Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm off now , ’ he continued , ‘ ter meet yer Mum , so when yer 've cleared up the table yer can get ter bed . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Look lady , for what other people pay for a one-way ticket to Chicago , you can travel anywhere Delta flies for a month . ’ |
| 3 | You can exercise upwards pressure , er , no no organisation can stand alone . |
| 4 | We 've seen a very controlled and steady growth over the thirteen years that we 've been in business and I think as you can see there year on year we have consistently increased turnover and increased profitability . |
| 5 | No book or course of lectures can substitute for experience , but as you learn the vernacular and gain confidence in your practical ability , you can derive both inspiration and a sense of direction through reading the works of wise men . |
| 6 | But you can take home assessment a step further with a thorough post-mortem of your old shoes . |
| 7 | In the absence of adequate bus production capacity in the United Kingdom , we can face only danger in terms of the future bus market . |
| 8 | Now if we can take away tat excess oxygen that 's being produced , it 'll start going again . |
| 9 | Will my right hon. Friend accept that no hon. Member on this side of the House and , if they can leave aside party politicking for a moment , no hon. Member on the Opposition Benches , would believe that my right hon. Friend was capable of flouting the law — — as has been suggested , either in his personal capacity , or , still less , as a holder of one of the great offices of State ? |
| 10 | More interesting is the discovery that while You is the stylistically unmarked form , more matter-of-fact , ‘ not impolite ’ or ‘ not informal ’ , Thou can express both intimacy and anger , or indeed any increase in the emotional tone of a conversation . |
| 11 | It is perhaps ironic that , having changed my mind , I am now trying to convince other physicists that there was in fact no singularity at the beginning of the universe — as we shall see later , it can disappear once quantum effects are taken into account . |
| 12 | ‘ Meaning ’ is a slippery term , since it can cover both sense and reference . |
| 13 | However successful British Coal is in the future in building on its outstanding success in recent years and improving productivity , one of its basic problems is that it can sell only coal . |
| 14 | Digitalk Inc , Los Angeles is now shipping the 32-bit version of its object-oriented Smalltalk/V development environment for OS/2 2.0 , enabling users to create Smalltalk/V applications that are up to 100% faster and 50% smaller than 16-bit OS/2 applications : it can call both 16-bit and 32-bit Dynamic Link Libraries , adds a debugger with enhanced single-stepping capability , improved support for bit maps , double-byte character set characters in Smalltalk/V code , and support for OS/2 's common dialogue boxes ; it costs a swinging $1,000 . |
| 15 | If matters are simplified for him by assuming that he can move only north , south , east or west , and excluding the possibility that he might collapse on the spot , can you visualize the path he would follow ? |
| 16 | He can find only delusion , tyranny or demagoguery among the various heads of state and assembled representatives . |