Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] can [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you think I can watch another woman become your bride ? |
| 2 | ‘ Do you think I can have some peace now ? ’ he asked , sweetly . |
| 3 | If he thinks I can stand another night in that car , he 's even madder than I thought . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You say you can remember that photograph being taken . |
| 5 | So I 've got some bleaching yeah smell you can smell that bleach . |
| 6 | His shoulders suggest he can paddle all day . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Boulez has been associated with the project from the very first days so I say he can consider this house his home . |
| 8 | I hope I can get plain sewing work enough where I need not spoil my fingers , but if I ca n't , I hope to mae my hands as red as blood pudding and as hard as a beechen trencher to accommodate them to my condition . |
| 9 | While most experts believe the best way to enjoy a good malt is neat or with a drop of water to release the flavour , Allan Schiach says you can add any mixer you like — even a cola . |
| 10 | I hope you can explain this mystery to me . |
| 11 | If you are still unhappy with the reply you receive you can obtain local advice from a Post Office Advisory Committee , whose address is in the Post Guide booklet . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , yeah , ’ said a nome , ‘ but , well , Nisodemus says we can stop this thing just by believing we can . |
| 13 | ‘ So I imagine we can eliminate that possibility . |
| 14 | But Moore assumes we can ascribe inherent value to smaller units of reality and indeed this may be a necessary presupposition for the kind of calculations on the basis of which he thinks we should decide what is most worth doing . |
| 15 | Washburn Abbott , who will lead the US 's delegation to the Geneva conference , told New Scientist : ‘ I hope we can settle this issue amicably without too many political problems . ’ |
| 16 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
| 17 | ‘ We hope we can build some sort of normal life again . ’ |
| 18 | I hope we can see this time . |
| 19 | The Alt Park club reached the fifth round last season before bowing out to Sudbury Town , and Max Thompson 's men will feel they can open this season 's Wembley trail with a win against an Arnold side in the Supreme Division of the Central Midlands League . |
| 20 | ‘ Children with no conception of success or failure can be kidded into believing they can do any job . |
| 21 | I hope they can throw some light on a very delicate matter ? |
| 22 | Both sides hope they can sign that agreement in Washington during the current 11th round of the official Middle East peace talks sponsored by the United States and Russia . |
| 23 | She says it can mean premature death . |
| 24 | do n't think you can do that son ! |
| 25 | And do you think you can manage some broccoli and some of those peppers please ? |
| 26 | But you I think I think w er well it 's no good saying it now but I do n't think you can ask one person under the heat of all that to count up separate |
| 27 | ‘ But as to the actual work involved … ’ he shook his head , ‘ I do n't think you can have any conception of that . ’ |
| 28 | Do you think you can have some sense talked into you ? ’ |
| 29 | And as such of course in run load you can make this thing go in the order of tens of nanoseconds probably less to recognize an image . |
| 30 | I mean you can interpret any play you want to Twelfth Night for example is having a political subtext if you look far enough beneath the surface of the play . |