Example sentences of "can [verb] [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , you can picture me in the thick of it . |
| 2 | If he can do it in the Baltic lands , he can do it elsewhere . |
| 3 | If they can do it in the far North , surely I can do it in the South ? ’ |
| 4 | If they can do it in the far North , surely I can do it in the South ? |
| 5 | See who can remember them in the right order . |
| 6 | But you can see it in the glazed look in his eyes . |
| 7 | You can see it in the glazed looks on the faces of the crowd tonight — they 've never seen anything like it ! |
| 8 | Erm but like , ideally , I said oh yes we can have it in the spare room , well there was that much rubbish in there clothes and God knows what else I ended up having it on our bed well it every time you wanted it you had pull it out , and they 're bloody heavy ! |
| 9 | A : Read your letter … like your style … can point you in the right direction . |
| 10 | no , erm Paula you can get them in the frozen food section love |
| 11 | Well you can get them in the financial press , erm usually the Telegraph on a , on a weekend or the Money Mail or the , any of the loca any good quality paper , or you can buy some of the financial guides that you get in er , in er newsagents these days . |
| 12 | You can get them in the square ones , the six by six , but I wa I wanted the way we worked it out , eight by four would work out more economical . |
| 13 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 14 | which often looks quite nice so that even if what you 've found does n't quite match up with what they 've found you can say well look you know these theories , ideas are need enriching , they 're a bit inadequate as they stand because what happens when somebody tells you this , what happens when somebody says this erm you know we can , we can revise them in the following way |