Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My cow-man can manage them alright on his own . ’ |
| 2 | A four-wheel-drive vehicle will be an essential , of course , and my husband can leave his car at the top on the main road when snow is forecast . |
| 3 | My registrar can take my clinic — it 's a small one — so I could be with you from three until four-thirty if you like . ’ |
| 4 | He said my father can have it , he can do , have it , I only want money for my charity , |
| 5 | My dog can make me laugh , shows me affection constantly , keeps me company , gives me something to cuddle and stroke , and keeps me fit . |
| 6 | My dad can hear you shouting ! |
| 7 | But my Belly can witness you move the wrong Way . |
| 8 | Its relationship with the molecular " vehicles " which express it is a non-reciprocal one : its presence can explain theirs , but they can not explain it . |
| 9 | His connections have kept him in training because he showed plenty of ability on the gallops and their decision can pay its first fruits with a win today as he looks a cut above Debsy Do and Nellie Dean . |
| 10 | I think people realise that their faith can overcome their doubts . |
| 11 | There are a number of ways in which Compact can enhance your teaching and professional development . |
| 12 | Should they break this code of conduct , their association can strike them from the register and ban them from practising medicine . |
| 13 | Further thought reveals however that it is not so simple , and that there are several stages , at any one of which error can occur which breaks a link in the chain of communication ( Fig. 7.2 ) . |
| 14 | New skills can increase personal satisfaction Women in particular are susceptible to believing that improving their appearance can help them reinvent themselves . |
| 15 | I say their contemplation can give no-one pleasure ; they are there because their absence would be resented by the average man who regards a large amount of futile display as in some way inseparable from the conditions of that well-to-do life to which he belongs or aspires to belong . |
| 16 | St Francis 's own mystical experience centred on his understanding of , and identification with , Christ the crucified redeemer ( he received the stigmata in a visionary experience at the end of his life ) , and at the heart of the theology of his followers was a stress on penance as a sacrament through which man can bring his nature into conformity with Christ . |
| 17 | What follows is an examination of structure and of how an awareness by the teacher of its significance can help him find the game in the drama . |
| 18 | Work like the Peplos kore ( fig. 39 ) , Exekias 's neck-amphora ( fig. 55 ) or the Vix krater ( fig. 58 ) show archaic Greek art in its assured prime : craftsmen who are masters of their craft can develop their styles and express what they want happily within the general limitations of inherited convention . |
| 19 | Understanding individuals in the context of their past can help us understand the present-day person . |
| 20 | The concept derives from an assertion by an individual against the rest of society , ; since we are social animals and essentially interdependent , we voluntarily ( or is it involuntarily ? ) surrender some of the autonomy of solitary existence in return for the support which society can give us . |
| 21 | Such simple lovers are not so simple and their love can lead them to one of the profoundest insights of religion , for such love requires an abandonment of selfishness and egotism , and these people are far advanced on the spiritual roads . |
| 22 | Such a tradition of behaviour ‘ is neither fixed nor finished ; it has no changeless centre to which understanding can anchor itself ; there is no sovereign purpose to be perceived or invariable direction to be detected ; there is no model to be copied , idea to be realised , or rule to be followed ’ . |
| 23 | All animals have three-dimensional bodies and their solidity can give them away . |
| 24 | Its comprehensiveness can make it difficult to read at times , but it is a text that is well worth persevering with . |
| 25 | No it does n't matter you lot can keep me right . |
| 26 | The Aston Villa manager , whose team can confirm their new favouritism for the crown by building on a two-point lead at the top , insists he is not fooled by Walker 's apparent concession of the title after Norwich 's 3-0 defeat at Wimbledon on Saturday . |
| 27 | With three relatively easy home fixtures remaining , player-coach Ivan Whitfield is confident his side can make their top-eight target . |
| 28 | WALES skipper Gareth Llewellyn hopes his side can reach their target of six wins out of six when they bring down the curtain on their African tour against the South African Barbarians in Windhoek today . |
| 29 | Unprotected penetrative sex is risky for a woman because if her partner has HIV , infected semen from his penis can enter her vagina or anus and the virus may be absorbed into her bloodstream that way . |
| 30 | His mood can affect his driving — ‘ If I 'm depressed , I drive quite gently . |