Example sentences of "can [verb] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm now 36th in the European merit order , but I feel I can make the first 25 ’ , said big hitter Clarke before teeing off in Switzerland . |
| 2 | So we can do the first two . |
| 3 | We can do the first two and then |
| 4 | PETER SCHMEICHEL arrives in London for the first time this season convinced Manchester United can become the first Premier League champions . |
| 5 | Wait until you can see the first true leaves between the two seed leaves . |
| 6 | With an odd feeling that he was asking because it was expected of him rather than out of genuine interest , she replied somewhat stiltedly , ‘ Once I 've a clear picture of the items to be displayed , and which room they 're to go in , I can begin the first rough draft for the catalogue . ’ |
| 7 | More important for them is the other alternative which can follow the first primitive stage : feudalism . |
| 8 | Note that here the submatrix unc is unc and we can take the first two columns as linearly independent ; the third is obtained by subtracting half the first from the second . |
| 9 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 10 | because he can read the first two books , now how they 'll do it with him , he 'll have to just look at the pictures and he 'll go back to square one , and I 've had him actually writing his words , doing letter formation , A , B , C , D |
| 11 | ‘ He thinks I can manage the first two years ' bills at Dickie 's new school , but after that I 'll be cleaned out , so God alone knows what 'll happen . |
| 12 | The buyer knows he can afford the first weekly payment , say : but a month later there 's the rent to pay , or a bigger fuel bill than expected , and there simply is n't enough income to cover all demands . |
| 13 | and unc we can replace the first original equation by |
| 14 | One can imagine the first fortuitous utterance of the three word string |