Example sentences of "and [pers pn] can [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | And I can handle any bastard gets in here . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I can write or speak to anyone with a say in how society or the Church spend money — our money , God 's money — and I can discuss these things with others . |
10 | ‘ As I told you when we first spoke , ’ Emily said quietly , ‘ I can take your debts on my own books and I can raise enough money to start us off in quite good style . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | And when it 's fine , well , it 's a lovely little island , and I can have some bird-walks of my own . |
13 | And I can have another look , check your circulation . |
14 | ‘ I had a lot more left at the end , ’ he added , ‘ and I can take several seconds off my time in a fast race in Rome . ’ |
15 | There was a loud bang on the door and Grace 's angry voice called : ‘ And you can stop that quarrelling , the pair of you . |
16 | So of course having pulled it out the the cord is attached with two very thick nails , and you can pull those nails out , and then get you leave go of the cord . |
17 | The solar eclipse on the 24th indicates a turn in the tide regarding work and you can anticipate some surprise developments here from the beginning of January . |
18 | ‘ And you can leave that door open . |
19 | Right and you can load that file . |
20 | and there 's a , a book to sign and you can borrow any book |
21 | ‘ And you can give that back , ’ said Philip . |
22 | MS-DOS 5 was shipped with network shells and drivers and you can expect this trend to continue with version 6 . |
23 | they 're usually just notes , they 're usually ill formed and not very well backed up and ill thought out and then gradually you know you sort of go through it again and you can fit more detail in |
24 | And they had a big tt gas engine there with a great big flywheel and you can see these machines today , they did n't make them round , they used to make them flat . |
25 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
26 | A friendly system is one where as you talk you are being understood , and you can get some sort of response . |
27 | And you can claim that proportion of your total outgoing . |
28 | Armed with your bridging loan , you are effectively a cash buyer , not caught up in a chain , and you can use this position to your advantage , demanding and getting a good discount . |
29 | That 's in the shops today and you can win that video , you can win that video this afternoon . |
30 | Any material which runs for half a minute or so is worth considering , and you can stretch these times to any length by repeat-recording them nose-to-tail for as many times as needed to make up the required length . |