Example sentences of "you can [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you can do one with the erm , with the little thing . |
| 2 | YOU can do something about the situation , YOU can take personal responsibility for conserving the worlds finite resources , by not consuming meat and animal products . |
| 3 | ‘ The past is the past , and you can do nothing about it , but you can do something about the future , and I am very optimistic . |
| 4 | You can make one like the British O' level that passes only 20% of 16 year-olds . |
| 5 | If your spreadsheet does n't have a formula to work out this calculation directly , you can base one on the textbook formula for the sum of a geometric progression : |
| 6 | On the other hand , you can have something like the gang of four in China that creates such tensions and anxieties in the society and so many people get to feel that things have gone from bad to worse , that you get a shake up and change in the regime . |
| 7 | In other words , you can have one without the other : academic freedom and academic autonomy are distinctive concepts . |
| 8 | Perhaps you would like to verify that you can understand something of the organisation using this form of documentation . |
| 9 | The other thing that is important is that I do n't think you can get anything on the cheap . |
| 10 | You had to get things by mail order , but now you can get anything in the shops . |
| 11 | And if you can get anything in the way of a statement — fine . |
| 12 | As all Sainsbury 's wines , Vintage Selection or otherwise , are carefully described both on the bottle and on the shelf or rack ( and you can immediately spot the Vintage Selection area in your store because the wine is stored in special racks ) , you can find something of the right character and desired sweetness with complete confidence . |
| 13 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 14 | You can put everything on the back . |
| 15 | the first thing is to understand the object before you : as long as you think that the corkscrew was meant for opening tins or the cathedral for entertaining tourists you can say nothing to the purpose about them . |