Example sentences of "they can [vb infin] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , the Ramsdens have sent out 30 winners this season and they are hoping that they can snap up a tasty hors-d'oeuvre before the Newmarket feast by saddling their first winner at Ascot this afternoon when they run Line Of Vision and Hunter Valley . |
| 2 | They 're only buying the site so they can clear out the caravans , are n't they ? |
| 3 | ‘ The days must go when they can wake up a judge at dead of night , give him a drop of brandy , show him a headline from The Sun and get him to sign an injunction , ’ Mr Todd said . |
| 4 | THE days must go when they can wake up a judge at dead of night , give him a drop of brandy , show him a headline in The Sun , and get him to sign an injunction . |
| 5 | Campese believes Australia have been stifled by their billing as world champions , but he hopes they can shake off the shackles on Saturday . |
| 6 | ‘ George Graham says they can go up a few gears for the replay , but we 'll wait and see . |
| 7 | five hundred , five hundred I could only say he was n't , five o'clock last night he was no so he went to the one doctor , so to the erm what 's gon na happen when they when he , when they can go down the doctors that 's first of all go into this and after ten , twenty four hours doing this kind of thing for forty eight hours up . |
| 8 | You concealed knowledge of a deserter , you actually helped him stay deserted , and They can make out a case for saying you still are . |
| 9 | ‘ If they think they can set up a squad at three months ’ notice , they 're sadly mistaken . |
| 10 | ‘ You know what I think about this ‘ protected species ’ business , ’ he said , reshuffling the logs , ‘ I think they 're protecting all the game for themselves so they can set up a hunter 's paradise for the rich — for foreigners and high-ranking government officials . |
| 11 | They they can set up a pension er |
| 12 | The newcomers will be hoping that the unsettling bid talk will die down so they can set about the more urgent tasks that lie ahead . |
| 13 | Local authorities are required to take reasonable steps to ascertain entitlement to discount , but in the absence of firm information they can send out an undiscounted bill . |
| 14 | They can carry on a normal life like going to school or work and having fun with their family and friends , but they will be infectious to other people for the rest of their lives . |
| 15 | Blackburn were the only top six team to win on Saturday , fuelling renewed conviction that they can pull off a remarkable Championship coup . |
| 16 | Yet do n't ask me how else they can sort out the bright from the not-so-bright , as I do n't know . |
| 17 | Too many drivers think they can wind down the window , sing a song , have a conversation and it 'll go away , but I 'm afraid it does n't . |
| 18 | In relays , each team tries to drink water in identical jugs from a spoon , until at the end they can lift up the jugs to drink . |
| 19 | Unlike a normal congregation they can reach out a hand , twirl a knob and obliterate the message . |
| 20 | If they 're wrongly placed they can blank out the screens and make them impossible to read . |
| 21 | 1 They can brighten up the classroom and bring variety and interest into the lessons . |
| 22 | They 've got a device that sings harmonies now — next the bloody things will be writing songs for us , no doubt sponsored by Pepsi , or Coke so that they can pick up the publishing . |
| 23 | Unfortunately when other divisions come and use it they seem to think they can pick up the caravan and there 'll be a wonderful display in there |
| 24 | Once the therapist has extracted one thought they can find out the one behind it . |
| 25 | One er one of Gain 's first customers in the U S was er E D S. E D S have er will be using Gain technology to deliver erm what they 're calling console applications for the World Cup in nineteen ninety four in U S A. So that in the in the er the World Cup environment there will be kiosks around thes the er the the training camps for instance where players or er fans can go up and touch using a touch screen can see the er the the highlights of the last Cameroon versus England game , they can find out where the nearest Indonesian restaurant and they can find out the team news for the next game . |
| 26 | Well they have targets like we all have and one of their targets is how quickly they can turn around the claimant 's money . |
| 27 | This machine , a small but powerful catapult , lobs Goblins high into the air , from where they can spy out the land ahead . |
| 28 | They actually involve like participating in training that they can actually try out the techniques and they and they can try out the techniques in the training and on the job as well . |
| 29 | The question is not whether they can fill in a simple series of figures , but whether they fully understand the implications of the choices they thus make . |
| 30 | This year it includes a series of extravaganzas in sports centres at Omagh , Craigavon , Lisburn and Ballymena and the distribution of a booklet telling children how they can take up a sport . |