Example sentences of "[pron] can [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can tell from Lil 's face , she ca n't decide whether to be diabolically proud of her achievements , or mortally ashamed . |
| 2 | I have n't any real friends , but I can tell from Madame Rochard and Miss Lucchesi and the other girls whom I see coming and going from lessons . |
| 3 | I think to myself that I can serve in opposition , make my case and perhaps win the next election , so I accept the result . |
| 4 | Well that 's , that 's well that 's all I can recollect in relation to why we did it the way we did . |
| 5 | Now I can walk up hill without puffing and can bend down without grunting . |
| 6 | I can not afford to send donations to every appeal that comes through my letterbox , but I can walk for miles in glorious locations and sit for hours enjoying the birds in my garden . |
| 7 | Well as long as I can walk with Manda . |
| 8 | I 'm walking on water — I 'm Jesus , I can walk on water ! |
| 9 | ‘ I can walk on water or turn water into wine , ’ he said . |
| 10 | From what I can gather from Joanie , she 's been taking drugs since her last year at school . |
| 11 | Right so I 'll erm sort of see what I can do with Julie . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Dalglish knows the job I can do for Blackburn — I presume it will be in midfield . ’ |
| 13 | " It seems there is nothing I can do except voice my opinion . |
| 14 | Idiot Peter Bottomley , Minister for , I do n't know — roads , bridges , exportable heads — once said : ‘ There 's nothing I can do about traffic in London . |
| 15 | ‘ From an abomination like yourself , ’ she retorts , ‘ I can do without lectures on Jewish life . ’ |
| 16 | Yes yes right I 'll see what I can do by September I should be able to do a fair bit by then Yeah well I say I 've done the doll , that 's for August that 's for the er Beckley fete but it 's for , Friends of Beckley Church and it 's guess the doll 's birth date which as you said as you said it should have two |
| 17 | ‘ There is not a lot I can do in relation to the Rumbelows League Cup semi-final with Manchester United . |
| 18 | I can conduct in front of the mirror , but if I was conducting an orchestra and something went wrong I could not put it back on the rails again . ’ |
| 19 | As Julia explains : ‘ I can differentiate between light and dark and I can hear voices , though not what 's being said , with my ‘ ears ’ in . ’ |
| 20 | I can hassle for business contacts in these areas at conferences as soon as I get to a conference . |
| 21 | And at least I can sleep at night . ’ |
| 22 | I know you see which side my fence is buttered , and if I can bring to football the organisational skills that have made me such a big fish in retailing , then Athletico Whaddon need have no fear of ending up on the slab . |
| 23 | I can stand in front of the screen , I can look at the simulations , I can stop them whenever I want to stop them and look at them , it gives me ideas about how the buildings might have looked at that time and it gives me a whole range of variations as to as to what can be done in terms of their reconstructions . |
| 24 | Since it is inevitable , I wish I could come to terms with it , but I find the only way I can cope at present is to avoid thinking about it . |
| 25 | I can cope with things in a better manner and am able to take on far more . |
| 26 | ‘ I can cope with football but one thing I ca n't cope with is treachery , and that 's what I had at Swindon . ’ |
| 27 | AT2 : ‘ I can cope with kids … get the best out of pupils … motivate them … too much towards exams perhaps , but that 's partly their fault ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Well , ta ta , I 'm off to see what I can discover about Mr Mystery . |
| 29 | As far as I can discover from replies received or from the 1959 College Register the rest of us , either from choice or to fulfil the conditions of grants or the needs of wartime , became teachers , the length of our service varying accordingly . |
| 30 | As regards the distribution of lands between the districts , erm if I can refer to Mr Curtis 's comments first , the Greater York study never anticipated that the distribution of housing around the Greater York the districts would be based around the percentage of population within those districts , but purely on capacity of sites within those districts to accommodate future housing growth without compromising greenbelt objectives , Ryedale , as I 've said before , has taken the largest proportion of recent housing in the Greater York area , and has identified a substantial amount of new land for housing within its Southern Ryedale local plan , what the District Council is concerned about is that within the local , Southern Ryedale local plans , this is taking a large proportion of its district wide total plans , yet the District Council from the structure plan figure given is unable to calculate the remainder of housing that should be allocated in the remainder of its district . |