Example sentences of "then [pers pn] can [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And with this in mind and I 'm I 'm you will notice that I have n't spoken at all and that is quite deliberate on my part but then I can also say the same for many people sitting round here who know quite well that they have n't spoken either . |
| 2 | For example , if I normally doff my cap only to my superiors , but on an occasion doff my cap to an equal , then I can effectively communicate an ironic regard , with either a joking or a hostile intent ( the non-linguistic example is intended to draw attention to the great generality of the phenomenon ; for a study of a particular linguistic practice and the jokes thus made available , see the study of the openings of telephone calls by Schegloff ( 1979a ) ) . |
| 3 | ‘ If you ever find enough human emotion to fall in love then I can only pity the victim from the bottom of my heart , ’ she said savagely , lashing out in her pain like a wounded animal . |
| 4 | N. If you are knitting full needle rib then you can probably leave the stitch size a t the size you have been using , or increase it by half a number . |
| 5 | If your works scheme is contracted in to SERPS and you want to contract out , then you can also have a personal pension — but only to have somewhere to put your SERPS rebate . |
| 6 | And then right , and then you can also buy the shirt and tie . |
| 7 | But then you can really have a mortgage for that . |
| 8 | If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition . |
| 9 | Hit a 1-iron short of the bunker , then we can probably hit a 4-iron in . |
| 10 | And if the only relevant criticism of the practical experience of law is that of life then we can clearly identify the limitations of seeking to evaluate through the prism of science . |
| 11 | However , if the US wins , and imposes an old-fashioned pax americana , then we can confidently predict a rematch in the future . |
| 12 | If it 's jewellery it 's harder , it will show up , erm if you 're marking things like engagements rings , then the best thing to do is actually take photographs of them with a ruler or some sort of erm comparison of the size of the item cos if you do like a a ring on a photograph it 's gon na , it 's gon na come out like a , so if you got a ruler to say , you know , it 's only sort of one and a half inches in width or whatever , then we can actually get a clear picture of , of that . |
| 13 | The politics are quite different , and if the SNP MPs really expected to be hailed as conquering heroes , then it can only fortify the impression that they were either negligent or culpably naive in thinking through the consequences of their actions . |