Example sentences of "[conj] we can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps in part a matter of date which makes Dornford Yates 's novels seem high-flown and absurd to us where we can accommodate ourselves to the formalities of Anthony Hope 's Ruritania . |
| 2 | We need interest rate cuts and we need them now in our pockets where we can feel them . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't go beyond where we can reach you , ’ George warned him . |
| 4 | History , for Nicol , is not the simple matter that it seems for Crichton-Smith , ‘ because afterwards is where we live , where we can resolve what happened , according to one , according to another ’ . |
| 5 | The sun-and-moon chart hangs on the kitchen cupboard , where we can consult it . |
| 6 | Well we 'll probably find out now let's er go straight over to Filbert Street where we can join our commentators Alan Parry and Ron Atkinson . |
| 7 | Sir , we ought to have them nearby us , where we can see what they 're up to … where they ca n't betray us without destroying themselves as well . |
| 8 | ‘ Let's keep the East River where we can see it . ’ |
| 9 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 10 | A wilderness is a place of contrast , where our own rules and values for living can be challenged , where we can learn something about humility and the inventive resilience of unmanaged nature . |
| 11 | ‘ They were interested in everything they saw and were told , and obviously identified many areas where we can provide them with advice and help , ’ said Hunterston Station Chemist Peter Young who was one of their hosts . |
| 12 | The fountains in the Piazza Navona , and then the Fontana di Trevi , and the Campo de ’ Fiori where we can buy what we 'll need for our picnic — ’ |
| 13 | Some of the more progressive employers are now sending their staff on regular visits to us here at Champneys Health Resort , where we can teach them the skills of stress management . |
| 14 | ‘ Your daughter — ’ this was said like an accusation — ‘ has agreed to go into a psychiatric hospital for a while , where we can assess her properly . |
| 15 | Or we can do it the other way round , it does n't matter . |
| 16 | But he 's also saying is n't he at the end of this paragraph , or he 's implying that th this is this revolution is not happening because we the communists are making it happen , it is happening and we need to react to it and somehow we 've therefore got a choice , we can either trail behind or we can lead it . |
| 17 | Or we can treat them as victims of an insurable risk . |
| 18 | ‘ You can unpack now or we can show you round the premises first . |
| 19 | Or we can reform our own private health care system , which still gives us , for all its flaws , the best health care in the world . |
| 20 | You can either walk , or we can freeze you where you stand and ship you back in a refrigerator . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Or we can charge them , and let a court try and sort it out . |
| 22 | We , if you comes and gives evidence against us , then we can either show that he 's incorrect in a substantive way , or we can attack his credibility . |
| 23 | We can assume it in exactly the form stated above or we can relax it to the extent of saying that any influence of A upon B must not propagate between them faster than the velocity of light . |
| 24 | We can play a role in developing Europe or we can turn our backs on the Community . |
| 25 | Erm well either that or we can slip it in at quarter past five , how about that ? |
| 26 | Although we can state what percentage of total population the older age groups currently represent , it is not reliable to quote future percentages ; such predictions should be treated with the utmost caution . |
| 27 | ‘ Although we can use our reaction to lead us to it . ’ |
| 28 | If you know of anyone interested in training , please let us know so that we can send them the details . |
| 29 | After much deliberation by the judges , the winners of the best-named team was ‘ Teenagers Under Stress ’ ( if any of you teenagers are reading this can you please ring in with your address so that we can send you your prizes ) and the winners of the best-dressed team were ‘ Five Prunes Named Joe ’ . |
| 30 | Slowly , so that we can watch her face . |