Example sentences of "say they can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they say they can do nothing . |
| 2 | Most women say they can cope with the idea of afternoons and evenings , holidays and all the rest ; but the thought of 9 am on a weekday when a couple look at each other and the husband says he 's got nothing to do fills many wives with horror . |
| 3 | The researchers say they can find no evidence of occupational exposure among medical staff or farmers , with the one known case of a farmer whose cattle had BSE developing CJD being regarded as chance , rather than direct transmission . |
| 4 | But after the fire and flood , the Wilson family , committed Christians , say they can find it in their hearts to forgive . |
| 5 | My friends are Liverpool fans and they say they can get me tickets for the KOP , but no way am I standing with a bunch of idiots . |
| 6 | People actually say they can remember the bits I mention in the songs and usually it 's completely not the case . |
| 7 | And then as I say they can write off for a pack and they get examples which cost them . |
| 8 | Clients want it and consultancies say they can provide it . |
| 9 | Crews of an RAF TriStar , which flies a twice-weekly service between the Falklands and Britain , say they can see the berg as they approach and leave the islands . |
| 10 | She says they can bite . |
| 11 | She says they can bite . |
| 12 | ‘ George Graham says they can go up a few gears for the replay , but we 'll wait and see . |
| 13 | ‘ Father says they can graft a new hand onto the nerve ends . |
| 14 | The auctioneer says they can fetch up to £20,000 , not bad when they were given away free originally . |
| 15 | And so you 're , er , have actually , you 're at or whatever , erm , it would be nice to think , and I 'm not exactly sure , my geography 's not that good at that particular part , but you , you sort of tend to look at it , and say , right if he 's in and out , and it 's ten o'clock and somebody says they can see him at eleven , you know , and there 's this tendency , to say , well erm , O K. Yes ? |
| 16 | He says they can get rid of the conditions that cause crime and that must more jobs , more hope and less despair . |
| 17 | ‘ It is said they can smell blood many kilometres away . ’ |
| 18 | So I 've said they can get stood on . |
| 19 | The council of research ministers for the European Communities ( EC ) today ( 29 April ) will discuss a proposed budget for the fourth Framework programme that matches what member countries have said they can afford . |
| 20 | But by when I 've just had a little crumb I 've said they can have the rest back . |
| 21 | Now what have they have they said they can hear you breathing more quickly or more deeply or rattly or |
| 22 | I suppose it 's their way of saying they can get at me whenever they want . |
| 23 | So it 's normally brought to us either by , the neighbours ringing in or somebody passing by saying they can hear screaming . |
| 24 | But Wilkes said they can offer something unique to their practice because of their direct experience of oppression . |
| 25 | I said to him about holding back not giving us our quota I said they can see we 're not doing now . . |
| 26 | The use of all three technical aids will improve the environmental quality of your system and reduce any free-swimming pathogens , but to say they can control the outbreak of diseases is being optimistic . |
| 27 | It 's easy for us as establishment people to say they can come to us . |
| 28 | Course members will sleep in a tent while I take a suite at the Inverlochy Castle Hotel , and at the end of the week everyone gets an official hand-written certificate to say they can put on gaiters without |
| 29 | It 's all very well to say they can appeal but that 's not easy |
| 30 | ‘ And Ianthe and Mr Stonebird ’ — ‘ Rupert ’ did not quite come out-'live so near that I dare say they can escort each other , ’ said Sophia . |