Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 And with this in mind and I 'm I 'm you will notice that I have n't spoken at all and that is quite deliberate on my part but then I can also say the same for many people sitting round here who know quite well that they have n't spoken either .
2 I can not share the same rooms . ’
3 ‘ I 'm hopeless on the guitar — I can only play a few chords . ’
4 Remember , fibre-rich food holds extra water , so two or three extra pounds of liquid retained inside you can easily obscure the same quantity of lost fat .
5 You can not teach the same amount in seven years as in six ; or in four hours in the afternoon as you can in five hours in the morning .
6 The bottom line is , that if you are having to use Council enforcement to repay interest , you can not spend the same Council tax revenues in providing services .
7 You can also put a few other useful files onto the disk , such as the autoexec.bat and config.sys .
8 You can also use the same method for dresses with a shaped skirt .
9 Well , you can just do the same with him .
10 You can then press a few sprays from the top of the stem or , alternatively , press the entire empty stem , encouraging it to bend in a pleasing curve , and then re-assemble the bells on to the stem when you come to use it in a design .
11 If you can only wait a few — ’
12 I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know .
13 I can remember one standard lamp we had , it was really weird and people used to say that 'll be alright if you were landing a plane cos it had spotlights , I mean now , they , erm , in fact you can still buy the same sort of thing , but then it was so way out
14 In training though you can still have the same problem erm you know perhaps towards the end of the session you 've probably seen it as and I , I 'm guilty of it myself cos we 're trying to rap on through it as quickly as possible so we get in ya way by six o'clock or that so we break all the rules late in the day
15 You can always take a few days off immediately before the exam to rest and refresh yourself .
16 The only thing I dislike it for , you can never find the same stall if you 've got to take anything back .
17 A frequent or constant urge to urinate , which may be so strong you feel you may ‘ lose control ’ , even though you can actually pass no more than a few drops
18 Whereas we have , or can afford to buy , the equipment and expertise in print production which makes relatively small print-runs but high production values viable , we can not do the same so readily and so confidently for , say , CD-ROM .
19 For although we can be fairly sure that the recorded homicide figure is reasonably valid , we can not have the same confidence in the data on occupationally related deaths .
20 And we can always print a few more up Terry there 's no
21 In San Gimignano we can still see a few churches and the towers .
22 The response from Medau teachers has been good but we can still take a few more .
23 Coins of all periods and cultures behave in similar ways as economic objects , and we can therefore apply the same methods of economic study to all of them .
24 When they called on us , they would always say to Mum , ‘ Fanny , we came to see how you are getting on , but we can only stay a few minutes . ’
25 Because I think that they and that we can only say the same again next year when our own , everything goes up and , I think it 's very sad that the church ca n't !
26 Local authorities are also facing an increasing number of fines and compensation orders placed on them by magistrates when children in their care cause damage in the community , even though they can not exercise the same rights of control as parents .
27 Although barbel are so stupid when they are feeding ravenously , they are not so stupid they can not learn a few tricks of their own to enable them to feed in the face of apparent danger .
28 A key development in the first few months of life is ‘ joint reference ’ : the ability of a young baby to follow mother 's eye-gaze in order that they can jointly experience the same event .
29 If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts .
30 While it has the advantage of putting slurry at plant root level where it can be used quickly , it can not bury the same volume of slurry or reduce the smell as much as it can with deep injection .
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