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

No	Sentence
1	But it 's the same as England , really ; some of them can handle me and some of them ca n't .
2	Now er some of them can stop you see .
3	I 've got five or six people here who have been water-skiing all their lives , and there 's no way any of them can do it . ’
4	A point of typographical interest is that the printers of broadside notices and ballads continued to use the old ‘ black letter ’ or Gothic founts of type long after they had been discarded in favour of the Roman letter for printed books ; so that many of them can take us back in spirit and atmosphere to the Gutenberg Bible and Caxton working at the Sign of the Red Pale in Westminster .
5	‘ None of them can surpass you when it comes to interpreting a dream , ’ Myra said loyally , and Claudia managed to laugh .
6	Whe whereas the building trade would say oh I 'll take you , you 're a friend of mine , I 'll take you you 're a friend of I can take you , you 're a friend .
7	There are roughly three kinds all of which can use one or a mixture of dance styles .
8	The message is : we want instant gratification , but we do n't think any of you can deliver it .
9	And when it 's come it 's usually been a case of you can smell something horrible like erm you know when they 're emptying the slurries out in the pig farms .
10	When I 've known you all since kindergarten and any one of you can wear me out ? ’
11	You now standing on my right are the person I left on the bench , and you on my left are someone else , and neither of you can deceive me any longer . "
12	Not every one of you can see me and I do not see each of you .
13	Again , it is , as Sen puts it , ‘ the tradition of thinking in terms of what exists rather than in terms of who can command what ’ ( Sen 1981 : 8 , quoted in Redclift 1982 : 1 ) which ignores the vital question of access to food production and the fuel to cook it .
14	It 's a version of We Can Work It Out … by cats and dogs .
15	‘ Where the occupier of premises agrees for reward that a person shall have the right to enter and use them for a mutually contemplated purpose , the contract between the parties ( unless it provides to the contrary ) contains an implied warranty that the premises are as safe for that purpose as reasonable care and skill on the part of anyone can make them . ’
16	‘ None of us can accompany him without arousing suspicion , ’ Murtach pointed out .
17	‘ Seriously ; it does n't work that way ; neither of us can leave it alone .
18	And none of us can slow it down .
19	If she wo n't let you I 'll help you and if neither of us can do it quietly we 'll call my master to do it for us .
20	My dear chap , a different path lies before each man and no one of us can tell what road he may chance to follow . ’
21	None of us can remember everyone we 've met , everything we 've done , and yet most can store away in their memory the things that we want to remember .
22	You 've obviously got to jog our memories a little further cos none of us can remember it .
23	But if we are all determined by a grand unified theory , none of us can help what we do , so why should anyone be held responsible fur what they do ?
24	All of us can play our own part in the struggle for justice and development worldwide .
25	‘ That , Dr Jardine , is not challenge many of us can say we have met .
26	That 's the thing about drink : some of us can take it , and some of us ca n't .
27	But come on , come on , the three of us can get him in .
28	If you have to put this stuff in I think that you should be obliged to include a joke so that the rest of us can get something from it .
29	We 've got a fight on our hands , and whether we agree with Oscar 's methods or not — and just for the record , I do n't — surely none of us can doubt his integrity . ’
30	Chatting often produces some very interesting ideas for serving and preparing the food and all of us can learn something from each other in casual conversation .