Example sentences of "[pron] can [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I use them wherever I can as a flattering background for later-flowering plants . |
| 2 | ‘ I get involved in many different projects and I can to a certain degree prioritise what I want to do . |
| 3 | I can with a few deft strokes build myself a crenellated castle with coloured windows , or a maze of evergreen , or a field of rippling corn , or a fat blackbird with bright eyes picking at a cluster of red berries . |
| 4 | Removing all I can with a salt bath , and using various propriety parasite treatments have had no effect , the leeches just keep coming back . |
| 5 | yeah quicker than I can with a key ! |
| 6 | Thus to the expository lesson , the period of exercise and drill , the set readings from the class textbook , the tests of memory and comprehension , and all the other useful ploys of the good teacher , have now been added sessions when the student is placed in direct confrontation with a variety of information sources , print.form , audio visual and three-dimensional , in small groups or on his own , in a situation which requires his active involvement and which can to a greater or lesser extent be tailored to meet his individual needs . |
| 7 | She can with a true friend . |
| 8 | Similarly , the patients who injure themselves do not form a homogeneous group , but include individuals who can to a large extent be classified into three subgroups on the basis of the type of injury inflicted and the associated degree of suicidal intent : |
| 9 | Stir yourself if you can for a swim or join in the water polo , gymnastics , water basketball and volleyball and meet foreign friends . |
| 10 | Note that when you are acting for a seller of registered land ( unlike unregistered ) , the plan attached to the transfer must be signed by the seller alone , and not by the seller 's agent — not even by the seller 's conveyancer as you can for a buyer . |
| 11 | Then you put your left hand over the glass , swirl it round two or three times in mid-air , slam the glass down hard as you can on a hard surface and drink the lot in one . |
| 12 | well they go in the week , you can on a Saturday |
| 13 | Find out as much as you can about a job before you apply for it , and certainly before you have an interview . |
| 14 | Two more things — will you find out everything you can about a man called Oscar Lennis , Assistant Managing Director of the T. and T. shipping company , and formerly in the air-freight business on his own account ? |
| 15 | The thing is putting the if what you can round a bed is n't it , you can ? |
| 16 | Practice yelling as loud as you can in a big , deep voice by taking a deep breath and letting the yell come from your stomach , not from your throat . |
| 17 | A collection of questions will not necessarily give you a coherent focus for your essay , so you need to encapsulate as many as you can in a single basic question . |
| 18 | Africa proved to be a paradise where Mr Sandy could pursue his favourite hobby of birdwatching : ‘ It was a most enjoyable tour from the birdwatching point of view because you can see more species in one day in Africa than you can in a year in Scotland . ’ |
| 19 | I suppose you can get can you get so many up you can in a lot of places ca n't you ? |
| 20 | You can in a minute , yeah . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , a rather upsetting aspect to the revolutionary planet Uranus , which takes place on 30 March , seems likely to bring a disagreement over finances to a head — and therefore your first priority this April must be to salvage what you can from a rather costly alliance . |
| 22 | I keep reminding myself that this was a film , a work of art , a dramatic illusion , but it 's not easy to detach yourself from a film , as you can from a play . ’ |
| 23 | Are we going to hide the ravages of time as cleverly as we can for a few more years , or gradually make the necessary adaptations in order to create a new image that is not a faded version of the old but corresponds in an attractive and lively way to the new stage in life which we have reached ? |
| 24 | Except that we can on a full page sell up because there are a couple of premium slots like the one you see there inside |
| 25 | Erm I think we can as a technicality |
| 26 | : Fb The kind of erm cinema that will have being two-screens , it 's going to allow the sort of variety that probably the Regal in the past was n't able to give to them , because we can as a policy have a constantly erm a constant turnover of different films . |
| 27 | Here the parachutes are of a different design , less easily guided and the team land on or as near they can to a four hundred metre line from two thousand feet . |
| 28 | ‘ And there are some boys who are just out to go as far as they can with a girl and get rid of her after a couple of days . |
| 29 | They can in a matter of milliseconds make a transition from the liquid state to a ‘ weak solid ’ state with solid-like properties . |
| 30 | It is not as efficient as either in their own fields , but performs very much better than they can in a situation where a significant enquiry facility is necessary and where the data is frequently processed sequentially . |