Example sentences of "can [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | * Get into the habit of standing back from your essay so that you can comment on it for the benefit of your reader ( see p. 104 ) . |
| 2 | The circumstances will dictate how much you can make of it from the standpoint of good video . |
| 3 | That is a remarkable achievement and I hope that we can build on it in the future . |
| 4 | You can think of them as the wires leading from a bank of three million photocells ( actually three million relay stations gathering information from an even larger number of photocells ) to the computer that is to process the information in the brain . |
| 5 | The current is you can think of it as the amount of water goes through , it 's actually the the current is the amount of electrons that get through in a second . |
| 6 | ‘ I can leaf through them on the train , and they might give me something to go on . ’ |
| 7 | The Handbook of Over-the-Counter Medicines compiled by Mike Smith ( Kyle Cathie , £6.99 ) lists all sorts of nasty afflictions , from acne to worms , and what you can buy for them at the chemist 's . |
| 8 | Historic Scotland has recently spelt out the service standards customers can expect from it with the publication of a new charter leaflet . |
| 9 | Nevertheless if there is anything I can do for you in the way of friendship , now or in the future , I hope you will not hesitate to call upon me . |
| 10 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's not a lot we can do about it at the moment , is there ? ’ |
| 12 | There 's nothing you can do about it at the moment . |
| 13 | I , I think we can we can look at what we can do about it in the future and whether it is practical to erm consult local members where possible . |
| 14 | Now I 'll put a line to do a transcription transcription goes in an appendix , put your transcription at the back of your work , in according to Appendix A and number the lines , so that you can refer to them in the body or wherever . |
| 15 | For brevity we can refer to it as the PCBCR . |
| 16 | This is a choice between two types of reading , in that one can choose between them on the basis of whether the novel 's contradictions are to be articulated and sustained in the act of reading ( " rhetorically aware " ) or suppressed by the reading ( " aesthetically responsive " ) . |
| 17 | ‘ But at the end of the day , I can look at myself in the mirror and say I gave 100 per cent . |
| 18 | You think I can look at myself in the morning with a damn great blue glass spike in my skull yelling at me , ‘ Hey , you 're a freak ’ ? |
| 19 | One reaches over my shoulder and cranes his neck so that he can look at himself in the mirror . |
| 20 | In his responsiveness to temporal processes he differed from many of his contemporaries and we can look upon him as the forerunner in literature of those , like Spenser and Shakespeare in the late sixteenth century , who were greatly concerned with the irreversible effects of time on the human mind and Spirit . |
| 21 | So I can run through it before the presentation . ’ |
| 22 | I said cos I shall phone the bank first thing Monday and I shall say right , he 's took the car so you can run to him for the money cos you 'll be getting none out of me . |
| 23 | Yet poisons can move from one to the other . |
| 24 | From his own statements , it is clear that he is word-perfect in his familiarity with the prophetic books of the Old Testament , can quote them at will , can move among them with the facility and expertise of a professional scholar . |
| 25 | Together you can return to us from the frozen forbidden place . |
| 26 | ‘ With the Smart Rope , the condition of the rope being hired is visible and the hirer can sign for it in the full knowledge of its condition , ’ says Jim Oag . |
| 27 | Okay , there was a survey carried out by British Telecom , and they asked some of their customers what were the most frustrating things that can happen to you on the telephone , and this was the answer , and some of the things that you 've come up with are here . |
| 28 | As we shall see strange things , involving complex arithmetical manipulations , can happen to it in the process of transfer . |
| 29 | Homeless people tend to be stereotyped but you can walk past someone in the street without realising they 're homeless . ’ |
| 30 | The countryside is so close you can walk to it from the city centre . |