Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] you can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can either frost the cooled cake as usual or you can warm up the frosting and pour it over the cake like a glaze . |
| 2 | Do it as that or you can do it after three months , yes I mean |
| 3 | Erm you know you can look at that or you can put a protractor on it and |
| 4 | and then erm in July , you do you do n't have to pay out a ha'penny till July and you can either pay cash and get your sixteen percent off free or you can pay terms from July . |
| 5 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 6 | ‘ The Prophet made it clear that you can have up to four wives , ’ she said . |
| 7 | and that 's not counted in your , in your calories , you can just eat that , it 's all free so you can eat as much as you like of that . |
| 8 | Likewise , ask people to tell you what is wrong so you can change what you do . |
| 9 | Adjust the height of the fitting so that it does n't obscure your view across the table while you 're eating , but is n't so high that you can look into the shade at the bulb . |
| 10 | Mirco is Czech and Annette is half-French so you can expect some creative cuisine here . |
| 11 | Is this so you can make do they let you keep the stuff at the end ? |
| 12 | What , what we need to do we 've got a handout for you on this so you can spend more time looking at yourself , or what you need to do is you need to compare your scores against those rather than just take the highest one . |
| 13 | Well , you should n't trust him further than you can throw him . |
| 14 | Wall fabrics are generally more expensive than papers but can often make the walls look so luxurious that you can get away with minimal furnishings . |
| 15 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 16 | Okay what I 'll do is go through this and you can ask questions as we go through . |
| 17 | Listen , I 'm going to tell you this and you can believe it or not : Uncle Mosse had been dead about a week when they took me in to identify him . |
| 18 | Erm , well , at the moment I 'm involved in a a big project , new benefits claims , erm , and so if the new claims system could echo which priorities in that department , erm , and it looks like it will be long drawn out eventually at the end of next year , nationwide and effectively it 's a English processing system whereby terms coming in and they 're scanned and you can see images on a screen , so there 's gon na be no calls , what my , what my role in this is , gon na be to get the branches to accept the system . |
| 19 | Be interesting cos you can hear exactly what they 're saying , mm I say people like Simon and Doreen who do n't erm televise much and you 've got the telephone you told me do n't you ? |
| 20 | Practise this until you can bring the model to a stop , in the hover , a few inches from the ground and just in front of you . |
| 21 | Do n't get old if you can avoid it . |
| 22 | In most cases , providing the timbers in your roof are sound and you can walk about up there , you can easily insulate the loft yourself . |
| 23 | You will find it much easier if you can bring yourself to take the very positive attitude that today the two of you are going to share just a few hours of life together : time that can never come again . |
| 24 | Oh it 's too easy this cos you can do it in your head . |
| 25 | Be different if you can do that . |
| 26 | The domestic situation in which things take place , they are really very different and you can start to draw up categories , of course , of countries , small big maybe , small medium big democratic non-democratic , er military dictatorships civilian government erm and so on , so there are whole series of categories of governments that you can draw up and you can say well these do make a difference in the way erm foreign policy is created . |
| 27 | These statistics go on and on — quite interesting if you can fight your way through the jin and mu to find out what is really happening — and are frequently laced with political remarks about following ‘ our great leader Chairman Mao 's revolutionary line ’ , and the ‘ wise leadership of Chairman Hua ’ , with the inevitable explanation of how the Gang of Four sabotaged agriculture , just as they sabotaged everything else . |
| 28 | ’ Im responsible for themusic if you can call it that ’ |
| 29 | I c I , I wo n't be able to do any of this but you can have a quick go . |
| 30 | ‘ Footballers at the top used to be finished between 28 and 30 but you can prolong your playing life by nearly ten years if you look after yourself . |