Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Sam can apparently do what the hell he likes , with as many women as he pleases ! ’ |
| 2 | I can perhaps anticipate what the Minister will say . |
| 3 | We seem to have a breed of unadventurous promoters who can only offer us the likes of Grooverider and Carl Cox , making it difficult for talented newcomers to get the break they deserve . |
| 4 | Many people think you can only do what the punchcard tells you to do but , being me , I always try to get as much as I can from them — even with a lace card I 'll try knitting it in different ways . |
| 5 | Local authorities can only do what the law explicitly allows ; all council powers come from Acts of Parliament . |
| 6 | A chronological table can only give us the bare outlines of a life : one asks three questions . |
| 7 | The " fundamental " principle of education is that the head can only take what the seat can take . |
| 8 | At a national level one can only imagine what the development consequences might be for countries with already declining or collapsing economies . |
| 9 | The Purchaser can only see what the Vendor makes available : it may not disclose everything . |
| 10 | Aye you see I can not tell you the right story , but when Mary Queen of Scots |
| 11 | I d I know that , there 's that phrase you know , we will never see his like again , I think we probably will , but it will be a very long time , and I can not tell you the infinite feeling of sadness erm , that I felt when I heard of his passing . |
| 12 | That 's right so you then go into the en suite room , well I can not tell you the trouble I 've had from the en suite ! |
| 13 | We can not tell who the members of such a union might be . |
| 14 | The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive . |
| 15 | So if you can not decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents — oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me ! |
| 16 | I can not think what the Riding , but not only the Riding , will be without him . |
| 17 | You can not , you can not give them the the national curriculum book ! |
| 18 | Perhaps by contemplating you will find something that is wrong in your proposition … dig the gold and look at the country , but we can not give you the country you ask for . |
| 19 | If they ca n't help you speak to the feed companies themselves , and if they can not give you the information you want do n't buy their feed , its as simple as that ! |
| 20 | I can not give you the exact quantities you should use , for it will vary from one water to another according to the carp population . |
| 21 | All this may seem like a put-off — but so many have died through lack of thought , facilities and impatience I can not give you the impression that they are going to be cheap and easy , quite the reverse ! |
| 22 | Thousands of years of philosophy can not give us the answers to these questions . |
| 23 | It is argued here , that economics can not show us the correct policy choice ( as some economists would appear to claim ) ; yet it may help us to avoid a wrong , or overly costly , policy choice . |
| 24 | Due to the constraints of the Trove system we can not show you the policies as they are actually printed . |
| 25 | But we can not smell what the dog can smell , nor interpret such scents , body postures and barks in the way our dog does . |
| 26 | As I increased Cleveland 's capital allocation from £2.9 million to £3.8 million , I can not accept what the hon. Gentleman says . |
| 27 | I can not envisage what the circumstances will be in 20 years ' time . |
| 28 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 29 | The very freedom from mass accountability which allows it to do so also makes it difficult for leaders to know what society is thinking : without mechanisms for making needs known and understood , Polish and Soviet leaders simply can not know what the consequences of a rise in food prices or of other policy shifts will be . |
| 30 | We can not know what the future will bring ; nor did he . |