Example sentences of "[conj] can [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the ‘ one every few years ’ , and Alfieri knows , or can predict what the outcome will be . |
| 2 | Nobody in this much bull-shitted century has achieved anything that can outlast what the men who laid out these stones did here . |
| 3 | There 's only one source that can give you the answer and it might be pointed our that their refusal to divulge this information might put the whole future of NATO at risk and that the individual ultimately responsible for the negative decision would be answerable directly to the president of the United States . |
| 4 | Er , I dare n't give away Rosemary and John , 'cos they 're the only two that can understand what the hell I 'm talking about . |
| 5 | In the light of this passage we can interpret one of Wordsworth 's gnomic sayings — ‘ The Child is Father of the Man ’ — and can understand what the attractive childhood episodes are doing in Books i and ii ; they are now seen to be similar ‘ spots of time … enshrined … for future restoration ’ . |