Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv prt] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er you 'll find that we do have actually have a calculator which we can send out with a retirement pack and that actually gives you an aide-memoire to actually remind you about the things that you might forget erm with regard to erm things like er holidays er erm say , medical expenses , er fuel expenses , erm club fees , T V licence , all those things . |
| 2 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 3 | If , on the other hand , you introduce your ferrets via holes from the burrow system that show , say , 10 yards ( 9 metres ) from the tree trunk you simply drive your rabbits towards the major roots , not away from them , and can end up with a problem where thick roots prevent digging down to retrieve your ferrets . |
| 4 | It 's no problem when police drivers are learning their craft … but what starts as a simple skid can end up with a car totally out of control . |
| 5 | As a result you can end up with a file bordering on the megabytes instead of a few tens of kilobytes . |
| 6 | If you do n't do a caesar when it 's needed , then of course you can end up with a baby that 's damaged . |
| 7 | ‘ Some people can end up with a pension of 30,000 escudos ( £122 ) a month . |
| 8 | ‘ So if you can come up with a way of going down there , past the guards , up to the house , into a room or two , and being left alone for a couple of minutes while I secure the devices — OK , you 've got what you want . ’ |
| 9 | There is n't a back door and I doubt whether even you with that charmed life of yours can come up with a way out of this one . ’ |
| 10 | Now y'know you can come up with a description of that as an ellipse but in exactly the same shape , in a slightly different context , yeah , you know it 's actually circular and it 's a hoop and your perception of the object is different . |
| 11 | The point I really want to make is that if somebody can come up with a hairpiece that really looks real , I think people may consider wearing them |
| 12 | Ask yourself whether the other facts are consistent with this explanation , and see whether you can come up with a pattern of events which makes sense in terms of ordinary human nature . |
| 13 | So you can play along with a television quiz show using a handset like this , or shop from home . |
| 14 | At least you can turn up with a sheet . |
| 15 | I do not want to play games in colour on my TV , I can do household accounts with a piece of paper and a pencil , I can learn languages easier from a book and a tape recorder , if I want information I can look it up and read it far faster than I can get it from a screen and I can turn back with a nip of the finger and read it again . |