Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] can [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or I can get some paper and put it over |
| 2 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 3 | It says on it , you can pay two hundred pounds , or over three years , or you can pay ten pounds . |
| 4 | Or you can pay full price somewhere else . |
| 5 | Say there we are you can add twelve add twelve or you can do two times |
| 6 | You can borrow small sums for a short period of time or you can borrow large amounts for many years , such as a mortgage . |
| 7 | Or you can buy some flowers from a shop or market stall . |
| 8 | Or you can read some source of information that predicts the future . |
| 9 | Again you can pick up the stitches and knit them directly on to the edge , or you can knit long strips or tubes and sew them neatly in place . |
| 10 | Gripper strips are nailed to the bottom of each riser and the back of each tread ( or you can get right-angled metal stair grippers which simply fit into the angle between each tread and riser ) . |
| 11 | If person A is given an overdraft and then draws a cheque on the account and pays it to person B , person B's bank account has been credited and he or she can draw this money even though person A never deposited the money in the first place . |
| 12 | The CAB welfare worker can not predict exact dates but by looking at a client 's circumstances he or she can give some indication . |
| 13 | Or we can go some place else if you want ? ’ |
| 14 | If we want to paint a big choral canvas , words can be repeated without any fear of being repetitious , or we can use whole sentences or sections several times over . |
| 15 | Being a property tax — there is not now any contention between the two main parties about that — we can either tax the kind of house and say , for example , that all three-bedroom properties shall be taxed the same , in which case my hon. Friends should be aware that we would soon have tremendous anomalies as the same tax is placed on a Mayfair flat as is put on a flat in a mining village , or we can have regional banding , and then there must be boundaries between regions . |
| 16 | The government can seek greater efficiency ; it can squeeze expenditure across the board ; or it can ask hard questions about what the state should be doing , and try to eliminate whole categories of spending . |
| 17 | It can encourage foreign tourists to spend their money or it can encourage foreign investment which will provide income . |
| 18 | Co-operation can focus mainly on the R , the D , or it can couple joint R&D with the joint production and marketing of the output of that R&D , and it can be structured around sharing costs , restrictions put on the other R&D activities of participants , and rules which govern the production and marketing of the output affected by the joint R&D project . |
| 19 | All of them have got a part to play , because we believe there are erm it 's a national problem , but the solutions are in each community different and we need the community to look at a situation and see what can be done on the ground , and I can give many examples of the sort of thing one has in mind . |
| 20 | So type plus two less thans , the name of the file , which is sales one , two greater thans , and a cell address , C twenty five and then enter and that number one five four is , you got from that file sales one , in cell C twenty five , and I can copy that formula to the right , just like any other formula , I can copy it . |
| 21 | As a works convenor , I work along twenty shop stewards , and I can tell this Congress that the message that they 've given to me from the people from the people that have elected them , is that they 're sick and tired of the perpetual bleating of the T U C about how they have to abide by the laws , when the only laws that are there are the laws that are bringing this movement down . |
| 22 | And I can handle any bastard gets in here . |
| 23 | Indeed , he confessed that he was deeply troubled by having to pass sentence at ill : ‘ Itis with feelings of great pain that I pass sentence upon you , the defendants , and I can make great allowance for the youthful spirit which has been exhibited by you . ’ |
| 24 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 25 | Her face still unsmiling , she said , ‘ And I can smell soft soap a mile off , Father . |
| 26 | I 'd be glad to hear from anyone who feels they would like to be a volunteer and I can promise many rewards from doing such a worthwhile job . |
| 27 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 28 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 29 | We staged with the Sultan of Oman and Muscat , and Salalah , and I can recall one evening a hit of a commotion , when one of the Wapiti crews of No 55 Squadron caused an uproar by trying to get on to the roof . |
| 30 | The Stick has got the same range as the piano and I can jump four octaves with one hand . |