Example sentences of "you can [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Locate the second strip to the required width ; insert two brackets in matching slots and test a timber across them so you can check with a spirit level . |
| 2 | You receive a book of orders ( or pension book ) which you can cash at a post office of your choice . |
| 3 | Anything you can suggest as a remedy to prevent me from parting with my few remaining strands of hair will be welcome . |
| 4 | ‘ If you can sleep for a couple of hours , while the tablets take effect , I 'm sure by this evening you 'll feel much more your old self . ’ |
| 5 | Now you can choose from a range of excursions or wander freely , but you must have accommodation booked for each night of your stay . |
| 6 | You can choose from a weekend ( £95 ) or a week long holiday ( £265 ) where you 'll observe wild life while walking an average of six to eight miles each day . |
| 7 | Ken and Pat Ferguson would like to re-cover your dining-chair seats for a labour charge of only £5 each plus the cost of fabric , which you can choose from a selection of pieces available in stock at reduced prices , or supply your own fabric . |
| 8 | From the touch sensitive computer panel you can pre-set your sauna to automatically start the next day , and you can choose from a selection of five climate temperatures , you also have the added luxury of an AM/FM radio to listen to , there 's a digital clock and heater and there 's container system to add fresh herbs for richer and more exciting steam . |
| 9 | Or you can choose from a variety of packages with different top hotels . |
| 10 | Further ‘ inland ’ you can choose from a myriad of even more music bars and pizzerias which are tucked away in small cobbled squares . |
| 11 | So , you can move into a basement flat , maisonette , bungalow , house or penthouse suite , and it can be freehold or leasehold . |
| 12 | Then you can move about a bit . |
| 13 | You told me the house is in need of attention ; move and you can move to a place which is in excellent order and in a more central position where you 'll be able to attract more customers , ’ he said , treading a verbal tightrope between head-banging irritation and reasoned appeal . |
| 14 | But then they also you can register as a non-taxpayer . |
| 15 | The natural prototype for a metric space is the world we live in , where the metric is Euclidean distance which you can measure with a ruler . |
| 16 | Short of outright brutality that is probably one of the most degrading things you can do to a person . |
| 17 | ‘ The worse thing you can do to a Muslim is insult Muhammad . ’ |
| 18 | As Sheila Kitzinger , the birth expert , wrote : ‘ The most undermining thing you can do to a woman in labour is to encourage her to feel sorry for herself . ’ |
| 19 | All the you can do as a customer can do is keep your eyes open … and if it 's suspiciously cheap , be suspicious . |
| 20 | The activities are designed to exploit the motivating and memorable appeal of music to the learner and the author proves his point that ‘ anything you can do with a text , you can do with a song ’ . |
| 21 | The activities are designed to exploit the motivating and memorable appeal of music to the learner and the author proves his point that ‘ anything you can do with a text , you can do with a song ’ . |
| 22 | Brenda Campbell says to ride a 100 miles on a horse is quite something in itself but to ride it at a fast pace and be able to get off is semothing else and it 's the best thing you can do with a horse |
| 23 | It 's amazing what you can do with a skip full of building rubble ! |
| 24 | What you can do with a two-ounce jar of smoked cod 's roe , a few spoonfuls of oil and a potato is quite a revelation to many people . |
| 25 | See what you can do in a couple of days . ’ |
| 26 | Let's see what you can do against a kwai . ’ |
| 27 | You can tell at a glance what it is that ails a cow or a sick calf better than any vet . |
| 28 | As you can think of a rhombus as two iso two same-sized isosceles |
| 29 | There are 2 points in X. If N is 3 , then you can think of a cube , drawn in the corner of the three axes of Cartesian geometry . |
| 30 | If you think about this you can think of a kite as two isosceles triangles glued together . |