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 !
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