Example sentences of "can [verb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |
| 2 | And so , when the manager gets to 60 or so and is given his carriage clock and company pension ( if he is lucky ) , there is somebody to take over who knows the right people and can do the right things . |
| 3 | Why , unless we can rock the bloody thing release it . |
| 4 | You can keep the whole thing very neat by using 5 cm ( 2 in ) wide cardboard strips cut to the height of the walls . |
| 5 | You can use the whole thing with a mouse ( is there anything you ca n't use a mouse with these days ? ) , but we found that the I-beam cursor was anything but stable with a mouse . |
| 6 | All three are very experienced advocates before the courts but all three of them have deliberately done one application wrong , so you can see the typical things that advocates do do that should not be done . |
| 7 | Although I can see the whole thing unrolling in my mind 's eye like a silent film , I ca n't really be precise about where everyone was and that sort of thing . ’ |
| 8 | You can run the whole thing from home and the machines fit easily into most cars . |
| 9 | ‘ The system 's virtually glitch-proof : three technicians can run the whole thing . |
| 10 | Fellow pilgrims , the wonderful reality of incarnation is a message to us all that God can take the foolish things of this life and make us rich vessels for his use . |
| 11 | Alternatively , you can knit the whole thing as an intarsia , thus minimising the length of the floats . |
| 12 | Of course , you can hand the whole thing over to a direct mail house but there may still be additional and expensive packaging to design and pay for . |
| 13 | We can leave the white things |
| 14 | You can aim the whole thing directly at your viewing audience . |
| 15 | Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm |
| 16 | Pinnacle says copyright reasons forbid it from selling clones until Sun can get the real thing out of the door . |
| 17 | I can put the whole thing in context . |
| 18 | I mean we can walk , we can talk the only thing we ca n't do is see . |
| 19 | if ever you get to the stage where the left of the party or the right of the party , either extreme wing , feel that they 've got such power , that they can pull the whole thing their way , the danger is that the bits at the other end will snap and that of course is the disunity danger which had absolutely devastated the Labour party , where the left did exactly that and the moderate centre That 's if you can call it that , snapped off . |
| 20 | The thing to watch out for is getting them twisted because as the male member bangs away and does n't get in very far , it can push the whole thing inside and slip around the sides . |