Example sentences of "that [pron] can [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever possible , Mrs. Ayliffe accompanied her husband on his travels and acted as his interpreter , for he steadfastly refused to speak and simultaneously to interpret , maintaining that no-one can do one without detriment to the other . |
| 2 | Oh yeah I think so , I do n't think that I can make anything of it , I 'll take that box to school because they might be doing a |
| 3 | You must understand that I can do nothing further for you . |
| 4 | ‘ But I do not flatter myself that I can do anything about them . |
| 5 | Erm here I 've got some formulae calculating production figures er we 've got different quarters formulae found are somewhat similar er there 's a so that I can copy one to any of the other adjacent cells outside will work I do n't have to edit the formula or do anything to it soon as I copy it , it 's alright for that cell . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never wanted anyone this much — to the extent that I can disregard everything I know about you and believe about myself … |
| 7 | There is , in fact , a way that I can prove something was wrong . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ What I 'm saying is that I can provide something that you can not — a proper family set-up for Kirsty to grow up in . |
| 9 | I like adaptability — that 's the reason I always keep my hair long , so that I can get lots of different looks with it up or down . |
| 10 | And give me a pair of tongs so that I can take one out of the water at a time . ’ |
| 11 | The slighted Samaritan can , of course , reply on her own behalf that she does care about suffering in general but that she cares much more about its manifestations that she can do something about and that involve her personally . |
| 12 | When she has finished what she is doing for the moment , she walks on briskly , her head making little bird-like movements , so that she can see everything that she passes . |
| 13 | She is blind , so each contestant must tell her their adventures in great detail , so that she can see everything clearly in her mind 's eye . |
| 14 | f ) RAFFLE : ( ) is in charge of the raffle — please let her know if you have a gift , or money will be welcome so that she can purchase something . |
| 15 | What do we say of our driver , who was so preoccupied with her molars , that she can recall nothing of her trip ? |
| 16 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 17 | but the idea is to get their ideas so that you can tell somebody else how you do it on your side then you can tell somebody else |
| 18 | Carrying a rape alarm will certainly give you confidence that you can do something if you are attacked . |
| 19 | Home in on a cause that you can do something about . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't worry , you 'll feel on top of the world afterwards and believe that you can do anything , ’ was the message from Mr Howe , 56 , who developed heart trouble while coaching England through their ill-fated 1988 European Championship campaign . |
| 21 | One day you will wake up ( it may be a nice sunny Sunday morning ) and you will luxuriate in the fact that you can do anything that you want to do — anything that takes your fancy — and there is no one else to consider . |
| 22 | And yet she claims that she is not a very gifted person , adhering to her philosophy that you can do anything if you want to enough . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't see that you can do anything . |
| 24 | So that you can do anything . |
| 25 | He has ‘ not been inclined ’ to return to company work since : ‘ The great thing here is that you can do anything film , radio , theatre , television . |
| 26 | The reason why the Nazis persecuted the Jews was so that people would forget their own problems ; perhaps the reason you do this is so that you can blame someone else for your failings ? |
| 27 | In this exercise you will prove to yourself that you can invent something quite new , a change which perhaps connects with your own life but is seen from the outside , happening to someone else . |
| 28 | It is the same with the notion that you can bring everybody up to the average . |
| 29 | I mean , you 've got to bear in mind that God created the , the heavens and , and the earth and any human that 's er in God 's memory who 's is deceased out the way , if you 've got enough faith , you can believe that you can bring anything back |
| 30 | It 's a much more difficult thing now to establish a serious repertoire with a serious institution and a logically clear and connected recording plan , so that you can build something . |