Example sentences of "you can [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can borrow small sums for a short period of time or you can borrow large amounts for many years , such as a mortgage . |
| 2 | You can borrow small sums for a short period of time or you can borrow large amounts for many years , such as a mortgage . |
| 3 | If there are two of you buying , you can borrow 2.5 times your combined income . |
| 4 | You can personalise standard documents by adding a few sentences in your own language . |
| 5 | If you ever run short of money on holiday , you can cash personal cheques , or change currency and travellers cheques , at most of our l , 500 Travel Service and Representative Offices around the world . |
| 6 | You can change any colours , but use colours names already in use — green , brightgreen etc . |
| 7 | Ah , but what about this remarkable new diet formula from America which tells you that you can eat vast quantities of melon and chicken , or spinach and prunes , or pineapple , or whatever , as long as you keep to this one food , or this combination of two foods , for the whole day ? |
| 8 | You can fritter away hours on end watching Johnny do what he does . |
| 9 | You can telephone 7 days a week to order and we 'll take 20% OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER TOO ! |
| 10 | But so long as these terms and conditions are reasonable , you 'll have to stick to them if you 're buying for a business ; as an individual buyer you can ignore such distractions and fall back on your statutory rights . |
| 11 | A lot of people think because you 've got four sockets you can bang four pieces of apparatus . |
| 12 | You can identify alternative decisions , alternative behaviours , look at the consequences of those . |
| 13 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 14 | Bring them in , show that you 've actually thought more generally and you can see how you can bring different parts of the syllabus in because that 's the novelty , that 's what makes a piece of work stand out . |
| 15 | Yes you can choose other things now . |
| 16 | Clearly the great advantage of thinking about your visual as well as your verbal behaviour is that you can choose visual behaviours which help rather than hinder progress towards your objective . |
| 17 | If you have a purpose in life , you can feel six inches tall . |
| 18 | I also think you can feel such sensations in places where great acts of religious worship have taken place . |
| 19 | You can feel these things . |
| 20 | The recreational facilities range from horse-riding to para-sailing , while inland from the Club the countryside is criss-crossed with tracks for walking where you can discover rural villages , lone mosques and secret lakes among the low hills . |
| 21 | If , on the other hand , you can offer other advantages in your marketing mix , there may be no pressure at all to reduce your price . |
| 22 | ‘ You can stuff those warrants right up the Corps commander 's bum . ’ |
| 23 | You can cycle/walk 12 kilometres along the disused railway line from West Saltoun , through Pencaitland and Ormiston to Crossgatehall . |
| 24 | He 's got a pair of shearing scissors and he 's been doing like , this boy 's African , so he 's got , you know , Afro hair , which you can do curly-wurly signs on the back of him , it looks pretty neat . |
| 25 | So here 's the hypothesis to explain that ellipsis is confined to constituents where constituents are just what they sound like , genuine components of a larger thing which is signalled by sticking brackets , labelled brackets round them so they make a phrase and you can do certain things with them . |
| 26 | You can do simple experiments comparing transparent watercolour and gouache to see which type of paint is more suitable to your own technique . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're building a chain at a time when you can do good deals on the rent , ’ said Mr Chapman . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ You can do many things in the UK , but your talents will rarely get recognised . |
| 29 | Investment bonds we have n't covered , and they are a variation of a unit trust really , but they 're issued by live companies , and you can do other things with them , and they have got tax advantages . |
| 30 | Say there we are you can add twelve add twelve or you can do two times |