Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can trust you to deliver it unread ? ’ |
| 2 | If you have picked all the answers in this section you are the sort of person who can watch somebody do it and then pick it up in a flash — or read the handbook and you 're away . |
| 3 | I mean normally I do n't bother with the tokens , I mean I Anyway I paid the cheque and I said to Peter I said oh by the way what about me tokens for me for me toy I said if I get a free one of them I can give it to give it to the grandchildren . |
| 4 | I have noticed that even people who claim that everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road . |
| 5 | And er , and , and yo you can do it to keep it . |
| 6 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 7 | I do n't know her name but I can remember him saying it . |
| 8 | Thing is that he 's in er he 's in such a pickle , he 's doing what I can understand him doing it cos I 'd do it , he 's kind of just putting it off having to sort it out . |
| 9 | Well that 's all right I 'll I can provide somebody to run it and |
| 10 | Flaubert 's Dictionary offers a course in irony : from entry to entry , you can see him applying it in various thicknesses , like a cross-Channel painter darkening the sky with another wash . |
| 11 | You can see them thinking it . |
| 12 | As long as you can see them doing it , ma chère . ’ |
| 13 | We can see who got it first |
| 14 | I can see he made it tough for you . ’ |
| 15 | With the , there 's the beach as you can see I mean it 's |
| 16 | I , I know as you can see I think it 's very useful each item |
| 17 | Well Fred 's got my Graham Thomas because it really is a superb rose but as well as that I would go for hybrid musk and I think of all the hybrid musk , my favourite is Felicia because of that silvery pink , lovely double shaped flower and that is very very heavily scented and I would have to have the bourbon rose the th the double white creamy white bourbon rose , if , you could almost eat that , that wo n't get more than about six foot and you can prune it to keep it in shape a bit if it begins to get too straggly . |
| 18 | The only way you can stop yourself drinking it is to lecture the world about how bad it is . |
| 19 | You 'll carry your humiliation — since nothing can stop you seeing it so — in quietness and with a good grace , as other men have had to learn to do before you . |
| 20 | Most of them do n't show it but you can set it to show it . |
| 21 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 22 | you can take it take it home . |
| 23 | Yeah alright yeah I mean if your car 's in you can take mine do it a bit of good . |
| 24 | ‘ You can hear him chewing it . |
| 25 | I can hear him saying it now as only he could , turning my name into an insult . ’ |
| 26 | Bet the bloke listening to this can hear it smell it . |
| 27 | You can get I mean , it 's not connected up but you can have er you can have it connected it up to the ra , to the radio and get concerts through the stere |
| 28 | You can tell they like it because they tell you so . |
| 29 | And I said Mark 's here so that he can switch it switch it off at nights . |
| 30 | If you 're stuck in some of these behavioural ruts then you can allow yourself to give it up . |