Example sentences of "[verb] we can [adv] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you can hit your killer 's face before you croak we can probably get him , ’ SOCO said helpfully , as he examined a gory piece of Sellotape before slipping it into one of his brown paper bags and carefully labelling it . |
| 2 | Ooh he says we can only pay you your travelling expenses . |
| 3 | We can do , we 've just got to , I mean we 've just got to ask everyone to give a very brief report erm on another occasion and then it can be kept very short , I think though , there are , there are times when , when , you know , we do want to hear what 's going on with sort of er networks and campaigns , we do need that time as well do n't we , er so we ca n't , I do n't think we can always do it . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think we can really say their ( the government 's ) hands are clean , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I do n't know , I mean we can either take him up |
| 6 | Well I mean we can always unmake it presumably cos next week it will be , it 'll be different time I expect wo n't it ? |
| 7 | So here or here or here it is really zero We can never say it actually is |
| 8 | For an extra two hours ' shift , well I suppose we can just afford it , can we ? |
| 9 | No I do n't think so , everybody 's disappointed , especially after the way we played in the first half , but erm on our second half performance , I suppose we can just count ourselves lucky we come away with a point . |
| 10 | It seems we can now qualify our position on the relationship between dramatic playing and performance modes by saying that although the ultimate intention of the performer is to ‘ describe ’ an emotional event , the quality essential to dramatic playing , the quality of ‘ being ’ may also enter the performance mode , given the Stanislavsky approach . |
| 11 | I am confident that we are well able to meet any of today 's challenges but this does not mean we can ever relax our efforts to achieve the best in every possible respect . |
| 12 | And as our science correspondent David Whitehouse reports , it means we can now see what cities and building looked like hundreds of years ago . |
| 13 | By ceasing to ignore the awkward case of women — as most of the traditional theorists did we can often see what has gone wrong with our thinking in other , apparently more straightforward cases . |
| 14 | ‘ We think we can best define our core business ourselves , but it 's difficult to be £1 in information technology , ’ Hjoth said . |
| 15 | If we keep our minds busy we can consciously ignore our tummy , which often only tells us it 's hungry because we 're bored . |