Example sentences of "can [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the only occasion when the Secretary of State can direct the Chief Inspector who may in all probability have already commenced an inspector 's investigation . |
| 2 | I mean I used to , I can chart the American way you see cos but the American way is different to the British way cos we just count number one to eight but with an American they go one one , one two , one three , one four , one five , one six and then they come this way . |
| 3 | Y'know , I can remember the first time I wore them . |
| 4 | I can remember the first time I got drunk on Scotch . |
| 5 | I can remember the first time I ever |
| 6 | It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him . |
| 7 | Three grand goes a fair way among the widows and apprentices , particularly as nobody can remember the last time there was an apprentice in the village . |
| 8 | Before a non-dominant class can become the dominant class it has to ‘ give its ideas the form of universality and represent them as the only rational universally valid ones ’ ( Marx and Engels 1974 : 66 ) . |
| 9 | For , whereas everyone can see the sense of avoiding deep or rough seas , fewer people can understand the unhappy individual who is so terrified of water in any form that he or she can not even bear to wash their hands . |
| 10 | I am going to tell Roy Plumley 's successor where he can stick the one luxury he allowed us to bring . |
| 11 | Obviously you ca n't use any baseline that you can actually travel on foot from one end after the other , but we can use the astronomical unit itself as a baseline because the earth is moving round the sun . |
| 12 | The discount factor used to calculate the present values of the redemption prices of the bonds is the yield to equivalent life , so we have to calculate the yield to equivalent life before we can calculate the equivalent life itself . |
| 13 | I do not speak for the Philippine health movement , rather these are my attempts to understand how both small-scale local initiatives and a national effort can alter the historical process which to date has left the majority of the 60 million Filipino people living in dire poverty in a land of plenty . |
| 14 | The organization hiring the programmer or consultant may want to own the copyright so that it can exploit the resultant program itself , or it may simply want to prevent its competitors from obtaining a copy of it . |
| 15 | Anyway , you can read the whole story yourself if you decide to buy the game ! |
| 16 | Malcolm Crosby 's men will be trying to make their survival mathematically certain against Swindon tonight , and if they can produce the gritty determination they showed at the Goldstone Ground and eradicate silly defensive errors any lingering doubts should soon be over . |
| 17 | Losing them was bitter , and my only reward is that now I can afford the one thing which with all my wealth and power I 've never been able to permit myself until this moment . |
| 18 | ‘ We have just said if we can get the right deal we will do it . |
| 19 | A place where girls , women and children can get the vital help they need . |
| 20 | An overnight weights-rise of 9lb puts Tom Troubadour nicely in at 10st 1lb and he can continue the winning sequence which has brought stylish victories in handicaps at Newbury . |
| 21 | I mean we can walk , we can talk the only thing we ca n't do is see . |
| 22 | if ever you get to the stage where the left of the party or the right of the party , either extreme wing , feel that they 've got such power , that they can pull the whole thing their way , the danger is that the bits at the other end will snap and that of course is the disunity danger which had absolutely devastated the Labour party , where the left did exactly that and the moderate centre That 's if you can call it that , snapped off . |
| 23 | ‘ We can handle the other part ourselves . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ That is why I can say the only fear I know inside the ring is the fear of losing . |
| 25 | You can imagine the eager anticipation I felt when following the death of our much loved 16 year old dog , I saw an advertisement quoting ‘ Basset Hounds For Sale ’ and the contact , which could have been anywhere in the UK , was only a few miles away . |
| 26 | And Billy Smallbury , she wants you to go to Casterbridge , to see if you can find the young soldier who 's been courting Fanny . ’ |
| 27 | Designed for glide ratio rather than aerobatics , the paragliders nevertheless can teach the foil-kite designer something , just as we strongly suspect they in turn , had already learned from the Flexifoil . |