Example sentences of "[pers pn] can do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I can do that ampersand that or those two cells have got range names the range names . |
2 | Well , he 's doing it , last wee I would n't mind doing the Wednesday actually cos I can do that sort of you know , student discos , you know , so |
3 | Paul recognized this when he wrote : ‘ I can do all things through Christ , who strengthens me ’ . |
4 | This is the nature of Christian joy through suffering , which reconciles the negative with the transcendent love of Christ , enabling us to say , like Paul the apostle : ‘ I can do all things through Christ , who strengthens me . ’ |
5 | Then he explained how he had found this incredible contentment : ‘ I can do all things through him who gives me strength . ’ |
6 | I can do all things in him who strengthens me . |
7 | ‘ I can do all things in him who strengthens me . ’ |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | And Mrs Black ses I can do joined-up writin' , ’ he added , scrambling to his feet . |
11 | But I can do many things that you do not understand . |
12 | it saves me having to do three weekends , I can do two weekends next term instead of three |
13 | I can do one thing in the light , and that 's send and treat for him in open negotiation . |
14 | I can do sixteen mile an hour now , instead of eight . |
15 | I can do difficult jigsaws |
16 | She can try them on then , so that I can do any alterations that are necessary . |
17 | Perhaps I 'll die from natural causes before I can do any mischief . |
18 | I ca n't give you a figure now , on how many American firms there are in the county , erm , but I can do some work on it and come back to you . |
19 | I can do some jobs that he gits in the way of . |
20 | I can do some writing there , read his books , meet a few people . ’ |
21 | So you 're quite happy with that , one hundred , two hundred , three hundred , four hundred , five hundred , six hundred oh I can do this standing on my head , right and you s you stop concentrating so much , and you 've gone up to , so that should be a seven hundred |
22 | Knitters now ask me if I can do these ballet cardigans with my eyes shut . |
23 | ‘ The men think that I can do disappearing tricks , too ! ’ thinks Carl . |
24 | I can do most things on that , but the one thing I 've always had a problem getting with that type of preamp setup is the kind of crunchy combo sound . |
25 | Well yeah , but I do n't think the job 's erm , I mean that 's not the problem for her because she can always go on the agency you see and she can do general midwifery |
26 | In a parade she can do little things like look into her Daily Mirror . |
27 | ‘ Now she can do half passes , shoulder-in and pirouettes . |
28 | H you can do higher hopping and P fast and R round you got ta turn around with a skipping rope and W waives . |
29 | He 's got a pair of shearing scissors and he 's been doing like , this boy 's African , so he 's got , you know , Afro hair , which you can do curly-wurly signs on the back of him , it looks pretty neat . |
30 | So here 's the hypothesis to explain that ellipsis is confined to constituents where constituents are just what they sound like , genuine components of a larger thing which is signalled by sticking brackets , labelled brackets round them so they make a phrase and you can do certain things with them . |