Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] can do [pron] " in BNC.

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1 If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself
2 If you want to phone Cobalt you can do it easily enough from London . ’
3 Careering between two extremes Described by one director as being ‘ an actress who can do anything ’ , Edith MacArthur talks to Colin Donald ‘ The play is all about charm …
4 She is back to grande dame mode having proved herself , as John MacGrath put it , ‘ an actress who can do anything ’ .
5 … I think the better you are at public relations the better you can do your job .
6 Here is a simple exercise you can do which will help you to become aware of how your breathing should feel .
7 I suppose if you 're a writer you can do it anywhere .
8 Of course you can do something .
9 ‘ Of course you can do it .
10 rain jacket for Annaleigh get the jacket done , get that in for Ian and something in for Claire and then when you go down town you can do it for me
11 ‘ The idea has always been at Knightshayes to blend if it 's possible — up to a point you can do it — the garden you 're making into its setting .
12 If you 've got children let them do the work survive the parents , erm as long as they 're the sensible sort who can do it and are n't going to fall out with parents and are going to be round .
13 Otherwise , for a jingle of coin we can do you a selection of gory romances , full o fine cadence and corpses , pirated from the Italian ; and it does n't take much to make a jingle — even a single coin has music in it .
14 The answer to such situations is to always say ‘ Yes , sir , of course we can do it , ’ and then put the telephone down , swear loudly and sit down and work how you are going to do it .
15 ‘ As Gielgud used to say , if you can play comedy you can do everything .
16 You know when Beecham was conducting it once a trumpeter came in early in one of the big silences : the kind of catastrophe you can do nothing about .
17 And , and within the rules of the game we can do nothing other than
18 Joey Beauchmap and Nick Cusack got the United goals … this was one of their best games of the season away lets hope they can do it at home …
19 And when they go out on a football field they can do something about it .
20 That 's the impression I 've been under but according to form you can do what you bloody want .
21 And anyway , Nigel , perhaps you 'll tell us how the Hell we can do anything effectively for Poland .
22 Danny it 's just occurred to me because we 're tape recording we 'd better just stop print just at the moment , we 'll just leave that off line we can do it later .
23 I put the kettle we can do it .
24 But actually there is one important thing they can do which would certainly improve world economic prospects : resist the temptation to put up new protectionist barriers , and push ahead with a speedy conclusion of the Uruguay round of trade talks .
25 This is what pisses me off so often you know , things like the halls of residence and stuff are there to help the students and they do n't , they just try and rip them off for every cent they can do it for .
26 When I first joined Fleetwood Mac , Mick ( Fleetwood ) kept trying to get me to use a pick , but fingerpicking is the only way I can do it . ’
27 I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm only going on the fact that I I tend to do everything on the cheap so I tend to get if I can find somebody who does photocopying I can do it then we 'll do it .
28 If you go into any of the high-street shops , and try and get something decent over a size 14 , there 's no way you can do it , unless you want to make your own clothes .
29 The only way you can do it at any particular point that 's the trouble .
30 trained and nevertheless it is a disturbing thing and the development of this County has to do , not only with businesses succeeding and also with people who are actually making those businesses work and the only way you can do it is by having people employed doing useful things .
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