Example sentences of "and [pron] can [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Emily and me can take care of the shop ; you have a rest while you can — you look quite washed out . |
| 2 | From a cotton town , my mother had a heightened awareness of fabric and weave , and I can date events by the clothes I wore as a child , and the material they were made of . |
| 3 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 4 | I can love my wife in the usual way and I can love Shinko in the unusual way ! |
| 5 | Daddy has gone in the Army and I can handle Mummy so here I am . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Nobody taught me , but my mind tells my fingers what to do , and I can make music . ’ |
| 7 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 8 | A dark figure kneels at my bedside and I can smell perfume . |
| 9 | And I can hold things here , really I can . |
| 10 | I said it 's okay I just erm you know , I do n't I 'll probably , I 'm fine on my own , I 've got things to do and I can watch T V and I |
| 11 | erm , so that if , if they then go to an appeal er , I was talking to this planning officer and I was saying that I think I 'll consult them , he said I do n't think you 'll need to he said , and of what you 've done so far is pretty good and I can get access to all the letters that have been written in , in objecting into the into the homes |
| 12 | And I can get Richard and and Sally interested |
| 13 | They always bid for funerals and I can remember folk on in being horrified at the idea that folk would put a notice in a window . |
| 14 | ‘ We had a nest of white sticks in a tree and I can remember others of our kind soaring high on the wind and then stooping from out of that same hot sky , down towards the surface of the lake , their stoop so fast that you could hear the winds riffling and racing in their outstretched wings . |
| 15 | And I can remember tenneyex telex coming through and we did our own er er signs in those days , you know , er advertising placards , it was red hot on the press . |
| 16 | And I can taste blood . |
| 17 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman and I can swap statistics quite soon and I look forward to it . |
| 18 | ‘ One of the reasons I do it , ’ he explains ‘ is because my wife and I can spend time alone together away from the family , feel young again ( they 're both in their early 40's ) , and have adventures . ’ |
| 19 | And I can mend things , on the whole , ’ said the honest boy . |
| 20 | I have no more pain , almost no bleeding and I can enjoy life normally again . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr Jardine would niver — and I can say niver — have tolerated the levitatious attitude you take to your wicketkeeper . ’ |
| 22 | It is a dramatic island viewed from the sea and I can understand Alexander Dumas choosing it as a setting for his novel The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 23 | I am good-humoured , adaptable and I can understand instructions . |
| 24 | Piper explained : ‘ I have already been written off by a lot of people and a lot of critics and I can understand Benn being favourite . |
| 25 | A door slams along the corridor and I can hear music coming from upstairs . |
| 26 | As Julia explains : ‘ I can differentiate between light and dark and I can hear voices , though not what 's being said , with my ‘ ears ’ in . ’ |
| 27 | But , yes — I read plays and I can see actors in the parts — I hope I can see what is suitable to their personalities . |
| 28 | The children 's room is below mine and I can see clothes strung from the ceiling , shoes flung beneath the bed , blankets cast aside . |
| 29 | Maybe if I walk long enough I 'll get to Scotland and I can see Marie . |
| 30 | Do you , do you happen to know , will this service give benefit advice as well , because the , the budget which introduced a , an allowance of a kind for , for child care , is actually quite complicated , and , and it 's kind of er , an amount of income which can be disallowed before Family Credits are calculated and it , it , it involves a new kind of benefits trap as well , and I can see people needing quite a lot of advice about how to get it , and , and when not to get it and so on . |