Example sentences of "[det] [prep] them can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's the same as England , really ; some of them can handle me and some of them ca n't . |
| 2 | Similarly , there are a number of actors who specialize in doing the commentary or ‘ voice over ’ on commercials : some of them can do a variety of voices and accents very convincingly , but others become extremely recognizable and , in effect , boringly over-exposed . |
| 3 | Two hundred pounds a week , some of them can earn . ’ |
| 4 | Now er some of them can stop you see . |
| 5 | The thing about the Paddies is that some of them can pass as English if they 've been brought up here . |
| 6 | Some of them can revel in the return of their long lost river . |
| 7 | What baffles me is how few of them can spell . |
| 8 | A few of them can afford to rely upon a single organization to offer them work throughout the year . |
| 9 | The crackling of a fire , the dawn chorus of the birds , the sound of waves upon the shore ; most of these go unnoticed and yet each of them can give a great deal of pleasure if we could only learn to become aware of them . |
| 10 | There are nine genes , and each of them can take any of 19 values . |
| 11 | But neither of them can match the pungency of the original , an atmosphere of beaujolais , cigars and malevolence , and of political or legal plots being brewed in the all-night brasseries of Les Halles . |
| 12 | Yet many of them come to terms with it magnificently , trying so hard not to add their pain to that of their children , in a situation that sometimes neither of them can alter . |
| 13 | Neither of them can see . |
| 14 | If we are making up a play about the " Keeper of the Keys " , why do you think that neither of them can see ? |
| 15 | Their partners are making dollars faster than either of them can count , some of it in black market trading . |
| 16 | But now many of them can stand up in front of the gate and talk back to the managing director . |
| 17 | Yeah , but I wonder how many of them can answer these questions |
| 18 | How many of them can dance sing and act ? |
| 19 | Spiders are close relatives of scorpions and many of them can deliver a painful bite . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A defect in any of them can disturb the balance of the whole system , and the use of the right drug to restore balance had evident possibilities , if the right drugs could be discovered or invented . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | There may be many reasons why a patient under hypnosis is able to experience past-life regression ( or , as the doubters might call it , ‘ flights of fancy ’ ) , but any of them can play a significant part in the overcoming of that patient 's particular problem . |
| 24 | ‘ If any of them can play by Saturday ( when Rangers face Celtic ) , that will be time enough for me , ’ said Roxburgh . |
| 25 | But any of them can cause problems when misused . |
| 26 | And , talking to these teachers , I ca n't for the life of me see what motive any of them can have . |
| 27 | Jasper Carrott and Phil Cool : Middlesbrough Town Hall It is always good to see big-name comedy acts reaching the North-East other than in Newcastle , more especially when there are two such acts and both of them can keep a crowd laughing all evening . |
| 28 | But most of them can take solace in that their performances are n't being reflected in the results of late . |