Example sentences of "you can [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As for you , if you want to make yourself pretty , you can borrow the blue room . ’ |
| 2 | IF YOU are not already a direct subscriber to Wisden Cricket Monthly , you can beat the forthcoming annual price rise by taking out a one-year subscription POST FREE now ( see page 22 ) . |
| 3 | There have been dozens , perhaps hundreds of novels , however , written about the great mysteries of crime from the Constance Kent case of the 1860s to the Wallace trial ( The Was-there-a-Mr-Qualtrough case ) of 1931 to the mystery of who killed the Princes in the Tower , a subject to choose only if you think you can beat the redoubtable Josephine Tey at her own game in her classic The Daughter of Time . |
| 4 | ‘ And you think you can beat the British by ambushes and blowing up police barracks ? ’ |
| 5 | Your excessively early arrival means that you can check the aforesaid dogs are not using your beautiful flower arrangements as their loo , and also run through a technical check and the autocue before anyone else gets there . |
| 6 | Four spare SIMM slots mean you can upgrade the basic 4Mb of RAM to a whopping 32Mb . |
| 7 | Erm and this is really the mechanism by which you can ensure the continuous or continual improvement of the quality system . |
| 8 | You can eat the pink bits , mummy says , but you ca n't eat the rest . |
| 9 | Round about here , the network of caves under the ochreous rocks has been turned into vast champignonnières , and at the modest little Restaurant David ( no relation ) you can eat the local cultivated mushrooms cooked à la crème or à la provençale with , naturally , olive oil , parsley and garlic . |
| 10 | In this way you can hook the oedematous scrotum and winch it up with the anaesthetised patient prone . |
| 11 | You can open the outside window . |
| 12 | At the other side is Valors ' new unique Touchlok main oven door release , so you can open the main oven door at the touch of a button . |
| 13 | For doors with both full nylon and full mesh panels , make sure the mesh is on the outside so that you can open the weatherproof door without letting any of the baddies in . |
| 14 | Drill and plug the wall so you can anchor the mounting box in place , ensuring it lies just below the plaster surface . |
| 15 | You can view the severed head of St Oliver Plunkett in St Peter 's Church . ’ |
| 16 | By and large all the previous Guitarist Show exhibitors are still there but the remit of the event has been broadened to incorporate recording , hi-tech , drums and relevant musicians ' services ( including the Performing Right Society and the MU ) , so now you can bring the whole band along to visit . |
| 17 | Now you can choose the lovely clothes … the labels … the style you have always wanted . |
| 18 | You can move the decimal point , or multiply and divide by ten . |
| 19 | The advantage with this method is that you can move the whole tent in one if you need to re-position for any reason . |
| 20 | You ca n't for real you ca n't really move blue ball you can move the red ball as much as you like but not What you have to do is to so just try a normally conventional just sling straight through here |
| 21 | Here , you can feel the violent reshaping of the country sensibility in the image of urban life ; only in the end , there is no going back . |
| 22 | You can discover the great square keep , and enjoy the panoramic view from the top over the town below . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If you go there , you can do the necessary ca n't you ? |
| 25 | So you can do the following two questions for me please . |
| 26 | Erm , I 'll make them , I 'll make them all take away , sorry , discounts , because if you could do those you can do the adding ones . |
| 27 | I can do the easy one , you can do the hard one . |
| 28 | Here you can rearrange the playing order of the slides and remove unwanted ones . |
| 29 | After a break , see whether you can capture the key points of the last topic you revised . |
| 30 | You can tell the heavy hitters at these international shows by the sizes of their entourages . |