm they do , unless they can excuse or justify it on some recognisable ground . ’ |
| 13 | Once you 've stuck your shapes and text on the page you can rotate and repeat they to your heart 's content . |
| 14 | Now see how many of these countries ' capital cities you can name and fit them into the grid . |
| 15 | And you want me to introduce you , so that you can try and sell it to him . ’ |
| 16 | So if you want to get rid of somebody you can go and tell them to peu de doci which means getting lost . |
| 17 | Now you can go and put it in the bin . |
| 18 | Newspapers , therefore , are the media through which political parties can establish and/or sustain themselves in the minds of the public . |
| 19 | Well he can come and do mine after dinner . |
| 20 | In fact , th the New York Saint Andrews Society which exists to er I think to er , apart from to hold er meetings and er get togethers , also to assist er Scots in New York , at least that was one of it 's original er , principles , they have a er a splendid dinner with all these gentlemen in full kilts , kengroms , don'tski and do 's , the whole bangshoot , and and their their women folk can come and watch them from the gallery upstairs . |
| 21 | In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object . |
| 22 | Or , if that person buys you a gift voucher and you do n't necessarily want to have a treatment that states on the gift voucher , you can come and exchange it for products . |
| 23 | Now you can come and enjoy it in Europe 's very own Magic Kingdom — just a relatively short coach and ferry ride across the Channel |
| 24 | I just do n't see how you can kiss and cuddle me in the department when nothing at all is going on between us , and then just as soon as there is , you switch it all off like a blasted tap ! ’ |
| 25 | We will have destroyed some of our roots , burnt the family photographs for want of a tiny sum to buy the site compulsorily , block the drains which are drying it out , excavate it with a greater delicacy than the present JCBs can offer and restore it as a regenerating wetland of immense cultural significance . |
| 26 | The social services and your community occupational therapist can advise and help you in this . |
| 27 | In the case of Santiaguito , there is little evidence that the dome is actually growing at all — one can sit and watch it for hours without seeing anything more than a few wisps of steam from the top — and it 's quite safe to scramble all over it . |
| 28 | Ethical problems will surface , for no power-based organization likes to have its idiosyncrasies made public , and the anthropologist who is a member of the family and not merely a temporary visitor to the ‘ backyard ’ exotica can find that writing anything at all becomes crucially problematic . |
| 29 | If you do n't have a ‘ fridge , put the food in the coldest place you can find and eat it within one or two days . |
| 30 | Dress shop assistants grow supercilious , aware that they can uplift or slay us with a single comment . |