Example sentences of "can do [pron] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrying a rape alarm will certainly give you confidence that you can do something if you are attacked . |
| 2 | You can do them before you go up . |
| 3 | I can do them before I go out . |
| 4 | Once the baby is born , try to share as much of the care as possible ; he can do everything except breastfeed . |
| 5 | Balaam can do nothing but pronounce God 's own words of blessing upon them , while Balak grows ever more frustrated and angry . |
| 6 | Two strictly rational players , each of whom assumes that the other is strictly rational , can do nothing but defect if they both know how many rounds the game is destined to run . |
| 7 | This failure to reach a public consensus can do nothing but damage for the profession . |
| 8 | The Critiques can do nothing but proliferate extravagantly into the writing of a perpetual process of deferral . |
| 9 | ‘ Sure there 's only me that can do nothing but lie here and pray for all of you . ’ |
| 10 | The traders who trade around it can do nothing but benefit from the new multi-storey car park with 1,600 spaces . |
| 11 | To summarise , it would appear that rugby in Ulster is becoming more and more insular which can do nothing but harm in the development of the game here . |
| 12 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 13 | And if you read the report , you can do nothing but agree . |
| 14 | MANY thanks for the excellent series of articles on the proposed Sports Museum they put the situation accurately and can do nothing but help our cause . |
| 15 | He said the RSSPCC would unconditionally oppose the programme ‘ on the simple principle that this can do nothing except prolong the distress and damage of the children , ’ regardless of the rights or wrongs of the authorities ' handling of the case . |
| 16 | Since he can do nothing unless I write it down I think that before I light this last cigarette of mine I will let him go into the cottage . |
| 17 | ‘ Personally I can do nothing because I have no money myself at all . ’ |
| 18 | Personally I can do nothing because I have no money at all . ’ |
| 19 | Personally , I can do nothing because I have no money myself at all . ’ |
| 20 | " I can do nothing until you are there " ( 19:22 ) . |
| 21 | It can do anything except think . |
| 22 | You feel you are standing up straight for the first time in your life ; you can do anything while this feeling lasts , you can take on the world . |
| 23 | ‘ After all , you can do anything if you try hard enough . ’ |
| 24 | Anyone can do anything if they 've got what it takes . ’ |
| 25 | She is a great believer in persistence : ‘ I believe anyone can do anything if they really want to enough . |
| 26 | And yet she claims that she is not a very gifted person , adhering to her philosophy that you can do anything if you want to enough . |
| 27 | You can do anything if you try you know . |
| 28 | Everybody else can do it except for you . |
| 29 | They can do it while they 're waiting , could n't they . |
| 30 | On the other hand , you 'll never know if you can do it till you try . |