Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appeals : If planning permission is refused , the person who applied for it can ask the Department of the Environment to reconsider the decision . |
| 2 | Cooking for one can sometimes be a dreary business , and many elderly people on their own do not eat the right types of food to maintain health . |
| 3 | These are things which we already have , and to write about them can only be a celebration of past triumphs , an exercise in quasi-historical complacency : " how the battle for democracy was won " . |
| 4 | For those who put their faith in the existing Union , sovereignty lies with whoever can command a majority in the House of Commons . |
| 5 | I if you 're driving along you can throw out the balance of the car . |
| 6 | Nice numbers that are easy to work with we can count out the pennies , count on our fingers , let you . |
| 7 | On the demise of the Open Software Foundation 's Architecture Neutral Distribution Format effort , Hewlett-Packard Co says ‘ there should be an ANDF technology out there , but says it will be happy to work with whoever can provide that solution , ‘ we 're not religious about that , ’ says HP UK 's workstation marketing manager , Richard Owen . |
| 8 | The significance lies in what can be done with it . |
| 9 | Where it is expected that circulars , advertisements and other public documents will be used as part of the takeover process it will be important that all statements contained in them can be substantiated with adequate fact . |
| 10 | Disclosing what 's happening to you can make you feel better and , as described earlier in this chapter , it can also raise your status : ‘ I feel quite tongue-tied in this company ’ or ‘ That comment 's made me go quite red ! ’ |
| 11 | Well it were n't all that , but i if you want to we can try . |
| 12 | If you want to you can keep a diary or journal of your progress , rewarding yourself for every new skill mastered or job well done . |
| 13 | You can also ask to be put in contact with others in a similar position to yourself and if you want to you can always arrange to meet regularly or form a support group to discuss matters which are relevant to all of you in your day to day work . |
| 14 | But if you want to you can re-name him . ’ |
| 15 | And you can then also couple between keyboards so that if you want to you can play the sounds from this keyboard on the lower one by coupling the two together and making them work as a pair , but that removes the inde independency of being able to set one against the other . |
| 16 | Oh well if you really want to you can . |
| 17 | If you want to you can give up now and we 'll do some reading next . |
| 18 | and with a leprous man came over and began doing a to him saying , Lord if you just want to you can make me clean , and so stretching out his hand he touched him saying , I want to be made clean and immediately his leprosy was , vanished away , then Jesus said to him , see that you tell no one , but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses appointed for the purpose of a witness to them when he entered into Calpurnia that 's the other two , that the other |
| 19 | And I said and of course to do it really properly , you also have envelopes so that if you want to you can stick , stick the card in an envelope that will |
| 20 | I do n't know why he makes you do that I mean it 's if that was something the I mean all Tony used to ever say when we were at traffic lights were if you want to you can put the handbrake on at this set of traffic lights if they were downhill |
| 21 | All self-employed means is that if you want to you can get up at seven o'clock in the morning and start work at half past seven , and work right through till eleven o'clock at night . |
| 22 | They ca n't feel me cos they do n't know I 'm there , and if I want to I can fly over their heads and leave them behind and live in the sky . |
| 23 | Up to you really chair , I mean they 're not signed in any way , so if you want to I can you know get them amended . |
| 24 | Whereas the descriptions of the opening chapter are confined to what can be seen from within his shack , visual perspectives increase in variety and number when he ventures out of doors . |
| 25 | I think he 'd want to have some kind of little business going where if he wants to he can go off And then he can go off and pick it up and |
| 26 | Well this is where Michael is a he would rather , I mean when I say to him can I just do some work on you calc I say , no , cos you are not doing any work , the calculator 's doing the work . |
| 27 | Sometimes say people say to me can you give us |
| 28 | Gerry Tissuer looks at what can go wrong |
| 29 | Whatever you 're looking for you can find it in York . |
| 30 | That accounts for the particularly speedy data transfer and seek times you can see in the benchmarks box . |