Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Tom can bring it along after Mass on Sunday . |
| 2 | My cow-man can manage them alright on his own . ’ |
| 3 | A four-wheel-drive vehicle will be an essential , of course , and my husband can leave his car at the top on the main road when snow is forecast . |
| 4 | My registrar can take my clinic — it 's a small one — so I could be with you from three until four-thirty if you like . ’ |
| 5 | He said my father can have it , he can do , have it , I only want money for my charity , |
| 6 | My dog can make me laugh , shows me affection constantly , keeps me company , gives me something to cuddle and stroke , and keeps me fit . |
| 7 | My dad can hear you shouting ! |
| 8 | Fish are not capable of establishing a relationship with their owner in the same way as dogs and cats , but I 'm convinced that my Koi can distinguish me from other people approaching the pond . |
| 9 | But my Belly can witness you move the wrong Way . |
| 10 | Its relationship with the molecular " vehicles " which express it is a non-reciprocal one : its presence can explain theirs , but they can not explain it . |
| 11 | For the Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society , there is no exemption period if the claimant with their policies can prove they were covered during the time of the accident or sickness . |
| 12 | His connections have kept him in training because he showed plenty of ability on the gallops and their decision can pay its first fruits with a win today as he looks a cut above Debsy Do and Nellie Dean . |
| 13 | I think people realise that their faith can overcome their doubts . |
| 14 | Those of the Indus and Ganges dolphins even lack lenses , so that their eyes can tell them little more than the difference between light and darkness , between day and night . |
| 15 | Should they break this code of conduct , their association can strike them from the register and ban them from practising medicine . |
| 16 | The critic is not some simple custodian of these museum texts whose task it is to keep the displays polished so their readers can see them in clear unreflected light . |
| 17 | But under little understood conditions of environmental change , its offspring can lose their gills , developing into the land-dwelling adults . |
| 18 | This is to tell only part of the story however Anna is diligent in all her studies with a determination to do as well as possible , while her powers of expression are adequate she has a fine sense of initiative and within her limitations can organise her materials persuasively . |
| 19 | What about getting those children as they go out a voucher that their parents can bring them along to see a show at a reduced rate . |
| 20 | Most of the children coming into care under section 2 of the Child Care Act do so at the request of their parents , and their parents can take them home whenever they wish . |
| 21 | Planners in Sweden and India think their countries can meet their energy needs , cut emissions of greenhouse gases and get richer by the end of the century Debora MacKenzie |
| 22 | Planners in Sweden and India think their countries can meet their energy needs , cut emissions of greenhouse gases — and get richer — by the end of the century |
| 23 | New skills can increase personal satisfaction Women in particular are susceptible to believing that improving their appearance can help them reinvent themselves . |
| 24 | If Mr Hussein had the wit to get out of Kuwait before the Americans and their allies can push him out , the war would have lost its overriding purpose — and the coalition might at last have lost its cohesiveness . |
| 25 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
| 26 | Both films seem to ask if their heroes can get their innocence back . |
| 27 | These implement ANSI/CCITT standards and will enable public network operators and service providers to have end-to-end control of their networks while their customers can control their wide area network resources , even across the public network . |
| 28 | I say their contemplation can give no-one pleasure ; they are there because their absence would be resented by the average man who regards a large amount of futile display as in some way inseparable from the conditions of that well-to-do life to which he belongs or aspires to belong . |
| 29 | During that ten second or less dash for the line they will actually be using up oxygen faster than their bodies can take it in . |
| 30 | Primary nurses will frequently have to ‘ negotiate ’ and act as a ‘ disturbance handler ’ when problems arise , but their thorough knowledge of their patients can give them the confidence to do this . |