Example sentences of "we can [vb infin] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We can give them to her to suck on when she needs to push . ’ |
| 2 | To build on the EC 's Association Agreements with Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland so that we can welcome them to full membership by the year 2000 . |
| 3 | ‘ We can control them on the course reasonably well , but when they get into their cars , oh dear ! ’ |
| 4 | The association and others criticise what I describe as independent inspectors , but we can reassure them in the Bill and elsewhere by showing how powerful HMI will be in ensuring that standards are up to the required level . |
| 5 | If exceptions , such as ‘ I promise to tell the truth ’ , occur to us , we can treat them as the exceptions that prove the rule . |
| 6 | Or we can treat them as victims of an insurable risk . |
| 7 | ‘ If they live , we can transplant them into the garden . |
| 8 | But though the parts of a complex idea must , in some way , have come from experience , the complexes themselves need not have , for we can construct them from their parts . |
| 9 | Let's see if we can move them on this year so that they start to think it 's a charity I know I really want to support . |
| 10 | We can watch them through the window . |
| 11 | Well if necessary we can bring them into here . |
| 12 | I think this is one of those things which if , when we 're in the process of re-issuing forms , we can bring them into line , that 's brilliant . |
| 13 | If we know what to do we can all look at our own houses and decide how we can alter them in not too expensive ways to make it a bit harder for the criminal . |
| 14 | And these we can take to nursery and we can leave them at nursery ca n't we ? |
| 15 | These fast-changing times should cause all of us to reflect on the lives we are leading and how we can better them for ourselves and those around us . |
| 16 | Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’ |
| 17 | We can not unmake the technologies or the knowledge-bases that have been produced , but we can channel them to more effective and worthwhile use . |
| 18 | ‘ … it will be a great thing not to have to depend on the fickle wind for making a passage , and still more to know that we may pounce down upon those rascally fast-sailing dhows whenever we can sight them in a calm , and be sure of overtaking them … ’ |
| 19 | This means that we can use them for the riding school , muck the out etc … and the owner pays for its feed . |
| 20 | It could take a number of years before we get them all on A L O courses and in fact there 's no way w I assume there 's no way we can put them on A L O courses til they 've done a crime prevention course at Is that right David ? |
| 21 | We need to hear from the local churches , from the district councils what 's going on wha what the issues that concern you are so let's as well the ones that you see downstairs , we may already be addressing so have a look down there have a look at the , the information but if there are any issues you feel we ought to be addressing then please let us know so that we can put them on our agenda . |
| 22 | Dad , the , well erm , were doing about things about light and we 've got this black piece of paper , cutting out a shape sort of candle and cutting , erm colouring paper underneath so that we can put them on the windows at . |
| 23 | Well if we can put them in little bags , ooh |
| 24 | Unless we can persuade them in two years costs have gone up and of course we will . |
| 25 | Right okay just as a reminder to everybody if they have admin jobs that are pretty basic if we can save them til a Wednesday or a Thursday like photocopying and things like that then they will invariably be able to do those for you . |
| 26 | I know we can thank them for showing some tennis , unlike ITV which does n't show any at all , but they do n't show half as much as would all like . |
| 27 | Well I think we can find them through Playback in cases like that |
| 28 | We can supply them from stock and shall be despatching them to you within the next few days . |
| 29 | We can describe them in terms of electrical activity in the brain , but this does not really tell us much . |
| 30 | which often looks quite nice so that even if what you 've found does n't quite match up with what they 've found you can say well look you know these theories , ideas are need enriching , they 're a bit inadequate as they stand because what happens when somebody tells you this , what happens when somebody says this erm you know we can , we can revise them in the following way |