Example sentences of "we can [verb] [adv] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here we can mention only a few events which led to major therapeutic developments , and pass by much else which gave the clues and spurs for progress . |
| 2 | We can do exactly the same : look around for good ambush spots as you run , places which give you cover so that you can jump out and completely surprise your attacker as he rushes past . |
| 3 | I mean it it 's only external speakers that we should er I mean they come to the University for a day , I can set that up I mean we can do exactly the same at university . |
| 4 | Out of this maelstrom we can select only a few thinkers and those ideas which stand out in retrospect as marking out the major developments and as setting the scene for more recent times . |
| 5 | We can see exactly the same connections being drawn in the case of Frances , Jenny and Ian . |
| 6 | Notice also that there is an alternative and syntactically simpler way of expressing the second version , which is : ( 12 ) Haberup angered his golem We can see exactly the same type of ambiguity in : ( 13 ) Reg ran the engine dry The adverbal adjective version of ( 13 ) corresponding to the question what did Reg do to the engine ? tells us that Reg reduced the engine to a certain unsatisfactory state ( though he may at least have had the sense to stop at that point ) . |
| 7 | To refer to a method we shall be discussing more fully in Chapter 3 , we can see much the same sort of development with respect to the survey . |