Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People often say to me how much time have I got in which I can complain about faulty goods ? |
| 2 | So that 's R Z , one Z two , that 's two R's together and then , what I calculate the side B , the square root of sixty minus thirty I , eh this about the hardest figure that I can do in complex numbers , the square root of sixteen , minus thirty I . |
| 3 | ‘ I seem to have some other side to my personality which I can bring to certain parts , ’ he says . |
| 4 | I can compete with able-bodied people . |
| 5 | ‘ Gran , I 'm not the normal one of the family after all ; I 'm a witch 's daughter , I can travel to other worlds and make magic . ’ |
| 6 | He can go for long periods without food ; I can go for long periods without sleep . |
| 7 | I can think of huge chunks of life , important to me , in which information technology is irrelevant : sex , the arts , sport , food and drink , home decorating . |
| 8 | So that 's how I can speak from direct experience . |
| 9 | ’ I can navigate on planetary speed without them , ’ Posi said , ’ so long as we do not lose others . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It shows I can score from close range , ’ he said . |
| 11 | At the moment I can only take the family thing so far : I can talk about certain things , but then everything becomes a blank because I still feel too close to it all . |
| 12 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 13 | If I find I 'm at a dead end , then I can ask for outside help . |
| 14 | I 've got to absolutely love the work then I can try to male others see why . |
| 15 | However — and I say this with some pride and gratitude — Lord Darlington never made any efforts to conceal things from my own eyes and ears ; I can recall on numerous occasions , some personage breaking off in mid-sentence to glance warily towards my person , only for his lordship to say : ‘ Oh , that 's all right . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm going to read everything I can find about old Carteron . |
| 17 | ‘ It is also my little laboratory where I can experiment with new dishes and new ideas . |
| 18 | If I can navigate my way around Heathrow airport , I can get to downtown Venice . ’ |
| 19 | At last I can work in relative freedom . ’ |
| 20 | Q I can knit in double jacquard and have made a couple of garments , but would very much like to knit a single motif . |
| 21 | I said , ‘ I 'm so afraid that the motor areas are taking over ; but at least reflex actions are true to oneself , which is more than I can say for blind hatred . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Although we did not measure this in our study , I can say from other work the average German sees his doctor 13 times a year , the average Swiss sees his doctor 7.5 times a year and the average Briton 3.5 times . ’ |
| 23 | That 's what all boils down to does n't it at the end of the day and you have n't succeeded as far as I can see in convincing people , those three thousand signatories , that erm it 's not going to affect their lives and the quality of their lives and their their environment adversely . |
| 24 | Dr Sue Jennings , a pioneer in dramatherapy , described how an infertile woman may learn to identify sorrow and rage against the sterile womb which , every month , rejects the fertilized egg : how she can move from passive grief to weeping rage in which she pounds her belly with her hands , railing against its refusal to give a home to the child she desperately wants . |
| 25 | Her cash income remains the same , but she has to stock her new home on that and whatever grants she can secure from social security for domestic hardware . |
| 26 | Angela has set up four regional training bases around the UK where she can draw on local church-related and BBC contacts to assist with training . |
| 27 | Her powers seem curiously independent of age , and she can call upon extraordinary sources of energy when the need arises . |
| 28 | He 's not the sort of a man whom you can change by external circumstances , for I honestly think he puts very little value on externals . |
| 29 | You can conceive of globular protein molecules folding from chains of left- and right-handed amino acids but not helical protein molecules . |
| 30 | For stitch patterns that have been integrated with a garment piece , you can choose from various types of charts that show the garment shapings as well as the colour pattern information . |