Example sentences of "can [vb infin] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in fruit the lower part of the flower inflates and the ripe seed inside can rattle around , giving this plant the alternative name of ‘ red rattle ’ . |
| 2 | No pressure group can wait around forever for a change of government that may never come . |
| 3 | huh , what , I 'm sulking yes so I can hang around to whoever I want to hang around with |
| 4 | I am the one person you can trust around here . |
| 5 | It is a tautology to say that English spelling is excellent because the reader can Jump around for clues on so many different levels ( semantic , visual , phonic , contextual , etymological , and so on ) . |
| 6 | Therefore I would say a poem such as " I wandered lonely as a cloud " is not a good subject for one picture — because the poet can jump around over such a vast expanse and bring image after image to mind : |
| 7 | Cos you can jump around you see , you can |
| 8 | The reason why there is such a consensus about Europe in Germany is that everyone can unite around this vague concept . |
| 9 | What they want out of a gang fight is a nice big bruise … that they can show around during the week . ’ |
| 10 | It can drill around corners , sideways , in a curve , and even uphill . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course , there 's a way you can work around playing a minor blues in a major tuning — in open G , for instance , you just play the top three strings at the third fret and that gives you a B flat major chord that you can use as a G minor — but it still felt pretty limiting . |
| 12 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 13 | Once you have thoroughly reorganized your existing storage you can look around for new surfaces to conquer . |
| 14 | ‘ I want very much to establish two comic homosexual characters and they can revolve around a figure of the establishment like a Richard Dimbleby character — decency , Establishment values . ’ |
| 15 | I can run around a pitch 25 times , no problem . |
| 16 | Your presence may help to concentrate its mind , however , and you can establish a routine whereby it can run around and play for a few minutes after it has performed as desired . |
| 17 | That 's that 's it until I know or I know what I 'm actually looking for in it I can run around chasing me tail all day which |
| 18 | I felt bloody awful this week , but erm at least I can run around a bit , come on Henry bally down , bally down , sit , good boy , go charging off up there and if you throw it , you wo n't see where it goes it 's so dark . |
| 19 | It can provide general lighting so you can move around safely and see more or less what you are doing when it 's dark outside ; task lighting when you want more concentrated light in a particular area for a particular job ( including reading ) ; mood lighting to provide different atmospheres in different rooms at different times ; and it can also be used to illuminate the outside of the home . |
| 20 | This ‘ mobility gap ’ separates the occupied ‘ delocalised ’ states that contain the mobile electrons ( and are so-called precisely because they can move around in the semiconductor ) from vacant delocalised states in higher Landau levels . |
| 21 | An elderly parent living alone invariably has problems to cope with , though , in some area of life , and ideally the people to help them should be members of their own family ; people who know their character and understand their needs , those they do not have to make an effort to relate to and trust , and who can move around freely in their homes , to sort through the various ‘ pockets ’ of their anxiety more easily than any stranger can do . |
| 22 | If you invite only three or four , the conversation may become general , and you are likely to be left out , so be bold : invite twenty people , then you can move around , making contact with individuals as you ply them with food and drink , or sit with one person for a short chat before moving on to another . |
| 23 | Needles can be placed in the ears , hands , legs and lower back and contrary to what you might imagine , you can move around during labour with the needles in . |
| 24 | It has also been found experimentally that the columns formed by a layer of viscous liquid falling over an edge can move around chaotically . |
| 25 | you can move around , I was sa , wearing it in the kitchen yesterday , you can move around and it 's er |
| 26 | you can move around , I was sa , wearing it in the kitchen yesterday , you can move around and it 's er |
| 27 | So we can move around . |
| 28 | The polecat and its grown family will know to keep as far away from the path and its numbered posts as possible , except in the dead of night when they can sniff around and pick up some bits of Kit-Kat . |
| 29 | Another one , while we 're talking names , is Big Track , which is a lovely little programmable tank which , that you can guide around , round the carpet and put in programmed instructions . |
| 30 | But this is like the argument about nature and the biosphere : of whether you can mess around with it as much as you like , and expect it to survive . |