Example sentences of "[pron] can do [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you all have to wear the same uniform , there is n't a great deal you can do to make yourself stand out from the crowd , but we did our best , washing and setting each other 's hair and sharing out what precious bits of makeup we owned . |
| 2 | Thinking these days includes other ways of ‘ treating ’ Cystitis — by prevention , which will involve you actively looking at your lifestyle and seeing what you can do to help yourself ( pages 12–13 ) . |
| 3 | I came to warn you what had happened in case there was anything you … anything you can do to help yourself . |
| 4 | However , there are things that you can do to help yourself , to help others around you , to actually get some sense of mastery over these , you know , what can be very overwhelming fears . |
| 5 | However , there is only so much you can do to protect yourself against the whims of the Almighty . |
| 6 | ‘ There are a lot of other things we can do to stop ourselves thinking about her ! |
| 7 | I do n't say this is totally going to crack rural crime but anything we can do to help ourselves to bring the numbers of criomes down , it 's always going to help . |
| 8 | Those that like the Macintosh System love it : those that do n't like it detest the idea of that mass of graphical software between them and their applications , between them and the processor : like the nervous flyer , they hate the feeling that they are not in control , that if something goes wrong , there is absolutely nothing they can do to save themselves . |
| 9 | The great virtue or the part-time holding in times of industrial depression is that it leaves the unemployed with things they can do to help themselves . |
| 10 | The massive publicity onslaught is being mounted by the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council , and aims to inform sufferers of what help is available and even what they can do to help themselves . |
| 11 | There is much that each of us can do to help ourselves — by not smoking , by eating sensibly , by taking regular exercise , and by not drinking too much . |
| 12 | There is much that each of us can do to help ourselves — by not smoking , by eating sensibly , by taking regular exercise , and by not drinking too much . |