Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [verb] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think you can do a third one year and then try and raise some more money over the next few years and do another third . |
| 2 | If you are feeling adventurous and you have a lot of children coming , you can make a second wall with pieces of chocolate surrounding it representing Humpty Dumpty having fallen off the wall . |
| 3 | If you have a glass panelled door , you can fit a second pane inside . |
| 4 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 5 | It 's a disease which , if it a , they 're fortunate enough to re , recover from the disease , if it 's been severe enough the inflammation may have involved er , some of the cranial nerves , and here we can see a third nerve palsy er as a result of er , the process . |
| 6 | Dad reckons we can get a second contract done within two weeks . |
| 7 | But the actual implementation of this Christian philosophy often fell far short of these standards , and throughout the modern era we can trace a second layer , summed up in the phrase ‘ the double standard ’ , which enjoined chastity on the female while allowing a large degree of sexual freedom for the male . |
| 8 | Suffice it here to point to what we can call a third , or micro- , level of decision making , the other two being the level of allocating as between health and , for example , defence ; and the other , between different sections within health care . |
| 9 | At the moment New Yorkers can survey the length and breadth of his achievement at the galleries of the Americas Society on Park Avenue and coming up in January they can have a second look in a big retrospective of the artist 's work at the Studio Museum in Harlem . |
| 10 | ‘ Many who had planned to stay at home will now go away , others will feel they can afford a second holiday . ’ |
| 11 | It can provide a third or fourth hand wherever needed , and no matter for how long . |
| 12 | Obviously we did n't , he can get a third when we can only get , when there were only two of us because there were n't enough , enough threes to go round and I mean |