Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] can [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If that 's all you 're worried about I can explain simply enough . ’ |
| 2 | Oh look it 's one of these that 's nice because you can just sort of nothing can come in behind you and that sort of thing . |
| 3 | And the strongest of them can kick twice , not just 300 metres from the line but again at ten metres . |
| 4 | But now many of them can stand up in front of the gate and talk back to the managing director . |
| 5 | This tragic game can go on for the rest of their lives or one of them can decide enough is enough and withdraw . |
| 6 | The thing about the Paddies is that some of them can pass as English if they 've been brought up here . |
| 7 | Which proves my point about teachers ; even the best of them can go completely over the top , for no reason whatsoever . |
| 8 | You will learn about how they all depend on each other and about how the destruction of any one of them can have far reaching consequences . |
| 9 | If he 's there , one of them can trot off and let us know , then we can poodle round and petrol bomb the place . |
| 10 | There is n't a back door and I doubt whether even you with that charmed life of yours can come up with a way out of this one . ’ |
| 11 | Then he whispered ‘ Callanish , Callanish , from you come the greatest of our kind and the strongest , and none of yours can die here . |
| 12 | Thorough preparation of the plot before sowing also say off those other perennial horrors , couch and horsetail , both of which can go down 6ft or more and spread in all directions . |
| 13 | The Liverpool-based operation has recently designed , developed and installed 25 new document scanning machines , each of which can handle up to 25,000 pools coupons an hour . |
| 14 | It brings a fleet of seven 44-seater British Aerospace aircraft to Liverpool , each of which can carry up to six tonnes of freight . |
| 15 | BRITAIN has some 2000 large reservoirs , each of which can hold more than 23 million litres of water . |
| 16 | This will be called compound , and its main characteristic is that it can be analysed into two words , both of which can exist independently as English words . |
| 17 | That a legal system should develop two separate concepts of ownership , both of which can apply simultaneously to the same property , and effectively two separate legal systems , is by no means self-evident . |
| 18 | The 68360 combines a 68020-based 32-bit central processing core and a RISC-based communications controller managing four high-bandwidth serial communications channels , each of which can support up to eight major communications protocols . |
| 19 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 20 | Must be somewhere where the both of you can meet up . |
| 21 | And if some of you can do well out of it and it will help you keep your homes , because at the end of the day , without our home , where are we ? |
| 22 | Neither of you can leave here until I have seen the photographs and the writing . ’ |
| 23 | Erm , instead of you can combine directly a range from one file into another file . |
| 24 | ‘ Which of you can take on men ? ’ he sniggered . |
| 25 | For example , if we take those words there , I I hope that most of you can work out that that says , the cat , right , some of you can be difficult and say that you ca n't but I should think that most of you can . |
| 26 | Well part of it can leave again , but as it is more is getting trapped inside so it 's getting hotter |
| 27 | He describes a ‘ good-enough mother ’ ( i.e. , a mother as good at being a mother as any of us can expect either to have or to be ) as someone who ‘ starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant 's needs , and as time proceeds she adapts less and less completely , gradually according to the infant 's growing ability to deal with her failure . ’ |
| 28 | Continuing upon the familiar submissive theme , Rogers asserts that while the apprehension of " great art in its fullness is a goal none of us can hope fully to attain " , it remains " a worthy objective just the same " . |
| 29 | He asked Americans ‘ to contribute today so that all of us can prosper tomorrow . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ None of us can understand how he fell — the window is only 2ft square . ’ |