Example sentences of "you can [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Find another two people to be prayer partners with you once a week so that some of these prayer burdens can be shared and agreed on and so that you can be spurred on by each other 's zeal in prayer . |
| 2 | ‘ It seems you can be swept along by almost anyone . |
| 3 | ( Why be beaten up for nothing when you can be beaten up for being a smart-arse ? ) |
| 4 | You can be had up for blackmail , you know . |
| 5 | Only a few words , and you can be taken out of this cell , fed , warmed , lodged in a better place , ’ he tempted softly . |
| 6 | At least that way there is no way you can be held back by the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ — the phrase coined in the United States to describe the invisible barriers that allow women to rise only so far in an organisation . |
| 7 | So if you were going at sixty four , you know , about a millimetre before the sign you have to be going at fifty five a millimetre after the sign er and you can be pulled up by a State Trooper as I was pulled up , quite unjustly I felt . |
| 8 | When you start playing your cricket at 18 or 19 , or even earlier , it 's very easy to get bowled over by the way of life you adopt — there are always a lot of people who want to know you and you can be carried along by that . |
| 9 | You can be caught out with your follow-up question if you do n't know what you are talking about ’ — Sir Robin Day . |