Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Sam can apparently do what the hell he likes , with as many women as he pleases ! ’ |
| 2 | I can perhaps anticipate what the Minister will say . |
| 3 | We seem to have a breed of unadventurous promoters who can only offer us the likes of Grooverider and Carl Cox , making it difficult for talented newcomers to get the break they deserve . |
| 4 | Many people think you can only do what the punchcard tells you to do but , being me , I always try to get as much as I can from them — even with a lace card I 'll try knitting it in different ways . |
| 5 | Local authorities can only do what the law explicitly allows ; all council powers come from Acts of Parliament . |
| 6 | The " fundamental " principle of education is that the head can only take what the seat can take . |
| 7 | At a national level one can only imagine what the development consequences might be for countries with already declining or collapsing economies . |
| 8 | The Purchaser can only see what the Vendor makes available : it may not disclose everything . |
| 9 | Erm , but but , you can easily see what the rule is , ca n't you , I mean , it 's enough , it 's enough to be able to recognise that there is a pattern to that usage . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you mean that if you can just explain what the alternatives are you will have answered the question ? |
| 11 | The only thing that perhaps they do n't handle is that intermediate area , which the AC30 is very good at — where you can strike a chord and it 's distorted , but you can still hear what the chord is . ’ |
| 12 | We can hardly suppress what the police surgeon has just told us . |
| 13 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 14 | Monitor evaluator , they can usually make themselves the pest of the group because everybody thinks they 're so bloody negative . |
| 15 | Not only do the size diagrams in the magazine indicate the measurements of the pieces , they can also tell you the proportions of the finished garment . |
| 16 | Part-time or evening classes can really give you the blues . |
| 17 | As Kenny McLeod says : ‘ What we share with these groups is that we can now do what the fuck we like . ’ |
| 18 | We can then recognize what the relationship is by observing , in context , who gives what to whom . |
| 19 | You can either create it the way I did or just copy everything you see here into a new file . |
| 20 | Make sure that , sure they 're good quality photographs , normally black and white , sharp , appropriate and so forth , and make sure that you 've got sufficient details associated with it , often a good way of doing it is by having a , something typed on a slip of paper which is just very slightly stuck to the , to the back so the editor can actually see what the thing is and can take it off if he needs to when the picture is actually being reproduced . |