Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] can [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A rationale after a command which can obscure what is required and encourage the child to ask questions and side track , e.g. ‘ Please pick up your toys , you 've got a friend coming and I want your room to look tidy ’ . |
| 3 | Ask each other what one manageable action you can perform which will bring the other happiness . |
| 4 | In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description . |
| 5 | That was the er tells you what channels you can get what you pay for |
| 6 | Here is a simple exercise you can do which will help you to become aware of how your breathing should feel . |
| 7 | By sailing along behind someone you can act as a human video and when your partner has finished his run you can mimic what he was doing . |
| 8 | He runs ( 'If you can call what I do running ! ’ ) with Dark Peak Harriers ( 'It 's a good club — does n't take itself or anything else too seriously . ’ ) |
| 9 | If a taxpayer has two residences he can elect which of them is to be treated as his main residence ( s222(5) ) for the purpose of the exemption and notwithstanding the terms of the above concession the husband can avoid difficulty if he makes a positive election . |
| 10 | He is usually an old male who can anticipate which way the colobus will go and climbs a tree well ahead of them , so completing their encirclement . |
| 11 | The advantage , however , of first letting them improvise more freely in small groups is that with careful monitoring you can see what 's interesting them , what they want to explore in their drama . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In addition you can hear what they say and how they say it . |
| 14 | Anyway , looking back over the years I can imagine what that poor bastard at Smithfield felt . |
| 15 | Whereas in the classic Italian historical novel , Manzoni 's The Betrothed ( 1827 ) , much admired by Eco , the omniscience of the author consists in his ability to probe at will into the psychology of his characters and , at the same time , to link this to broad historical movements and even some sense of a providential ‘ plot ’ in history , in Eco it is closer to the power of the master craftsman who can make what he will with the materials to hand , and unmake it too . |
| 16 | They provide a reference point and by comparing our behaviour with the reference point we can tell what adjustments are required . |
| 17 | That 's the one that 's the one danger that I see , that instead of being led by the turnover of the product , we 're being led by the funding we can obtain which I think is a is a weakness in the system . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is because it is only the school and its daily managers who can assess what it can afford — and what it has to afford — to do in terms of staff time and money and because it is the school which has , in the end , to initiate any assessment of the type of community assistance which will provide its partners with the benefits they seek . |
| 20 | Although insulation and draught-proofing are the best ways to save money on heating bills , there are many other things you can do which , when combined , can make substantial savings . |
| 21 | There are all sorts of comparatively small changes you can make which will transform your kitchen 's looks out of all proportion to the time and expense . |
| 22 | Chris is the only person who can approve what ? |
| 23 | You can see why I was in such a bad mood Saturday cos if I 'd drunk that much Friday night you can imagine what sort of a hang over I had . |
| 24 | Thus , if we take the population as a whole we can ask what proportion of the variation in size is due to genetic variation and what proportion to environmental variation . |
| 25 | If they seriously believe that in the context of the present constitutional crisis between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom they can introduce what are crude and dangerous league tables into Scottish education — and do so by means of a single clause tacked on at the end of an English and Welsh Bill which is otherwise wholly irrelevant to Scotland — they have taken leave of their collective senses . |
| 26 | Mr Wilkie , who worked in the Royal Army Educational Corps for 17 years , said : ‘ In some ways I can understand what Grampian Enterprise is doing because these days everything seems to be down to numbers . |
| 27 | Many date Mrs Thatcher 's real loss of credibility with the public to her own appearance on Yes , Minister ; fanciful perhaps , but in a semi-literate age who can tell what apparently innocent excursion will not produce serious results ? |
| 28 | Its leaders and pastors have long been the only people who can say what they think ; its press , although censored , is freer than the state media and its synods and congresses are the only places where people can openly discuss the problems in the country . |
| 29 | With careful arrangement you can see what is happening in the next room ( with an open dividing door or glass panel ) or behind you or in the hall , even in the garden , thereby extending your range of vision and your range of information . |
| 30 | Imagine you have an office with large windows looking out over an open-plan office ; through these windows you can see what your subordinates are up to . |