Example sentences of "can come [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | You can come round for a meal , or something … . |
2 | ‘ You can come through to the kitchen and help me make the tea , ’ Miss Honey said , and she led the way along the tunnel into the kitchen — that is if you could call it a kitchen . |
3 | The oil companies can come through with the fuel , but it 'll cost more . |
4 | Dyspnoea ; they wake from sleep with a sense of suffocation , a sense of choking which can come on in the first sleep , a sense of strangulation when lying and especially when anything is around the neck ; neck is very sensitive to touch . |
5 | say right , yeah Freddy Mercury you can come up on the stage , do n't you think ? |
6 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
7 | Grayling reckons that he has about another two years of research to do before he can come up with a conclusive report . |
8 | It is quite possible to use your own system of bar codes if you can come up with a suitable application . |
9 | Ask yourself whether the other facts are consistent with this explanation , and see whether you can come up with a pattern of events which makes sense in terms of ordinary human nature . |
10 | Unless Mr Aznar can come up with a convincing exposition of his economic policies , he could see his lead slip away once again . |
11 | ‘ So if you can come up with a way of going down there , past the guards , up to the house , into a room or two , and being left alone for a couple of minutes while I secure the devices — OK , you 've got what you want . ’ |
12 | Unless someone can come up with a better answer . |
13 | There is n't a back door and I doubt whether even you with that charmed life of yours can come up with a way out of this one . ’ |
14 | The point I really want to make is that if somebody can come up with a hairpiece that really looks real , I think people may consider wearing them |
15 | Now y'know you can come up with a description of that as an ellipse but in exactly the same shape , in a slightly different context , yeah , you know it 's actually circular and it 's a hoop and your perception of the object is different . |
16 | If you can come up with an interesting band ‘ logo ’ or visual image , that can be a cheap way of self-promotion on stickers and badges . |
17 | He has a useful pedigree in the Birmingham League , can come up with an awkward slanted delivery and hopes to be around at Edgbaston next season . |
18 | The vertical ramp will be made to the same dimensions as Southsea 's , as long as they can come up with the money to make it . |
19 | I mean if you can come up with the witnesses that are prepared to stick their head in the noose and say that . |
20 | ‘ If I can come up with the names then I will take that to the chairman or whoever is in charge to try and get the backing I need to sign them . ’ |
21 | Mr Stott went on : ‘ Investigative journalism like this has proved that no Minister , however powerful , however rich , however threatening he might be , can come up against a newspaper that is prepared to tell the truth . |
22 | Er and the other thing of course would be the er very important aspect of er whether I think you can come over on the telephone right . |
23 | There is no general evidence as yet to link second home ownership with house price increases ( de Vane 1975 ) , but in local instances this has undoubtedly happened on a property-for-property basis , and it is easy to be convinced that dire housing consequences can come about for the ‘ traditional ’ rural population . |
24 | But the thing that I reflected on was here we were , into our third bombing year , and the mighty Eighth Air Force had come to our aid over thousands of miles of land and 2,000 miles plus of sea ; and they can come down through the clouds and land almost within sight of the place they were making for , with no navigation aids at all . |
25 | Ask if you can come down for a day or two . |
26 | ‘ You can come down for a nice sit in me kitchen , ’ said Mrs Beavis . |
27 | Well he can er , he can come down to the original reduced figure . |
28 | but I said to him , I 'll go and buy vinyl and we can come back into the same position , and he ai n't no good at sticking vinyl up , I always go round with a bloody |
29 | well but the important thing is she 's engaged to be married I would reckon by the time she 's about twenty-six she 'll be looking for time out to have a family but by that time hopefully she 's and when she 's thirty-two or thirty-three can come back into the business and say I 've got a and the door opens that much more easily |
30 | County Durham 's old folk have a possible means of ensuring greater attention from the council , however : should reincarnation occur , they can come back as a dog in a drain . |