Example sentences of "[pron] can [verb] what [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can imagine what the real purpose of that coffee break was … |
| 2 | For those still in ignorance , I can reveal what every true-blooded Briton should have dinned into him from birth . |
| 3 | I little knew then what the future held for me and looking back I can see what a lot I had to learn . |
| 4 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 5 | As Carmel finished the 3s , she came to me and whispered : ‘ I think I can see what the 5s are going to be before I do it ’ , and she explained her prediction . |
| 6 | I want to be out on a limb with my back to the water so that I can see what the rest of the world is doing . |
| 7 | For nobody can understand what the Government is doing to clear up the economic mess it has created . |
| 8 | West Ham are one of the favourites to go straight up , but who can tell what the pressures of promotion will do to them in the final weeks . |
| 9 | If your organisation is a " high tech " company and works in areas such as microbiology or electronics it will be useful to have a trained scientist who can translate what the company is doing into terms which most people can understand . |
| 10 | Yes I think you can guess what the Harrogate Civic Society is |
| 11 | That 's to see if you can identify what the problems are with each of those three , and why they 're experiencing difficulties in their job . |
| 12 | You can tell what a person 's like from their lines — you make your face . ’ |
| 13 | but you can tell what the bar man was thinking |
| 14 | yes , then there 's the , yes , what that says , at the top , so you can announce what the aim of the campaign is . |
| 15 | Write in the box provided the response you would give to the statement , and see if you can decide what the differences are . |
| 16 | But if the document does n't exist , it does n't exist unless you can remember what the information was on that document but I would imagine . |
| 17 | if you can remember what the rule . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll go round , ’ said Simon , ‘ a couple more times , just so you can see what a long way down it is , and then , when we get right up there , right to the top , I 'm going to chuck you out . ’ |
| 19 | You know and immediately can you see , you 've asked him all these questions you can see what a pain in the neck you are to all the people you 've asked these questions of . |
| 20 | Well , if you really want to know go to Jason McCoy before the end of August and you can see what an actual stable looks like , his stable . |
| 21 | It 's got a very thick safety glass door on it so you can see what the little dears are doing but ca n't hear them . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You can see what the problem is ’ , G. says . |
| 23 | This was a solicitors pick it up and my Lord so you can , you can see what the dispute was . |
| 24 | I says that 's got ta be Warren , it could n't be anybody else , so when I come down I went off like , well I tell ya I ca n't do it , so I knew it was so I picked up the wrong she says oh I 'm just ringing because you can see what the weather is she says and you could n't go and do a day in erm , with your |
| 25 | Erm , now I will give you as much help as I can with that , but not the actual subject of it , erm , you can determine what the objective is yourselves . |
| 26 | So you can understand what a sacrifice it is your father is making in sending you to this school . |
| 27 | ask it questions , it 's obviously on the telephone because you can ask what the balance is and it will tell you , and it ca n't possibly know that and Cleethorpes , when you put the card in the Cleethorpes thing , that , you know , your bank balance at Nottingham is so it 's obviously on the telephone erm and it 's on the telephone to a central computer which holds quite a lot of information , it accesses |
| 28 | ‘ Even Anthony Hopkins is rattled by Coppola , so you can imagine what a seventeen-year-old kid from Ohio felt like . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 30 | You can imagine what an outcry there 'd be from women if we made some such generalisation about them , but we men are supposed to take this shit . ’ |