Example sentences of "[pron] can [vb infin] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can do the last bit , ’ she said hastily , exerting a steely self-control . |
| 2 | Well I can answer the second one first . |
| 3 | ‘ He thinks I can manage the first two years ' bills at Dickie 's new school , but after that I 'll be cleaned out , so God alone knows what 'll happen . |
| 4 | I can announce the second scheme on the industrial side ; a joint scheme financed by the CBI ( Confederation of British Industry ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm now 36th in the European merit order , but I feel I can make the first 25 ’ , said big hitter Clarke before teeing off in Switzerland . |
| 6 | ‘ If I can crash the 20-second barrier in the final and nick a bronze , then I 'll be one happy Englishman . ’ |
| 7 | I can read the first question , A , spices for cooking |
| 8 | With an odd feeling that he was asking because it was expected of him rather than out of genuine interest , she replied somewhat stiltedly , ‘ Once I 've a clear picture of the items to be displayed , and which room they 're to go in , I can begin the first rough draft for the catalogue . ’ |
| 9 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 10 | Y'know , I can remember the first time I wore them . |
| 11 | I can remember the first time I got drunk on Scotch . |
| 12 | I can , I can remember the first drawing , you used to draw a house and you |
| 13 | I can remember the first time I ever |
| 14 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 15 | It 's five in the morning and I can hear the first cars swooshing through empty streets . |
| 16 | Three grand goes a fair way among the widows and apprentices , particularly as nobody can remember the last time there was an apprentice in the village . |
| 17 | The only other Mira stars which can reach the fourth magnitude are Chi Cygni , in the Swan , and R Hydræ , in the Watersnake . |
| 18 | Thus the number of vacant cells left which can accommodate the next molecule will be |
| 19 | More important for them is the other alternative which can follow the first primitive stage : feudalism . |
| 20 | So far , I 've given two to friends in hospital and one to an elderly neighbour , who 's begged me to let her have another one so that she can pass the first one on . |
| 21 | If the person picks up the keys , then he or she can become the next sleeping beauty . |
| 22 | She can enjoy the last freedom to be as she is ; her pursuits may seem strange , but after her death it may be discovered that her treasured collection — of old cups , pressed flowers , or newspaper cuttings — is quite priceless . |
| 23 | Erm who can do the first sentence for me . |
| 24 | ‘ Give me a couple of minutes , then you can send the first one in . ’ |
| 25 | and then start losing confidence , wasting time , if you 've got some check , like that , right , okay , so if you like to work that one out , you should n't have any problem with the , the second bar , if you can do the first one . |
| 26 | You can do the next one all right . |
| 27 | If that is difficult , mimic suprasegmentals first , and then see if the utterance can be divided into several parts so you can mimic the last part first , and then add to it bit by bit . |
| 28 | Once all the letters are found , the object is to unscramble them to make up the phrase and you can make the first person the winner . |
| 29 | You can plot the second position line you crossed as a true bearing on your chart or map , and mark the distance ( see fig 39 ) . |
| 30 | You can plot the second position line you crossed as a true bearing on your chart or map and mark the distance . |