Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] can [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . ’ |
2 | Anton tells me I can have 20 minutes and then he 's sending the other two on to finish things off . |
3 | In front of me I can see one link in the town centre where the improvement would only be twenty one percent . |
4 | I I can remember one time in the last year when I actually thought it 's the sort of thing we always put in a diary , |
5 | Thank you Chairman , I I can note that remark , but I do think that we do have to defend the position a little on environmental issues . |
6 | By having someone in our adult lives who constantly feeds us verbal tranquillizers , or by feeding them to ourselves we can ease emotional pains and keep them at bay for a while . |
7 | Our gentle driving had resulted in 15.6mpg — about what I was expecting — but also a maximum touring range of 300 miles , which I can imagine some owners quibbling with . |
8 | In Men 's rooms , which are the only ones from which I can report personal experiences , there are elaborate rituals for avoiding the impression of suspect motives . |
9 | Such an object is not so very different from a table or a cow , concerning which I can have similar information of where they are and what they are doing . |
10 | In every question needing assessment a standard or scale of reference is required by which you can measure relative success , failure or achievement . |
11 | This is a strip fixed with points on to which you can attach any number of bulbs that you like . |
12 | For a programme in which you can devote six hours a day to language learning , Brewster and Brewster suggest the following amounts of time on each phrase : In your daily programme you may experience two reactions — boredom or frustration . |
13 | He 's got a pair of shearing scissors and he 's been doing like , this boy 's African , so he 's got , you know , Afro hair , which you can do curly-wurly signs on the back of him , it looks pretty neat . |
14 | There are two ways in which you can achieve this look . |
15 | Early in the Autumn Term there is a reception at which you can meet current staff and students . |
16 | There is an integral garage from which you can gain direct access to the cellar . |
17 | At the end of each evening there will a special prize draw in which you can win Good Food Club annual memberships , cheeseboards , Zanussi cool bags and storage containers and Tupperware cheese graters . |
18 | These include a heated swimming pool , sauna and solarium , crazy golf , Exmoor club in which you can enjoy free entertainment , a shop and ‘ Country Kitchen ’ restaurant , launderette , good bar food and take away meals . |
19 | ( A supplementary pension payable under the Supplementary Benefits scheme is not taxable , nor are voluntary payments made to her by you or other relatives , for which you can claim tax-free allowance . |
20 | Camp on one hole one day , or in an area from which you can see several holes . |
21 | Macbeth , short and severely to the point , is not a play onto which you can get much spin , but what we are given here is a treatment devoid of ambiguity . |
22 | £50000 does not go very far in TV , except on one or two small regional stations ; it is quite difficult , as the cigarette companies find , to spend £1 million plus on a brand without using TV at all : if you only have a few hundred pounds to spend there are few press media in which you can consider full pages or even moderately large sizes . |
23 | But what catches the eye , while lane-changing to avoid the gaudily clad in day-glo outfits , is the ease with which you can buy boron-graphite shafts at just 13 dollars a go . |
24 | Given information represents the common ground between speaker and hearer and gives the latter a reference point to which s/he can relate new information . |
25 | The differences between disciplines to which Taylor refers mean that the discussion will to some extent be an abstract one , moving at a level at which one can identify general ideas , characteristics and trends . |
26 | One makes one 's reputation , and one 's reputation enables one to achieve the conditions in which one can do good work . ’ |
27 | The record in a profile can contain inputs spanning more than a hundred years , and under favourable circumstances it can be used to chart oscillations in recharge , from which one can infer climatic history . |
28 | Because trying to meet this criterion has occupied so much of my research time in the past two decades it is worth spelling out again that to adopt a reductionist methodology in research strategy — that is , to try to stabilize the world that one is studying by manipulating one variable at a time , holding everything else as constant as possible — is generally the only way to do experiments from which one can draw clear conclusions . |
29 | As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances . |
30 | That 's good news in itself , but it 's also good in that it provides a bedrock on which we can build sustainable recovery of output and and job creation . |