Example sentences of "[prep] they [pers pn] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is any justification in using them , it 's not that they accurately reproduce the eighteenth century , but that through them we can clear our way back to it through all the nineteenth-century ironmongery put in our way by what , musically , I regard as a particularly corrupting and polluting century . |
| 2 | Through them we can come to know ourselves and others a little better . |
| 3 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
| 4 | Erm if it 's if you 're desperate for them we can rush it in |
| 5 | If it did it for them it can do it for me ! ’ |
| 6 | He is confident that between them they can do their bit towards the deciding Test in a gripping series with Pakistan ‘ being remembered for the right reasons . ’ |
| 7 | The curving windows at the stern are freckled with spray ; through one of them you can make out a set of fat capstans and a listless macaroni of sodden rope . |
| 8 | So some of them you can work out buy if you know what a transformer does , it steps down all of the current , it reduces the voltage . |
| 9 | Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down . |
| 10 | I mean normally I do n't bother with the tokens , I mean I Anyway I paid the cheque and I said to Peter I said oh by the way what about me tokens for me for me toy I said if I get a free one of them I can give it to give it to the grandchildren . |
| 11 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
| 12 | I want time to look for my children , and see how many of them I can find . |
| 13 | With them he can reprogram the Conscience to overcome the Voord 's immunisation , and re-establish peace on Marinus . |
| 14 | ‘ Children will be the special target if you start with them you can build in good habits for later life . ’ |
| 15 | True , you will have to put up with unearthing all manner of car parts , everything from exhaust-pipes to wheel trims , but mixed in with them you can expect to find plenty of items lost by earlier travellers . |
| 16 | With them you can buy just about whatever your little capitalist heart desires . |
| 17 | Many hundreds of casts of these human fossils have since been made , and from them we can learn a good deal about the last appalling hours in the life of Pompeii . |
| 18 | The names of moneyers would not otherwise be known ; from them we can reconstruct the careers of Roman politicians . |
| 19 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , ‘ you people have a habit sometimes of coming here to Israel with some specific details and thinking that from them you can deduce some universal truth . |
| 20 | You select the facts that are telling ( pun intended ) , the facts that will advance your story or make clear your characters or even make your locations easy to assimilate , and you hope that from them you can produce something that is not too far distant from the unwritable reality . |
| 21 | Beyond them they can see other mighty divinities , Jesusmary-andallthesaints , Peterandpaul , Mathewmarklukeandjohn . |
| 22 | I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ? |
| 23 | Well that have actually been told that if anything comes in providing This is what I ca n't get through We 've said to them you can bring your radios in but give to Brian first . |
| 24 | ‘ If they can stand dogs piddling on them they can stand a bit o' paint . ’ |
| 25 | If there 's no work for 'em they can go home for the day . |