Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [pron] can [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 As He says to me you can choose yir freends but you canny choose yir flock !
2 Well that have actually been told that if anything comes in providing This is what I ca n't get through We 've said to them you can bring your radios in but give to Brian first .
3 Looking around us we can see affluence and a long-living and healthy population .
4 ‘ If they can stand dogs piddling on them they can stand a bit o' paint . ’
5 Whichever way we look at it we can disregard with clear conscience both the radial electric field and the magnetic field .
6 She said , ‘ That is a mirror and if you look at it you can see yourself . ’
7 If you look at it you can see it 's very , very comprehensive .
8 All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you .
9 They reckon if you concentrate with him you can do the same
10 Now , from what I know of him he can get a good sound out of anything , but the amps he 's been using recently ( until he had them nicked from his car ) were Marshall Valvestate 80s .
11 It causes an electric current to flow through anything moving across it which can conduct electricity .
12 The Court of Victoria rightly rejected the contention that a careless act can never give rise to a cause of action in negligence unless there is in existence at the time of the act a legal person affected by it who can sue .
13 You ca n't even he probably , he , he could n't , you do n't have to it they can give you
14 I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ?
15 I said ‘ If you point at me I can point at you . ’
16 I tell you what you can get for it you can have erm a make-up bag with a string of pearls in they 're not real one you can have er more of that moist erm tissue stuff er a bag with sweetener things in it there 's er a video about a Biggin Air Show and loads of marshmallows too for Kids ' County number two here 's the clues , It 's got barbed wire around it its made of wood it 's long .
17 Oh going back to the apprenticeship you were more or less left as you stood because I I thought that journeymen were very what 's the word very er they were only too willing to let you know what was going on and when you think about it you can see why .
18 Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P .
19 ‘ Children will be the special target if you start with them you can build in good habits for later life . ’
20 Well if you 're all the way over there and I 'm talking to you I can hear my voice more .
21 The only trouble is that it lies quite close to a footbridge and as soon as anyone walks across it I can guarantee I will not get a bite for at least an hour afterwards .
22 There was silence between the three of them for a moment as they returned each other 's stare ; then Joe said , ‘ If you do n't wish to act for me I can make other arrangements . ’
23 Steep cliffs of limestone line its sides , while higher up in the bed of the beck which flows through it you can find , according to Dr Raistrick , " Cave Pearls " , small , rounded calcite pebbles formed by the deposition of layer upon layer of calcium in solution .
24 She said to me you can go and get it out , honestly , you know the other day he could hardly s well y you could see but not nearly as good as this
25 Well I think the only difference is I say to her I hope you 're still cos she said to me you can come , I said I 'm coming straight round yours christmas day , I 'm not coming home waiting for you to come back , you do n't come till half past ten !
26 And I said to him you can have it for two , two fifty .
27 Wednesday after playschool I said to you I can afford that jumper I 've got twenty seven pound
28 Frank said to you you can have
29 I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in .
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