Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I can tell from a half-hour 's converse with him that he 's in good hands . |
| 2 | I can confirm as a matter of fact that the Scottish National party did not join the convention , although some distinguished individuals , no doubt at some political disadvantage to themselves , were prepared to do so . |
| 3 | Er I 've been able just this week to set up a little er programme at er at work whereby er I have a list of all the newspapers and T Vs and radio stations on a file , and I can tap in a press release , press the button and it would fax them all one after the other , to the various interested bodies . |
| 4 | There is no way in which I can vote for a guillotine which so severely curtails debate in Committee . |
| 5 | ‘ I can do with a man of spirit about me . |
| 6 | The best I can do as a manager is a combination of threatening , cajoling and being nice to everyone who can help to give my act the best possible shot . |
| 7 | One of my greatest frustrations is having to tell my electors , in correspondence and personally , that there is nothing I can do about a proposal because a decision has already been taken somewhere else — albeit by ministers , one of whom is a Member of the House — that there is nothing that anyone can do because the decision has been taken outside these shores , so there is no point in writing to me . |
| 8 | ‘ I have it serviced when I can do without a car for the day , ’ he says . |
| 9 | ‘ I can do in a day what she does in a week , ’ she said , shaking her duster out of the window on to the roses below . |
| 10 | Hunt , who broke an ankle at the start of this season , said : ‘ This is a good opportunity for me to show what I can do after a bit of a difficult time . ’ |
| 11 | but he said , a Ford he said , I can break into a Ford without breaking any windows and start the ignition |
| 12 | I can sleep on a couch if they have n't twin beds … ’ |
| 13 | Sal continued working as a waitress in a cafe on the Commercial Road , but Charlie knew she could n't wait to find someone willing to marry her — whatever physical shape he was in — just as long as I can sleep in a room of my own , she explained . |
| 14 | In time these three will form a screen so that I can arrange for a complete change of scenery on either side . |
| 15 | Not much perhaps , but if you answer my questions I can arrange for a pardon to be sent down under the usual condition : that you abjure the realm . |
| 16 | ‘ You can take me to a hotel , somewhere I can stay for a couple of nights until the police can find the very sick person who sent that letter to me . ’ |
| 17 | If , now , you refuse me my conjugal rights , I can go to a lawyer ; I know something of law , after all , as I said . |
| 18 | I can go to a shop and buy something . |
| 19 | No , I can go to a machine dad . |
| 20 | Or I can go for a brand new what I 've had before , you know not the special edition |
| 21 | I can feel like a sort of gritting , |
| 22 | And if I have to , I can land on a stretch of roadway . |
| 23 | I mean , even I can manage on a good day . ’ |
| 24 | Will you let us out if I can swim across a lake full of pike ? " |
| 25 | I want to show I can succeed at a bigger club in the future and fulfil my footballing ambitions . |
| 26 | On the basis of her understanding , it appears that any artist in the USA who uses the conventions of the mass media in such a way as to produce a critique of the media ( and I can think of a good many ) is veritably a ‘ quasi-situationist ’ . |
| 27 | You can look forward to some sort of land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of a view and , let's face it , the mountain will still be there when you come back . |
| 28 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 29 | His cutaway heel is world-class stuff , and with a patent in the pipeline I can think of a number of major manufacturers who 'll be after him for a slice of the licensing action . |
| 30 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |