Example sentences of "and [det] [pron] can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That can go upstairs , and that one can go upstairs . |
| 2 | What happens if we 've got an emergency situation and how come when you got about three or four different authorities to deal with that matter and the other thing that has been said people said it to me , the question of building and in some parts of West Sussex we 've got concrete jungles and that itself can cause flooding because water does n't drain would do through natural resources through its natural well drain away . |
| 3 | The reason for wanting 18 is that there are nine genes , and each one can mutate in an " upward " direction ( 1 is added to its value ) or in a " downward " direction ( 1 is subtracted from its value ) . |
| 4 | Within the slim packaging lies a host of mini programs ( called Microapps ) , some of which are useful , some almost indispensable and some you can take or leave as the fancy takes you . |
| 5 | And this one can conduct twenty gallons a minute . |
| 6 | We were in accord with Jewish law in one respect : that the mother is a dominant factor , in terms of upbringing and influence ; and this we can endorse . |
| 7 | And this he can do unless there are restrictions on the transferability of the shares or unless there are good reasons for failing to apply for registration . |
| 8 | And this you can purchase for two pounds ninety nine from here or lots of other shops . |
| 9 | And these we can take to nursery and we can leave them at nursery ca n't we ? |
| 10 | We say , ‘ surely the thought is something ; it is not nothing ‘ ; and all one can answer to this is , that the word ‘ thought ’ has its use , which is of a totally different kind from the use of the word ‘ sentence ’ . |
| 11 | But erm on the absolute scale of temperature , zero kelvin is the lowest one can get , and all one can hope to do is to get ever closer to that zero , when one goes to low temperatures . |
| 12 | These two guys are meant to be on a Gipsy Working Party , finding somewhere for the gipsies to live , and all they can do is argue about it . |
| 13 | ‘ I get a lot of laughs from everyone who sees me , especially when I 'm going across long grass and all they can see is an airline captain coming towards them at great speed with exhaust smoke coming from my rear end . |
| 14 | We are in that situation and all we can do is try and do the best we can to survive and keep some sort of service going to help people who desperately need it . |
| 15 | The problem is largely an insuperable one , and all we can do at this stage is to bear it in mind . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you know , Anna , my darling , that the poor child longed , only longed , to be a concert pianist but was literally forced by her ogreish father to nurse him while he died of drink and now her spirit is quite broken and all she can bring herself to do is dispense plastic cups of repellent coffee to OAPs going to Ferndown to see their married daughters ? ’ |
| 17 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 18 | And all I can do when there is a woman referee is to accept her . |
| 19 | ‘ Nothing feels right and all I can do is try and work it out for myself . |
| 20 | It is easy to see that studying the growth and modifiability of neurons is a much harder task than describing them in the state you normally find them , so it is not surprising that much less is known , and all I can do here is to point out some of the interesting possibilities that are opening up . |
| 21 | Maybe they 're closing in on us right now and all I can do is mess about playing cook ? |
| 22 | ‘ I have my goals and all I can do is set out to emulate his feats . ’ |
| 23 | She writes the words : arresting images ( lives that go in circles ‘ like a pigeon on a tyre ’ ) , moments of disturbing lucidity amid inscrutable dream-imagery ( ‘ give me what I want/ And all I can think about is losing it ’ ; ‘ why ca n't you do to my insights/What you do to my insides ? ’ ; |
| 24 | I was a New Man before New Men had capital letters , but I feel like an Old Man these days , and all I can think is that by the time this one is through university I 'll be nearly sixty . |
| 25 | Now that is all behind me and all I can think about now is winning the 1991 world championship . ’ |
| 26 | And all I can think is Do n't confess , do n't confess , do n't confess . |
| 27 | I got to stick with the President and all I can think about.is those two and what they 're up to . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought a personal appeal to the Brotherhood for a relic for Shaftesbury Abbey would be much better than legal wrangling , and all I can say at present is that negotiations are going very well indeed , ’ said Mrs Rider last night . |
| 29 | You come to me , and all I can say |
| 30 | However , Hyperion do not name the venue and all I can say is that the given acoustics have not been allowed to supply the degree of warm enrichment this music seems to demand . |