Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of exercise strength is often good , and then it steadily declines with increasing effort and , in severe cases , patients are weak all the time ; they ca n't see properly ; they see double ; their eyelids droop ; they ca n't hold their heads up ; they ca n't chew ; they ca n't swallow ; their arms and legs are weak ; they ca n't peg out the clothes on the washing line ; they ca n't walk upstairs , and in really severe cases they ca n't even breathe — unless they 're supported on life support machines they would die . |
| 2 | Whatever the age of the purchaser the firemen ca n't stress enough the importance of following the firework code . |
| 3 | You know , i i it is a very fine line between er how we talk to our customers , which is why I , I , I ca n't stress enough the need for the project coordinators to talk face to face with the customer first of all , and perhaps gently lead him down some of the items in this list that the project coordinator thinks the client might not have remembered . |
| 4 | But all that hate ca n't wash away the guilt . |
| 5 | If you press this one , if you press record it wo n't because there 's a tape in but if you just press press record automatic and you press record and the play button but you ca n't press just the record button . |
| 6 | For instance , you ca n't check out the card 's configuration just by looking at it , and you ca n't change the configuration if you do n't have the set-up utility . |
| 7 | My fingers ca n't spell out the words the way I want them to . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're ecstatic , I ca n't conjure up the superlatives to say how I feel . ’ |
| 9 | Coca-Cola which hopes to build a new plant in Banbury says it ca n't rule out the possibility that it will use a toxic chemical in the canning process at the factory . |
| 10 | because these poor sods ca n't pay off the mortgage |
| 11 | I ca n't walk out the nick a free man and carry on like nothing 's happened , can I ? |
| 12 | And I ca n't control where the woman works , can I ? |
| 13 | Ca n't go up the King 's Head , it 's shut . |
| 14 | Well I ca n't go down the square that 'll be too much , but I mean |
| 15 | I ca n't quite make out the items on the list , however many times I go over it , or rather I ca n't make out the rooms on the staircase , or the stairs on my son 's forehead . |
| 16 | For people who ca n't give up the taste of salt , health experts recommend switching to low-sodium salt alternatives . |
| 17 | You can close the door , but you ca n't put out the lights . |
| 18 | You ca n't tidy up the house until after the fingerprint team have been , and I 've already told you that I 'll arrange for that to be done . ’ |
| 19 | A double stance develops — inevitably , since the figure inside the frame ca n't wish away the novelist bent over his notebooks . |
| 20 | I just ca n't see why the system gave him a second chance . |
| 21 | As FRAG chairman Chris Swinson points out , ‘ I ca n't see why the Government would have mentioned it if it was not intending to act . |
| 22 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 23 | It 's not very nice because everyone thinks a fire is flames but the really dangerous thing is smoke and you literally ca n't breathe in the smoke . |
| 24 | David Stern from Friends of Bayswater Greenbelt ca n't understand why the scheme is needed in the addition to the soon-to-be-opened M forty . |
| 25 | He says he ca n't understand why the council should , on the one hand , put so much money into the college , and on the other hand virtualy sign it 's death warrant . |
| 26 | Of the current pop stuff , I ca n't understand why the formula PWL tracks exist at all . |
| 27 | And I ca n't understand why the police do n't shift these vehicles . |
| 28 | He says they 're all getting on so well they ca n't understand why the politicians started the wars in the first place . |
| 29 | smell now , but er I ca n't understand how the war and the would cigarettes years ago , you know , and they start that |
| 30 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |