Example sentences of "can [vb infin] they [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked at what all those other glamour pusses produced and I thought , Edna , you can knock them into a cocked hat . |
| 2 | Although the list includes characters who could never have met in reality you can include them in the same army if you wish to do so . |
| 3 | " Find them , " he told Desimir , " buy them for slaves , trick them or kidnap them , but bring them back somehow so that we can bury them under the great gate and build our city of Skadar . " |
| 4 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 5 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 6 | Retirement , when it comes , hits these people unnecessarily hard , and can propel them into a downward spiral of lethargy and depression , leading to premature death . |
| 7 | When the child has gained a number of these it can exchange them for a rewarding object or activity . |
| 8 | See who can remember them in the right order . |
| 9 | As the recipe makes a great many biscuits , you may prefer to halve the quantities , though you can store them in an airtight container . |
| 10 | It 's good practice to use three balls in rotation in cold weather , one being in play on any one hole , and the two others remaining in your pocket where your body heat can keep them at a reasonable temperature . |
| 11 | You can keep them in a small plastic box until then . |
| 12 | ‘ But now I can use them for a different trade . ’ |
| 13 | Most train stations hire out cycles and you can return them to a different station — look out for sign Velo am Bahnhof . |
| 14 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 15 | He can approach them with a devil-may-care swashbuckling attitude , hitting every shot flat-out , going for every putt and disregarding the historical precedents . |
| 16 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 17 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 18 | I have nothing against thorns and prickles so long as you can admire them from a safe distance . |
| 19 | I have never been confident that I can split them with the naked eye , but 7 × 50 binoculars make it easy enough . |
| 20 | anyhow , but I found out now that they 're on prescription so , he said this morning you can have some more tablet , no I said I can get them off the old quack |
| 21 | no , erm Paula you can get them in the frozen food section love |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I try to present them as ribbons of metal because that creates the illusion of movement and I can put them in an off balance position . |
| 25 | Only an alarming collapse by four of the clubs above Quakers can save them from an instant return to the Fourth Division , with nine points separating them from the fifth bottom club . |
| 26 | They must survive the heat and other stresses involved in putting them into a warhead that can disperse them in a fine mist over enemy positions . |
| 27 | It 's usually er er males that go to wars rather than females , and you can waste them on a vast scale like we did at the time of the first world war and , and find virtually no effect on your population . |
| 28 | After development the shots appear in the left-hand window , and you can place them on the main picture by moving them around and pressing fire . |
| 29 | It will probably surprise many people to know that jut five units of alcohol can push them over the legal limit . |
| 30 | You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor , but only if they have been away for more than seven days . |