Example sentences of "it [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paint it I can not because I am not a painter . |
| 2 | Modigliani agreed reluctantly : ‘ If you want me to ruin it I can continue . ’ |
| 3 | It took me a devil of a time to find it I can tell you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We became ‘ best friends ’ as schoolgirls do , pushing our babies to the park together on fine afternoons and on wet ones , sitting in each other 's flats drinking whisky — how we afforded it I can not now imagine — while our babies played behind the sofa . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Without it I can not proceed . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And now , ’ he said , having mopped up the last crumb , ‘ now , what is it I can do for you ? |
| 9 | That 's that 's it until I know or I know what I 'm actually looking for in it I can run around chasing me tail all day which |
| 10 | ‘ I take it I can get drunk as a lord should on such an occasion ? ’ |
| 11 | And , and how it got the name Hole , was there 's supposed to be gold buried somewhere up there , but what quantity or anything about it I can not tell you . |
| 12 | While I 've still got it I can take it out and look at it and know I still have it . |
| 13 | Er , I can make it I can make it Monklands , or Strathclyde ? |
| 14 | Throw it I can barely lift it . |
| 15 | And some of it I can only get in Stowmarket anyway because it 's heavy . |
| 16 | A lot of it I can just push aside but |
| 17 | If he do n't like it I can record over it but |
| 18 | Yes only yes you took it I can take it from tomorrow for a week |
| 19 | but because I know you can do it I can say you another one to one conversation with you about it , but basically you 're no way near to guide the customer you 're in there to sell the customer |
| 20 | What is it I can say ? |
| 21 | There is nothing outside it which can be useful for it but is not specifically necessary for it . |
| 22 | It causes an electric current to flow through anything moving across it which can conduct electricity . |
| 23 | If the retina is a square array with n photocells along each edge , then there are n(n-1)/2 pairs in it which can be the ends of a line . |
| 24 | She agreed with Gilbert that the souls of the dead are in the hand of God and , as for herself , she was persuaded that there is nothing in this world or out of it which can separate us from the love of God . |
| 25 | A basic interest in questions about the meaning and purpose of life ( a ) to challenge secularist assumptions and to appreciate that religious truth-claims can not be easily dismissed ; ( b ) to understand what is distinctive about religion , that is , what it essentially concerns , and be able to distinguish between that and features of it which can vary and perhaps be dispensed with altogether ; ( c ) to realize in particular in how many different ways religion can masquerade as something else , and fail to be what it claims to be ; ( d ) to appreciate the highly controversial nature of religion and of almost everything that is said about it by anyone , whether religious or not ; ( e ) to have a firm grasp of criteria by which to evaluate precise examples and manifestations of religion in practice ; ( f ) to appreciate the force of the question-mark with regard to the ultimate divide between religion and non-religion , and to appreciate the reality of the dilemma , and the ways in which religion needs to be questioned for its failures , negative attitudes , hypocrisy and externalism . |
| 26 | I suggest you have someone take a look at it who can tell you the exact problem and not speculate as to probable causes and costs . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 29 | Through it you can look out on some trees . |
| 30 | She said , ‘ That is a mirror and if you look at it you can see yourself . ’ |