Example sentences of "they can [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they can change me from one to another by using hormones , they can now give me the male hormones and then I 've got everything I want . ’ |
| 2 | They 'll improve on it , or they might adapt it , see if they can change it in some way in that case , and they 'll act in a cohesive way . |
| 3 | A couple of guys think they can stake it out and wait for me , rub their filthy fingers on my clothes , piss in my bathroom , and I 'm supposed to ignore it . |
| 4 | ‘ Against the anarchists , and the Communists , that is the only way they can portray us . |
| 5 | If you 've got tetanus , to stop you breaking your back with these muscle contractions , so that they can nurse you adequately , they inject you with this stuff and you are paralysed until the tetanus has been fought off . |
| 6 | Once the children are familiar with this method of working they can manipulate it for themselves — e.g. the performers can ask for advice whenever they need it ; the performers can " Tag " an adviser to take over from them . |
| 7 | Those new-age prats think they can flush me out with a bit of colonic irrigation . |
| 8 | ‘ If they know what we 're planning , they can out-manoeuvre us . |
| 9 | Any other and I put diabetes in there asthma is an illness which erm you may come across , it 's the clogging up , it 's something irri irritates the tubes , the windpipe and the bronchial tube and the person can not draw air in , well they can draw it in but they ca n't get it out and they 're , and they 're trying very hard and the noise , has anybody heard anybody with an asthma attack ? |
| 10 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 11 | ‘ And they can renew it , ’ she says . |
| 12 | Platt said : ‘ If Birmingham can get at them , they can knock them out of their stride because Bari will not be used to this sort of opposition . ’ |
| 13 | they can fix it ca n't they ? |
| 14 | He or she is trying to get a very clear picture of what you can do so that they can place you accurately and not send you on too many pointless interviews . |
| 15 | Mark James , Jim Payne , David Gilford and Paul Broadhurst think they can beat him this week as does Gordon Brand jun who was joint second with Ireland 's David Faherty in Valencia . |
| 16 | They think they can beat me . |
| 17 | But they can beat me to it every time . |
| 18 | If not appeased with sufficient food , the Ogres attack the adventurers if they think that they can beat them . |
| 19 | An exhibitor 's put an exhibit up and everyone thinks they can beat it but when they 've gone and left their the exhibitors gone back and put a new lot up … things like that happen . |
| 20 | It was Batuan who explained that , although only the Gods can own land , they can lend it to man for his temporary use . |
| 21 | So if they can keep you breathing and get your body to produce the necessary antibodies , then they can cure you . |
| 22 | They can face it , which they would n't do before . |
| 23 | Kersey said : ‘ They 're doing all they can but there 's really no way they can fit us in here for any length of time . |
| 24 | I mean when people come , see who knows any good games , and they can organize them . |
| 25 | In fact , in interviews , a quick reference to the home town frequently serves them as well as a rhetorical trick : by declaring their provinciality , they can remind you just how surprised they are to be attracting so much attention all of a sudden . |
| 26 | They 're going to keep finding fault with your work , and giving you warnings , so they can sack you . |
| 27 | Oh they can sack you on the works . |
| 28 | But if you are a shareholder they can sack you . |
| 29 | And why , they do n't need to think about it , they can talk you out of it , they only got ta go ! |
| 30 | She said , ‘ I only hope they can leave you alone for one night . ’ |