Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why I sit here , husbandless , dependent upon social security supplemented by such pitiful amounts of money as I can wring out of the national press , and Bernard genuflects once more , fled back to his baptismal church , terrified by the very notion of living outside it . |
| 2 | The stupid thing is that U2 are not just a good new rock-pop group , ‘ boy is n't it great that they can emerge out of the unhelpful Irish environment ’ . |
| 3 | Has he not ignored the main problem of Europe , which is to get a realignment of currencies so that the deutschmark goes up and sterling down and we can get out of the present debilitating recession ? |
| 4 | As soon as they pass their driving test , they can get out of the supervised test car and hop into a two or three litre car and off they go down the road to possibly death and destruction . |
| 5 | We can pull out of the Common Market and out of NATO , but there are practical limits as to what can be done from within British politics to overcome the external constraints on the development of public policy in Britain since we are part of the world economy . |