Example sentences of "can [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When it has grown strong and healthy , you can display it in various ways . |
| 32 | you got ta remember you can buy them for fifty if you land on it . |
| 33 | " They were wearing army clothes — but you can buy them at any army surplus stores . " |
| 34 | I think they can buy it at twenty eight . |
| 35 | He can make his birds fly like an arrow — in a straight line , in single file — or can direct them to any place he likes , in any formation . |
| 36 | As teachers you can direct them along fruitful lines of approach and discourage them from fruitless ones . |
| 37 | 1 can overrule you on this . ’ |
| 38 | More professionally , you can lighten them to that bleached-bone look by staining them with a white stain , thinned down with fifty percent white spirit . |
| 39 | ’ I do n't know how you can watch it like that . |
| 40 | I 'll tell them you can borrow it at any time . |
| 41 | Very crudely we can base it on those elements which albeit often apparently antithetical or contradictory as they seem to be , have figured more or less constantly in discussions on " what design is " . |
| 42 | Thorfinn said , ‘ I think we can beat him with two thousand gone , provided the Normans remain . |
| 43 | They must keep within the budget , but if they spend less than their limit they can reallocate it to other purposes within the practice . |
| 44 | However , those with more computer expertise can type them in any order , if they wish , and use the SORT component of the TA programme ( see below ) to alphabetise them before printing out . |
| 45 | ‘ All I can give you at this stage is fine words when what is needed is action . |
| 46 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
| 47 | There is an aesthetic , if we can dignify it with that word , which distinguishes blood sports from each other . |
| 48 | And this is gon na introduce you to a new word called psychographic and psychographic , you think you 've got , you can break it in two you 've got the psychological aspects and the graphic or mapping , the mapping of the psychology . |
| 49 | ‘ Whereas you , a childless young society woman , can feel it in full measure , ’ Tranter said sarcastically . |
| 50 | If er someone 's taken it for a ride and dumped it near you then can you call Nottingham and it 's Dawn who wants her car back anything I can do you for three four three four three four is the number to ring . |
| 51 | And anything that I can do you for three four three four three four to ring . |
| 52 | The main thing is that I can do it through official channels . |
| 53 | Well you see we 're a bit further from home now and if we can do it for five days , great , we have n't |
| 54 | But I mean if the Townswomen 's Guild can do it for cheaper why ca n't we ? |
| 55 | I can do it for one minute twenty seconds . |
| 56 | Sort of , you 've got your health knock out sixty seventy , right we can do it for another year . |
| 57 | He says if she can do it at seventy-three and disabled then so can we all . |
| 58 | She said , I do n't care whether you are at university , there are certain areas that you need to know a lot more background before you can do it at this level . |
| 59 | I did that when I was seven and different people can do it at any time . |
| 60 | The only way you can do it at any particular point that 's the trouble . |