Example sentences of "[adv] we can [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I said , oh well if I do n't hear from you I 'll ring you again and perhaps we can arrange something . |
| 2 | Perhaps we can find something of both in the process . |
| 3 | but she could , I du n no perhaps we can work something out , I du n no , er failing that we 'd have to come out to her house |
| 4 | well if there 's , if there 's not many people sitting in the day room , perhaps we can pinch one , all the stools seem to be taken there are n't many spare in there , can we pinch a couple of chairs please ? |
| 5 | Surely you can tap the chairman for a few quid so we can buy someone half-decent . |
| 6 | So we can find something by D U. |
| 7 | Together we can do something beautiful for God . ’ |
| 8 | Together we can do anything . ’ |
| 9 | But already we can see one most unexpected and surprising consequence of this : if what we may call the phallic or Oedipal trauma came first in human cultural history and was the original event from which all else flowed , then in terms of individual psychosexual development it follows last , preceded by the oral stage whose cultural equivalent succeeded it ! |
| 10 | And the sooner we can find one the better . " |
| 11 | Now we can offer something more , though . |
| 12 | But now we can have one painted . |
| 13 | Now we can get something that would be half affordable . |
| 14 | So now we can hear everything they say and we know where they are on the plane ! ’ |
| 15 | Well we can do plenty of that . |
| 16 | Erm , surely we can find something , director of consumer protection or director of consumer |
| 17 | if you can make arrangements maybe we can sort something out between us |
| 18 | And you can see the , you can see the way in which it can be applied , if we know , erm , that there are erm , too many people of a certain age , and too few jobs , then maybe we can do something about it . |
| 19 | A taxation system in place which would be fair , which means that the people in the big houses pay more , then we can do something about , maybe making the local people er pay more and reducing central taxes , reducing the VAT , it 's not gon na be quick but |
| 20 | Until there 's a change of government policy , then we can do nothing about it . |
| 21 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |