Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [pron] can [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curving windows at the stern are freckled with spray ; through one of them you can make out a set of fat capstans and a listless macaroni of sodden rope . |
| 2 | So some of them you can work out buy if you know what a transformer does , it steps down all of the current , it reduces the voltage . |
| 3 | Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down . |
| 4 | People like me I can get away with it , I get |
| 5 | With them you can buy just about whatever your little capitalist heart desires . |
| 6 | ‘ And if he 's thinking he 'll be getting away with it he can think again ! |
| 7 | The full Oxford English Dictionary is available on compact disc ; and with it you can do far more extensive searches for information than the printed book allows . |
| 8 | And given you know just just a bit of help , be it financial or or erm housing or or help in terms of of contact and support and er you know having having people round you you can call on . |
| 9 | From it you can look across to the well-occupied slopes on the other side of the wide river valley , where there are numbers of small villages and some fine agricultural land , because these glaciated valleys are celebrated for their fertility . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ? |
| 12 | If there 's no work for 'em they can go home for the day . |
| 13 | Oh going back to the apprenticeship you were more or less left as you stood because I I thought that journeymen were very what 's the word very er they were only too willing to let you know what was going on and when you think about it you can see why . |
| 14 | Through it you can look out on some trees . |