Example sentences of "people can [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The Saturn-Pluto ‘ square ’ of March 20 and October 9 will cast a shadow over coming months , making you highly aware of how much influence you can bring to bear and how circumstance and other people can block you .
2 To see the aura requires a certain amount of esoteric training ( unless you are a natural sensitive ) , but most people can feel it to a greater or lesser degree .
3 Keen-sighted people can distinguish them both with the naked eye .
4 A story which can help pupils to discuss the role of ritual , and the way in which other people can misconstrue it , is that of the little fox in the Legends of Moses .
5 How people can drink it for pleasure I do n't know .
6 And and where people can recognize me .
7 Where people can recognize me .
8 It suggests that there are universal human qualities , and that people can recognize them in Shakespeare 's dramas , over the centuries and through many cultural mediations .
9 I know , some people can wear it , some people ca n't .
10 Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case .
11 And for us to go forward that is the first major thing we need to do and I 'm appealing today that if people can give us two hours on Saturday morning or a Friday afternoon , we need people , we do n't need two people on a street corner cos we 've done it and it is it we do n't get the effect we want , because most people walk past us .
12 I do n't know the answer , for only the people can give it ; but I do know that it is our duty to ask them .
13 I can do that , probably a number of other people can do it too , but the vast majority would n't have the remotest idea what to listen for or know how it is done .
14 There is a tremendous myth about throwing knives — very few people can do it properly and it is extremely difficult to hit a moving target .
15 Very few people can do it .
16 I did that when I was seven and different people can do it at any time .
17 Yeah , but people can do it even in a little way
18 Repeatedly interviewing the same people can sensitise them to the research , and this may have unknown effects on their responses .
19 Other people can forget them almost entirely if their mind is fully absorbed and concentrating wholly on something else .
20 People can disappoint you .
21 People can smell it on you .
22 The value that your job is given by other people can make it seem worthwhile .
23 The calls of killer whales vary from group to group and these dialects are so distinct that people can tell them apart .
24 He said : ‘ In the days and months ahead we will expose all their broken promises , all their empty commitments so that the British people can hold them to account . ’
25 Basically it 's two things coming together and becoming more than their whole , you 've got two things two people working together producing more than what two people can produce it 's the relationship that produces that extra little bit more .
26 People can call him — no different .
27 ‘ They 're putting her in a cage so that people can see her .
28 Cos I 'm doing some mobile , well I 'm hoping to get some mobile around Ruddington before it opens and so people can see me a bit before .
29 We want to change the whole concept of how dance music is appreciated , so that people can see it for what it is .
30 You need something that can be changed every day as the number grows , somewhere people can see it every day .
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