Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] can [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is suggested that only by acting on the systems which constrain them can women hope to free themselves , and each of the three novels explores different possible forms this discursive action can take . |
| 2 | ‘ Did you know you can garrotte someone in a few seconds ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Did you know you can chambrer wine in the microwave ? ’ |
| 4 | I 'm just going to have to try a perpendicular approach and hope I can time my arrival to a point when the hole is passing in front of me . ’ |
| 5 | It explicitly rejected " both the do-nothing government of the last 12 years and the big government theory that says we can hamstring business and tax and spend our way to prosperity " . |
| 6 | After each kill they can feast and rest , then slowly digest the flesh on which they have gorged themselves . |
| 7 | My mum says he can kip on her sofa because she likes anyone with a Manc accent . |
| 8 | But it I do n't think you can darling , you 're not strong enough get on with it . |
| 9 | I do n't think you can Graham I do n't think it 's |
| 10 | But the only , I think the only course he 'll pass is mucking about course , let's see who can muck about for the next three years the most . |
| 11 | Regarding economic management , one tenet of monetarism is that the effects of money supply changes involve both long and variable lags , so that it assumes too much expertise on behalf of politicians to imagine they can time expansive monetary policy to their advantage . |
| 12 | I mean we can Toyota can produce , you know , sufficient Corollas or whatever it is that they make at Derby erm , to sat to satisfy the whole of the world market for that particular car , just from one plant . |
| 13 | I 've got on the tape here a song which is by Manny Fryer he used to sing in Steel Ice Band er now I know that that 's sort of very old hat , I 'm sorry , but I sort of live in the past and er this er I I believe also that these days so that er you know I can sort of justify that but this is a song that er she has sung which er reminds us that each of us has the potential to commit the crime I 'll try not to play it fast forward , let's see how we go . |
| 14 | ‘ As a kid , when you wan na vanish from your parents and environment , you know you can barrel off there and hide yourself quite effectively . |
| 15 | But that I mean I you know you can sort of screw that up . |
| 16 | Well I do n't think they can mother ! |
| 17 | I think I can sir . |
| 18 | Painted for a bust to be made , so that 's why we have the three views , but I think it 's very lucky , it means we can sort of walk round Charles , and get our own view of him . |
| 19 | government , it it 's various years so I hate to sort of say , ah well council taxes cuts will be a bit lower er with the conservatives going to be an argument which is but halfway to equal counties so I think we can sort of discount really what the conservatives say but I will say the liberal democrats are to be . |
| 20 | I think they can Alan I think they can . |
| 21 | Yes , I think it can part of it . |
| 22 | this means it can weight as much as fifty men ! |
| 23 | And I said I can sort of keep on top of mine , but I said I am up early . |
| 24 | Where I can not advise I can condole and communicate , which doubles joy , halves sorrow . |
| 25 | Geoff Hamilton travels south-west , to Bosvigo Plants in Truro , Cornwall , Nigel Colborn proves you can garden with gravel and Anne Swithinbank fills the air with the smell of sweet peas ; |
| 26 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |