Example sentences of "can do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , while some things we can do give us great satisfaction , other tasks leave us cold . |
| 2 | We I think you know we can do go into just four four people . |
| 3 | If I can do go |
| 4 | He 's sort of saying , he 's justifying it in , in a very Marxist way , he said this is our duty , what we 're doing is , is , is natural , it 's a process of , of his history you know that there 's nothing we can do avoid this and we should in fact be pleased to see th th this actually taking place , it 's er it 's not a question at all of , of the parents going , peasants going too far , it 's not er a reign of terror at all , erm in fact more than that it , it 's a sort of erm it , it 's not even retribution i it 's a , it 's a course of history . |
| 5 | GUSHIEST COMMENT : ‘ The greatest thing you can do do when you love somebody is to make another human being . ’ |
| 6 | well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ? |
| 7 | Erm not really you know maybe in an out of the way way they might but you know the type of musicians we are or whatever , you know we can do say I can do all the Irish stuff the up tempo rousing songs I can play Irish and Scottish dances and that kind of stuff , then Tony can do right across the board with easy listening stuff and country stuff and even one of the tracks on our new C D is er is er well what I would term a pop song . |
| 8 | The thing is that I I can do revamp it on computer . |
| 9 | But some of the comparisons we can do produce quite interesting facts . |