Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food can excite before it even enters our mouth . |
| 2 | Social occasions are now more flexible , so that the bride or bride 's mother can speak if she so wishes , and sometimes the best man can be a best girl ! |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Saddam can claim that he alone has resisted the greatest military power in the world plus allies for longer than any Arab states ever resisted Israel , or anybody . |
| 4 | You can see that it therefore presents the same face to the Sun at every other perihelion and that any tidal bulge would lie along the Sun-Mercury line every perihelion . |
| 5 | They feel guilty about getting so ratty , can see that it only serves to make things worse by souring relationships , yet they are unable to stop themselves . |
| 6 | They say they 'd appreciate knowing what I originally had in mind , so they can see if it still sounds suitable . |
| 7 | Should a metal bar be heated ten times , a hundred times , or how many times before we can conclude that it always expands when heated ? |
| 8 | A woman can forgive but she never forgets . |
| 9 | It may be objected that the identification of such continuities bases a far-fetched proposition on simple coincidences , against which one can argue that it simply extends to the Reeve 's tale an alert manner of reading which has become absolutely orthodox in respect of the Miller 's Tale . |
| 10 | He told the jury : ‘ Mo is disabled but he can crawl and he also has a car . |