Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | now what gave the reason for that so we can all follow it quite clearly see if I 've got this right , was the reason for the updating of the service charges once a year in the brochure , the fact that if you did n't update the brochure might mislead a prospective purchaser ? |
| 2 | We can all enjoy it eventually if we try hard enough sort of thing . |
| 3 | Oh yes well you can perhaps do it tomorrow |
| 4 | 4.5 Consider the following sentences : ( 33 ) we believe the detective innocent Leonard proved the theorem incorrect Atkins will guarantee her picture authentic We can perhaps take it as self-evident that these do not contain attributive adjectives , but they also differ from predicate qualifiers . |
| 5 | If we translate analogue information into a digital form , we can suddenly manipulate it freely in almost any way we wish . |
| 6 | Remember , they can only do it once . |
| 7 | Well she can only scratch it inside |
| 8 | So now can you see how politically , there is a kind of political subtext to this section erm as I say you can only follow it so far down a road then you come to a dead end but I think it 's there and you ca n't really ignore it , the political subtext . |
| 9 | ‘ Yeah , but you can only use it once a week and you have to get permission . |
| 10 | Yeah why not , yeah anything that 's relevant , I mean if it goes on till then we can only use it twice ca n't we ? |
| 11 | Well , I am alas going to have to leave out my discussion of God in Paradise Lost , the question of whether , by presenting the obedience to God you can somehow make it more palatable to the readers ' tastes than you could if it was entirely thought of as a secular morality . |
| 12 | Whatever the quality of recruitment of barristers and solicitors , is my right hon. and learned Friend aware of the deep weakness in the British legal system in that justice is readily available to the poor who can get legal aid and to the rich who can easily afford it anyway but that to a large proportion of people in between it often seems barely accessible and yet they have to pay taxes to provide justice for others ? |
| 13 | And you can just pull it so that it flattens . |
| 14 | Well you can just say it again . |
| 15 | With this in view the consensus among the agencies is that there will be some discounting , because nobody can ever get it exactly right , but nothing like what has been available in recent years . |
| 16 | ‘ I could be involved in a number of different ways , ’ she continues , ‘ but I can still do it well enough , and you never know what 's around the next corner . |
| 17 | I can still , I can still eat it inside . |
| 18 | Oh yeah that one , that 's not so bad , it 's the other stuff this er was is it , Saladene that that 's a wo a wood preservative it 's a got a s stainer now that 's not very strong I can still smell it now you know . |
| 19 | Brenda ( seventeen , Jamaican parents ) commented that in Jamaica she had been teased as a " foreigner " because her Creole was not up to scratch : Oh , they call you all — " English gyal , come here English gyal ! " yeh , my sister 'ad it all , my sister ai n't English , my sister 's Jamaican , because she come over here when she was young , when she went back over there they were callin' her English gyal , the lot [ ] but when she , she ai n't forget nothin' , she can still speak it so she open her mouth and they say sorry [ ri ] ! |
| 20 | I remembered every word of our conversation ; in fact , I can still remember it today . |
| 21 | Erm but er when the war finished , when the war finished and the Home Guard stood down , I ca n't remember who was the mayor of Walsall at the time , but they had a reception in the town hall for the Home Guard and everyone that was in the Home Guard was invited before we hand before we st handed our uniforms in , was invited to attend and I must say with great pride that I was can still remember it now , that the wife and I went to the reception and I was in the uniform and it 'd be the mace bearer I presume that was at the door and he asked your name and er rank and he shouted out your name and rank when you went in and you was greeted by the mayor and mayoress inside the ves the hall of the town hall , and erm I mean er quite proud to be Corporal and Mrs you know and it I mean everyone that went , I mean their rank and name and who was with them , you know , was it was quite quite a er er quite a something of to look back to of interest that was , you know , when we stood down . |
| 22 | I can still remember it now … |
| 23 | It 's gone right across its middle , but it do n't matter too much , cos if you hold the bits together you can still see it OK . |
| 24 | If you put your hand up at the side there you can still see it even though you 're looking straight , even though I 'm looking straight ahead Matt I can still see that , try it . |
| 25 | I can still write it fluently . |
| 26 | Well David can always bring it home if there 's , it does n't get used . |
| 27 | You 're not just paying somebody else to have a Cos if you 're moving if you ca n't sell it you can always rent it again . |
| 28 | Besides , as field staff said , ‘ you can always throw it away later ’ if the pollution turns out to be unimportant and the officer wants to avoid the trouble of processing , that is , bureaucratically accounting for , his sample . |
| 29 | I can always remove it later if something better comes up in the interim . |
| 30 | If the hole 15 too small , you can always enlarge it later . |