Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Added Cliff : ‘ We can reproduce virtually anything providing it is not obscene . ’ |
| 2 | The system improves your service , keeping a record of the guest 's history so that you can identify where he spent his money last time he stayed ( by analysing his spending pattern ) , which room he stayed in , what his favourite drink is , whether he has to have special foods , and important facts like did he pay , did anything go wrong last time he stayed , and so on |
| 3 | Ooh no I ca n't , I can remember where we bought it , we bought it in Hillsham and we paid about two hundred pounds for it , I know , erm , what was I saying ? |
| 4 | Note as many examples now as you can remember where you feel you have been wronged . |
| 5 | Dean and Scott all that 's right , I can remember when I had you that 's all the names that were in fashion , but now it is Joshua |
| 6 | Did n't happen any town that I knew of except London and I can understand why they did it in London — very expensive place for a young detective to make a shape — cost too much money keeping in front of your job there . |
| 7 | Not nought I can understand why you said nought . |
| 8 | I can understand why he did it , to be quite honest . |
| 9 | As for Aunt Pamela , she never liked me and in a way I can understand why she resented my existence . |
| 10 | Each of the dealing firms has a different amount of stock but you can work out who has what by how keenly the prices compare with the best bid , best offer . |
| 11 | And I think you can see why I call it pessimistic because , basically it says in the Anglican prayer book , there is no good in us , what 's in us is , is bad , in the sense of anti-social egoistic , and if people are going to cooperate and if there 's gon na be social order , then as it were , it has to be imposed on them . |
| 12 | ‘ At times like this , ’ Bridget said sharply , ‘ I can see why I gave you the push after six weeks . |
| 13 | I can see why he asked me to sit down ! |
| 14 | I told Gary he should have said , ‘ And they must make you so proud ; everyone can see where they got their looks , Mother . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I can see where she gets her beauty , ’ he said , gazing at Irene . |
| 16 | well so that 's how it 's pleaded and that 's how we built it into the , these cases which I was referring to where an agreement is the object or the , the means or the consequence of an agreement , they enforce within five , the action is unlawful and of course there 's the final and fourth way in which it could be devoured this , because it , and again quoting the words from the cases , tends to have restricted affect on the market , I think your Lordship you can see how we pleaded it in paragraph two , two , three , it 's enforcing the consequence of the unlawful underline previous . |
| 17 | Yeah , but there 's a , I can see how she does it because you 've done it al , you know , for sixteen , seventeen years |
| 18 | We can see how he used his knowledge for the chapters on Hannibal in Gaul of Book 3 of his histories ; but Book 24 in which he summarized his findings is lost . |
| 19 | ‘ Bill can decide where he wants it later on . |
| 20 | If they said you can go anywhere you like it would , that would cause I would , I would have difficulty deciding . |
| 21 | Now this is set up differently cos this is set up very sensibly , so that you can fill in who wrote it , when , what date and what it 's about , and when you try and find it later it 's easier to find instead of scrapping through lots of files that do n't have a long document . |
| 22 | But the beauty of air power is it can get wherever you want it and go there very quickly indeed , because aircraft can be there in a very short time , ’ he said at the 75th anniversary celebrations at RAF Marham , Norfolk . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's always said I 'm the perfect man for long- ball football , but I can play anywhere you want me to . |
| 24 | But if you can start again it means you have not even begun . |
| 25 | Y you can say why you think it might be . |
| 26 | Well , if we draw stumps and do n't go to them and somebody writes to the Chief Constable and says I 'm very disappointed that your force no longer is gone A L O's then I shall be very happy that that letters received by the Chief because we can say well we told you so . |