Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [pers pn] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the passage of time , however , the owning institutions have themselves grown to the point where the costs and risks are something they can manage for themselves , at which point the freedom and other advantages of sole ownership have taken over . |
| 2 | ‘ And there will be nothing we can do to help them . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ At least there 'll be somebody I can speak to , ’ he thought to himself . |
| 4 | But if I am going to bring anybody in , then they will have to be somebody I can trust and live in this area . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We thought : there 's got to be something we can do with all that wood . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ There must be something we can do , ’ she offered . |
| 7 | ‘ If all of us parents pull together surely there must be something we can do to save our children suffering for so long . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ There must be something we can do . ’ |
| 9 | There must be something we can do . |
| 10 | Erm the er desire that I twelve conveys to encourage district councils to make special provision in their you know to emphasize high density employment in their city centres is understood , no quarrel with that , but if you ca n't , if you feel unable er at county level to be absolutely explicit , that a district would be free if it so chose , it might not choose to do so , if it so chose to make I twelve decisions that did n't come out of its I five , er they would n't have to come out of its I five allocations , unless you can be clear that they 're free to do that , erm it suggests to me sir that may be it 's I twelve that 's that 's getting in the way , erm and w that might well be something we can do without . |
| 11 | The rule is supposed to be something we can use in order to check whether the new sensation is also a pain . |
| 12 | There must be something we can use to get their interest . ’ |
| 13 | There must be something we can pick out if a difference in judgement is to be justified . |
| 14 | Alright , th the saying in the paper , they 're talking about stopping these big companies , keeping these little companies waiting there could be something they can do about that , but how long is it going to be before they do something ? |
| 15 | must be something they can do . |
| 16 | Gemma 's parents are less optimistic — their immediate target is that by the time she starts school next Easter , there will be something she can eat . |
| 17 | Even whilst a person is waiting to go to hospital there may be something you can do to help . |
| 18 | ‘ But there must be something you can do . ’ |
| 19 | So it 's got to be something you can relate to , and once the model gets too far removed from reality , he 'll switch off . |
| 20 | ‘ It may be something you can dismiss easily . |
| 21 | ‘ There must be something I can do . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It is a shame that we are being penalised for something which has been done by the football club , but there does not seem to be anything we can do about it . |
| 23 | Some , at least , of the graptolitic black shales are what we can recognize , with the hindsight of plate tectonic theory , as the deposits laid down of the edge of the continental shelf , in a truly oceanic environment . |
| 24 | They have to be concerned with inputs , because inputs are what they can control . |
| 25 | The questions you then have to tackle are what you can use it for and , even more important , what you should use it for . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do for her now and it 's House Full tonight . |
| 27 | We 're agreed , I think , that , ghastly though it is , there 's nothing we can do for that poor girl at the moment , and that Rita can go on for her . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've had numerous prison governors say to me , Yes , Conlon , we know you 're innocent , but there 's nothing we can do about it . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do but hang on here and wait for morning , ’ Lawler said to his wife , helping her onto her feet . |