Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] can [vb infin] all " in BNC.

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1 I , I mean I can understand all this but I 'm , I 'm just asking
2 Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this .
3 ‘ They say you can tell all about a person from looking at his books , ’ said Constance , who had become addicted to book-collecting since she had acquired a car-load of secondhand volumes from a fair in the Midlands .
4 His shoulders suggest he can paddle all day .
5 Paul again when he 's writing to the Philippians , in chapter four and verse thirteen , he says I can do all things , oh how arrogant of you Paul , how boastful you are , oh no he did n't just finish there did he , he says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me , and writing to the Romans in that tremendous eighth chapter of Romans and verse thirty seven he says in all these things , in all the problems of life , in all the difficulties and all the temptations , in all the pressures that we are called to go through he says , in all of these things we overwhelmingly concur , we are triumphant he says , how , through him who loved us .
6 Paul again when he 's writing to the Philippians , in chapter four and verse thirteen , he says I can do all things , oh how arrogant of you Paul , how boastful you are , oh no he did n't just finish there did he , he says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me , and writing to the Romans in that tremendous eighth chapter of Romans and verse thirty seven he says in all these things , in all the problems of life , in all the difficulties and all the temptations , in all the pressures that we are called to go through he says , in all of these things we overwhelmingly concur , we are triumphant he says , how , through him who loved us .
7 When , when you 've finished she says , I 'm sure she says you can have all the batteries and they 're all , they 're all Duracell an'all .
8 Unless you 're colour blind you can see all the different colours
9 So from your income , that we must have , says we can do all those things , and have our standard of living .
10 What makes you think you can change all this ? ’
11 Many parents comment that their child did the complete opposite of what was asked for several months and so the parents learned to say the opposite of what they wanted , for example , ‘ I really do n't want you to put your pyjamas on now ’ , or ‘ I do n't think you can eat all of that food ’ .
12 Do you think you can remember all that , or shall I write it down ? ’
13 Now if you like you can sign all it says is erm it just it 's just telling you what it is and saying that you do n't mind them typing up the words form this .
14 you know you can have all the fish courses , you can eat as much as that as you like , then they have all the , the meat courses
15 We know we can fund all that , because we know that we can raise the additional revenues we need , and we have told the British people where they will come from .
16 ‘ It 's not unreasonable to believe someone can win all four majors .
17 ‘ Certainly I have tremendous admiration for Leeds and feel they can go all the way to the European Cup final . ’
18 Alison escaped with only aches and pains from an accident which could easily have claimed her life … now she hopes she can put all the anxiety of the past few months behind her .
19 ‘ I think I can work all this out for myself . ’
20 ‘ The study means I can conduct all the business here , ’ says Melinda .
21 When you think you can go all the way from here to New Zealand for what , what was it ?
22 I think you can read all you want and talk to people as often as you want but , in my case , my understanding of Europe just simply did n't exist before I went there .
23 So that is a Jacquard , and that 's an electronic Jacquard , means you can do all sorts of different patterns now , where it used to be limited it 's unlimited now .
24 This means we can find all efficient solutions of VMP by solving the parametric programming problem LP ( 1 , θ ) for θ > 0 , using the procedures of Chapter 6 .
25 ‘ It would be unrealistic to say we can absorb all the cost of the VAT charge , ’ he said .
26 ‘ It would be unrealistic to say we can absorb all the cost of the VAT charge , ’ he said .
27 Erm not really you know maybe in an out of the way way they might but you know the type of musicians we are or whatever , you know we can do say I can do all the Irish stuff the up tempo rousing songs I can play Irish and Scottish dances and that kind of stuff , then Tony can do right across the board with easy listening stuff and country stuff and even one of the tracks on our new C D is er is er well what I would term a pop song .
28 But on there see you can see all the details ca n't you , at all .
29 See we can tape all these again .
30 His team is like Dumbo : no-one seriously believes it can fly all the way back here for next summer 's World Cup finals after losing 2–0 to an American side that chortled with disbelief .
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