Example sentences of "they can [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereby erm we do n't end up actually doing the things for them , but we show them the way that they can do them for themselves . |
| 2 | The RUC are anxious to speak to the driver of a maroon Maestro car which was close to the murder scene yesterday morning , in order that they can eliminate them from the murder investigation . |
| 3 | We have feelers , metal strips , that are one and a half thou thick , we call it , you ca n't have them any thinner because they can make them in Sheffield at one thou thick but they suffer and bend by use . |
| 4 | ‘ We are putting paper chains on their arms ; they can break them with a gesture . ’ |
| 5 | It was sent by a sad Manc git using my Id cos he 's too scared to use his own — if anyone wishes to reply to his infantile shite they can send them to him at the following address … |
| 6 | They 're not criminals in the real sense of criminality , but that 's where they end up , because that 's the only dustbin they can send them to . |
| 7 | Yet , in practice , students in Western countries only protest about these things if they can detect them in their own , or allied , cultures . |
| 8 | and then they can expect them at the end of like x amount of time to be able to take over a department , then when it falls apart they 're gon na be the one to take it . |
| 9 | But I do n't know how they can have them as twins do you ? |
| 10 | Mammalian carnivores will also kill birds of prey if they can catch them at night on the nest or roost , and many of the smaller carnivores are themselves taken by larger owls or eagles , although not without danger to themselves . |
| 11 | Or they can sue them for loss of income . |
| 12 | If they can get them for that |
| 13 | They can keep them in there for ever . ’ |