Example sentences of "can [verb] about [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 | If it is correct that our trilobite lived above the sea bottom , actively swimming in the water , there are certain predictions we can make about its geological occurrence which can be tested by looking in the rocks . |
| 5 | Controversy in the medical profession still rages about the benefits of vitamins and dietary supplements and manufacturers are closely restricted in any claims they can make about what their various products can do . |
| 6 | If we say that characterising the topic framework is a means of making explicit some of the assumptions a speaker can make about his hearer 's knowledge , we are not talking about the total knowledge which the speaker believes he shares with his hearer . |
| 7 | You 've got to live in their world if you gon na affect that change , if you do n't live in their world and only live your own , if you do n't recognise , er , the problems that they 're making in terms of change happens , and those are the that you are going to give into the So yes , you can think about yourself and and others , and you can think about the reasons , and you think about the priorities , about planning , about structure level . |
| 8 | We can think about them , but not explain them , only know them . |
| 9 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 10 | So if you can think about it like laterally but we gon na have to work out an argument |
| 11 | Write down everything you can think about it . |
| 12 | You can think about it and it 's very useful to think about it as a as a distance measure in a sense . |
| 13 | So er she says well you can think about it for a fortnight er you see her daddy put out discos altogether because of the lies but she cos she gets nervous because when she 's telling a lie to you she 'll go red |
| 14 | We can think about it after Christmas . |
| 15 | Twenty years later he could still recall the event : ‘ I can think about my loyal dog buried in the snow , ’ ( Death Of A Lady 's Man ) . |
| 16 | We can think about your piano tomorrow . ’ |
| 17 | In fact , he can joke about it , saying : ‘ I do n't think I 'll make Slimmer-of-the-Year because there is n't that much I need to lose . |
| 18 | These days we can joke about it , ask him to turn people into toads . |
| 19 | He can joke about it . |
| 20 | Yet there is a place for drinks and slippers , and many younger and older couples can know about their mutual ordinariness so that they do not have to strive , posture or compete ; and yet they still keep a specialness and excitement in each other alive . |
| 21 | We can know far more about a fictional character than we can about another human , even more than we can know about ourselves . |
| 22 | Alternatively , quote someone else in a position of authority who can speak about you . |
| 23 | M My Lords , first of all the there are a number of reports out now very erm good reports that do encourage primary schools to look and exploit the specialisms of the teachers on their staff and that would cover of course people who have a specialism in teaching this subject and it is also true , sadly in the case of some schools who wo n't allow er people who are specialists in the subject and can speak about it with authority for example er local vicars and priests and , and faith healers who can come in help in a school , but where those schools do ex exploit the expertise in the community , the school is enriched by that . |
| 24 | Indeed , in my experience many doctors welcome , and benefit from , the interest and advice other informed people can give about their patients , this often enhancing the accuracy of their diagnosis . |
| 25 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 26 | What you can do about them is another matter which we shall deal with . |
| 27 | And perhaps , what we can do about them ? |
| 28 | Joyriders are a real hazard in and around Scotswood Road , and there seems to be very little that people can do about them , other than give warnings and make arrests . |
| 29 | When these things hit you there 's not much you can do about them . ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps some hon. Members will be quite content to say to their constituents that they understand their problems and sympathise , but that there is nothing that they can do about them as the matter is out of their hands . |