Example sentences of "you can [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if we can get a proper public transport system , a properly funded public transport system which will make , you can force people off the roads but you can also force them to persuade the approach with a properly funded er public transport system which is A priced within the peoples pockets and B er you can lead to views that will be er , er will be a great advantage for the area and the fifth terminal at Heathrow could fall par to this structure but if this new structure is n't there and if it is n't part of this adequately funded transport system then there is no point in , in building it was as I said earlier be , be madness . |
| 2 | What You Can Do To Help |
| 3 | There 's only so much you can do to jazz up articles on the efficacy of heart tapping in achieving full blood drainage . |
| 4 | Are there bits of technical advice that you can give to people intending to apply to university ? |
| 5 | And she used to say , ‘ Now , Joe , you can go to school . ’ |
| 6 | But does that mean you can go to court and say ‘ My marriage is definitely over ’ and get an immediate divorce ? |
| 7 | You can go to court for an order to exclude your husband from your home or to forbid him from harassing you in any way . |
| 8 | You can go to sleep . |
| 9 | I 'll take it off when I come down stairs and you can go to sleep . |
| 10 | But if you 're tired you can go to sleep anywhere |
| 11 | Hooray , I , what a boy , you can go to King Arthur 's from here ? |
| 12 | You can go to bed and forget it . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , now you can go to bed . |
| 14 | But you know sleep escapes a young person , if one 's in their young twenties and they think you can go to bed at er half past two in the afternoon and have an hour or two . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , well , in that case you can go to bed and sleep easy . ’ |
| 16 | what do you do I mean , your ok you can go to bed , but there 's only a certain amount of hours you can stay in bed cos then you 're wondering and wondering and won so you 're more tired trying to find something to do so we |
| 17 | then after you 've watched that , then you can go to bed after Thunderbirds |
| 18 | You can go to work when the tape stops Well he 's not going to watch you sticking all those on at work what 's he gon na be doing . |
| 19 | Ah well you can go to Co-op then . |
| 20 | You can go to Silas for me . |
| 21 | You can go to museums and see the work of old craftsmen , but when they die , that 's it . |
| 22 | He goes on to argue that the bourgeoisie have always used sections from within the ‘ dangerous classes ’ to control those who are overtly troublesome , perhaps following the maxim that ‘ it takes a thief to catch a thief ’ , when he argues : ‘ for one and a half centuries the bourgeoisie offered the following choices : you can go to prison or join the Army ; you can go to prison or go to the colonies ; you can go to prison or you can join the police ’ ( ibid. 23 ) . |
| 23 | He goes on to argue that the bourgeoisie have always used sections from within the ‘ dangerous classes ’ to control those who are overtly troublesome , perhaps following the maxim that ‘ it takes a thief to catch a thief ’ , when he argues : ‘ for one and a half centuries the bourgeoisie offered the following choices : you can go to prison or join the Army ; you can go to prison or go to the colonies ; you can go to prison or you can join the police ’ ( ibid. 23 ) . |
| 24 | He goes on to argue that the bourgeoisie have always used sections from within the ‘ dangerous classes ’ to control those who are overtly troublesome , perhaps following the maxim that ‘ it takes a thief to catch a thief ’ , when he argues : ‘ for one and a half centuries the bourgeoisie offered the following choices : you can go to prison or join the Army ; you can go to prison or go to the colonies ; you can go to prison or you can join the police ’ ( ibid. 23 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ You know you can go to prison for failure to report a source of income like this ? ’ he said . |
| 26 | Now there 's y You can go to town on that one . |
| 27 | You can go to hell for all I care . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't give a damn about you ’ , ‘ You can go to hell ’ , ‘ You were the worst father/mother/daughter/son that anyone could wish to have ’ , are typical of the kind of remarks that can be made . |
| 29 | " You can go to hell ! " |
| 30 | ‘ You can go to hell ! ’ she yelled . |