Example sentences of "can [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt . |
| 2 | We can laugh about it now , ca n't we , darling ? |
| 3 | We can laugh about it now . |
| 4 | Tha can laugh at me — but dunna want ter ma'e me feel sma' ! |
| 5 | And the characters are so stupid you can laugh at them . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If you can laugh at yourself and recognise your own folly it is a healthy sign . ’ |
| 7 | I have learned to trust people who can laugh at themselves . |
| 8 | who can laugh at themselves ( why not ? everyone else does ) |
| 9 | ‘ It 's great , because we can laugh at ourselves here , ’ says one club regular . |
| 10 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 11 | We work well together , I respect him as a professional , I can laugh at his jokes and I can even accept that his genius probably entitles him to live by a set of standards most of us do n't even recognise as standards — but that 's it ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ So they can laugh at us when we fall flat on our noses . |
| 13 | Portia appears indeed in Act four to be just in her defence of Antonio , and no one can comment on her choice of suitor in Act three , for surely it was the suitors ' luck and character that were the key to her , or so it seemed . |
| 14 | General statements like ‘ You are a good boy ’ , ‘ That 's really nice ’ , ‘ That 's right ’ can comment on what the child has just done . |
| 15 | * Get into the habit of standing back from your essay so that you can comment on it for the benefit of your reader ( see p. 104 ) . |
| 16 | I was thinking of writing to TSB and the programme desk tomorrow advertising our group , I 'll send a draft letter so you can comment on it . |
| 17 | I think Chairman , in a sense , some of the items are sufficiently explicit for people to say well I know what 's being proposed , I can comment on it . |
| 18 | It is simple to use and so easy to learn that anyone can weave with it . |
| 19 | And another five so that you can spunk in my mouth . |
| 20 | There are a number of tests you can conduct in your studio which will reveal one sheet 's attributes over another — in terms of absorbency , texture , weight and colour . |
| 21 | This is a lucky time to focus on what you can make of yourself . |
| 22 | See what you can make of me . ’ |
| 23 | See what you can make of me . |
| 24 | Corporate benefactors are heavily circumscribed in the uses they can make of their link to the museum . |
| 25 | Let's see what we can make of ourselves , eh ? ’ |
| 26 | The circumstances will dictate how much you can make of it from the standpoint of good video . |
| 27 | But this is … you can make of it what you like , ca n't you ? ’ |
| 28 | See what you can make of it and we 'll discuss it later . |
| 29 | However , I will ask my colleagues to consider again the hon. Gentleman 's point to see what substance we can make of it . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll cable it straight to George and see what he can make of it . |