Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't want to go to the police , because you 're afraid they 'll simply get involved in another siege — if you can make them believe you in time , which seems doubtful . |
| 2 | He can make you believe you are the only woman on earth for him , and only a Frenchman out of all the men in the world could look at me and tell me to my face that I am beautiful . |
| 3 | But the converse is that if you can make it work you 'll have bought a fair lease on a prime site that you could never have afforded in the ordinary way . |
| 4 | And as I said , you can use these techniques with your team , or you can adapt them to use them on your own , because you do n't always have somebody to help you . |
| 5 | There will be someone on the staff at your antenatal clinic who can explain what benefits you can claim . |
| 6 | But you can introduce whatever treasures you like — the scope is endless . |
| 7 | ‘ I can trust you to deliver it unread ? ’ |
| 8 | He also talks to him about the possible relationship between stress , smoking , poor dietary habits , alcohol and the incidence of peptic ulcers so that Peter understands what is happening and can consider what changes he might make in his lifestyle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I can feel you want me , Caroline . ’ |
| 12 | Of course , you 'll have to tell Charlie , but by the time you 're free , Emma will be of age , such an age that he can do nothing to hold her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Okay so try if you can can do you think you can do that , you can try to take those four reactions out of one group and see how related they are ? |
| 15 | JEWKES : He is my master and if he bids me do anything I can do I think I ought to do it and let him who has power to command me look to the lawfulness of it . |
| 16 | If I can do anything to help you only have to ask . ’ |
| 17 | And er , and , and yo you can do it to keep it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I can bring her to meet you tomorrow , ’ said Mr Bumble . |
| 20 | ‘ Then if you 're ready , shall we move , as I do n't imagine you can bring yourself to offer me a drink before we go ? ’ |
| 21 | We 're not sure whether you can choose which bit you get for your £30 … |
| 22 | I do n't know her name but I can remember him saying it . |
| 23 | I can remember you telling her . |
| 24 | I do n't suppose you can remember who told you that ? |
| 25 | There used to be some nice serials for They used to be thrilling you know , er I can remember I wish they 'd show them now They used to be what we used to call , The voice on the wire and then there was another serial called , Peggo the Ring . |
| 26 | Parveen 's colleagues say they would n't have dared to retaliate , although they can understand what drove her to do so . |
| 27 | I 've always been fascinated by bag ladies who choose to live on the street- I 've come to the point in my life where I can understand what makes them drop out . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | but until it 's it 's the same with any subject you know until you know what you 're doing until you can tie it down to something physical and until you can understand I mean you always understand by similarities |
| 30 | Yeah , and there 's a little side pocket in there as well you can keep I suppose you keep leads and things like that in it as well . |