Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] can [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Concrete can also be used as a base on which to lay paving slabs on five dabs of cement and sand , or you can bed crazy paving on it . |
2 | Or you can page up and page down or |
3 | The fee is about £300 plus VAT excluding transport costs — or they can re-enamel the bath in situ . |
4 | Either the union is strong enough and can stand it , or it can t , and hard luck . |
5 | It can bolt it or it can corner but so long as the muzzle is in place it can not kill . |
6 | He does n't know of the possibly criminal activities which may be going on under the cover of the Ingard group — and I can t at present discuss such matters with him . |
7 | Details have still to be worked out , but Chez reckons that with the aid of his home computer and his Nintendo Boot Sale Blitz game , he and I can milk off a tidy sum whilst still leaving the club with a small profit . |
8 | If so , you can give it to me to keep clean and I can hand it to you when you want it . |
9 | The sort of larger items the police have property marking kits that they 're quite willing to lend out to people , or alternatively , you can hire them out on your library card , and you can dye stamp those or engrave them . |
10 | Here the individual pixels are about the size of characters and you can Set and Reset them at will . |
11 | And by altering a few easy to undo buckles , baby can be carried in the cradling position and you can breast feed in privacy . |
12 | It 's just that you , your better of space if you have that one and you can books down there or on them whatever you want too and if you had that one , you 'd be able to have a , erm another cupboard as well probably . |
13 | It is n't quite so quick to use as the knobs of a panel-mounted set as there is no way of rotating the full MHz figures separately from the decimals ( it takes my fingers well over 150 twiddles to get from 118,00 to 136.975 Mhz ) , but there is a twenty-frequency memory bank , and you can cycle quickly through the stored frequencies . |
14 | They 're called a pacifier and you can sort of like use them to strike and to defend yourself with them yeah ? |
15 | Now sometimes they might give it you as sixteen to the three quarters and you can sort of read that off , What am I doing here ? |
16 | And you can sort of join in the the church group . |
17 | And the people who run the shop are runners themselves and you can sort of go to them and ask their advice on all sorts of things |
18 | But I would imagine that 's what she wants to train Teresa up for , so she can just run it and she can sort of |
19 | can do it on Monday and we can People will have until Friday then to ask . |
20 | But if you 're really stuck and you 've got a third question that you ca n't come up with I mean y'know sort of blur it , fudge it and make it look like there 's a sort of metamorphic answer there and we can sort of say well that 's sort of twenty percent or something and then that counts and it may carry you over . |
21 | ‘ You are talking to the despatcher in Schreiber , ’ he said , ‘ — that 's ahead of us , this side of Thunder Bay — and he can radio straight to the Canadian following us . |
22 | A fully grown White Rhino may stand 6 feet tall ( 183 centimetres ) and it can weight almost 8,000 pounds ( 3,600 kilograms ) . |
23 | And what can reflexology do to your tired feet ? |
24 | It 's silly to cry , specially when it ai n't me who 's hurt , but I can t stop . |
25 | But I can image yo , yo , you can stand |
26 | ‘ Communication is difficult but I can sort of make myself understood in some ways . |
27 | But you can t spend a lifetime in a shipping office without learning something about ships . |
28 | But we can buttonhole anyone we please as they leave the chamber : a privilege akin to the London correspondents of Pravda or Izvestia being able to accost cabinet ministers in the members ' lobby of the Commons . |
29 | Now , the seminar session that I 'm going to run , we can eith we 'll have Jeannie set up but we can sort of kick off with a discussion about topics that you want to cover in the revision |
30 | Unfortunately , Graham has a minor shortcoming when it comes to cracks — he ca n't jam ; but he can layback ! |