Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] you can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it works sometimes take away but sometimes you get things like ooh let's see er I 'm making a mess of this you can write it out nicely . |
| 2 | ‘ Is there any help at all you can give me , Mr Treadwell , on either Amy or Hereward ? ’ she 'd asked . |
| 3 | ‘ If you have any messages like that you can pass them on yourself — but I 'd advise against it . |
| 4 | Once you have got the knack of this you can do it anywhere , whenever you need it . |
| 5 | The absence of punctuation is also a part of the style -but in spite of this you can sense the character struggling to articulate her thoughts clearly . |
| 6 | Put it on a very low one so when you come back about twenty past two whack it up and by sort of say three o'clock , quarter past three you can sit down and eat your grub dinner . |
| 7 | You see , with things like that you can start getting done with living off immoral earnings , brothel-keeping and whatever , and at that age — nearly seventeen — I really did n't want those type of charges . |
| 8 | So you can do things like that you can do erm playing with your coins . |
| 9 | Questions like that you can ask then . |
| 10 | But I understand , and somebody here will no doubt correct me , that there is research to show that if you do actually walk about with a Sony Walkman , go to noisy discos , and then go into a noisy working environment , that by the age of thirty you can lose up to a third of your hearing . |
| 11 | He had returned to Trinidad in May , 1958 , after 25 years absence and was clearly impressed by the mass support for Eric Williams and the P.N.M. ‘ With a movement like this you can do anything ’ , he informed Williams . |
| 12 | In a stage like this you can loose so much and gain so little . |