Example sentences of "can [verb] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As both a guitarist and an adman , I can speak with a bit of authority . |
| 2 | He can speak with a bit of slurring , so what . |
| 3 | These organisations are ready and willing to accept your work and reproduce it to a significantly higher quality that you can achieve with a page printer such as Apple 's LaserWriter or even AM Varityper 's VT 600 . |
| 4 | While one can sympathise with a player whose season has virtually been written off , his decision to take legal action over what is surely an occupational hazard opens the door for other players to consider following suit . |
| 5 | See what we can do with a hedgehog . |
| 6 | ‘ I can do with a man of spirit about me . |
| 7 | can do with a bit of skiing |
| 8 | The activities are designed to exploit the motivating and memorable appeal of music to the learner and the author proves his point that ‘ anything you can do with a text , you can do with a song ’ . |
| 9 | The activities are designed to exploit the motivating and memorable appeal of music to the learner and the author proves his point that ‘ anything you can do with a text , you can do with a song ’ . |
| 10 | What you can do with a two-ounce jar of smoked cod 's roe , a few spoonfuls of oil and a potato is quite a revelation to many people . |
| 11 | Brenda Campbell says to ride a 100 miles on a horse is quite something in itself but to ride it at a fast pace and be able to get off is semothing else and it 's the best thing you can do with a horse |
| 12 | It reminds me of what a decorative caterer can do with a carrot . |
| 13 | It 's amazing what you can do with a skip full of building rubble ! |
| 14 | Some workshops use white plastic off the roll so that it forms a plain background on which the constructor can sketch with a marker-pen . |
| 15 | They think it is a geometry exercise and some of them will produce accurate classical descriptions which you can acknowledge with a nod . |
| 16 | Excluding the sudden arrival of a frontal system , the wind direction is predictable and you can plan with a map the place most likely to have the ideal cross-shore winds which enable easy launching and recovery . |
| 17 | There are so many varieties of technique , style and tone that you can use with a pencil . |
| 18 | There are so many varieties of technique , style and tone that you can use with a pencil . |
| 19 | Rather than start from a symbol and find what sentences can be generated from it , one can begin with a sentence and a grammar , and find a way of generating that sentence . |
| 20 | This confused me until I realised that the more shadowy the figure of the ex then the greater her power , because no-one can compete with a phantom . |
| 21 | The natural prototype for a metric space is the world we live in , where the metric is Euclidean distance which you can measure with a ruler . |
| 22 | I find it frightening that an artist can sign with a gallery for five years . |
| 23 | You have taken liberties that you can take with a son , but not with a leader ’ ( Bourne : 1987 , p. 243 ) . |
| 24 | The demand must also specify someone with whom the debtor can communicate with a view to securing or compounding for the debt to the creditor 's satisfaction or , as the case may be , establishing to the creditor 's satisfaction that there is a reasonable prospect that the debt will be paid when it falls due . |
| 25 | ‘ This is because , from the public 's point of view , if a company they are thinking of employing by Safe-Buy UK , they know they can proceed with a home improvement with extra reassurance and avoid things going badly or expensively wrong . |
| 26 | During your flight you can relax with a drink from the duty free bar and a meal or light refreshment will be served according to the time of day . |
| 27 | Amongst the many things Sue and Colin have worked on , the walled garden is much improved with very pretty herbaceous borders and a lawn laid out with parasoled tables and chairs , where guests can relax with a drink on a warm summer 's evening . |
| 28 | a celestial policeman ; 2. an absentee landlord ; 3. a magician ; 4. a being greater than anything we can possibly think of ; 5. an old man on a cloud ; 6. light which gives life ; 7. the conclusion of a mathematical theorem ; 8. the chairman of a rather boring harp-playing assembly ; 9. a presence who is loving and just ; 10. a crutch for people who ca n't cope ; 11. an all-powerful dictator ; 12. a character in a fairy-story ; 13. a power that is either evil or indifferent to suffering ; 14. a heavenly Santa Claus ; 15. a king who is just and holy ; 16. electricity which is invisible and powerful , useful but dangerous ; 17. a slot-machine whom you can approach with a coin and get out what you want ; 18. the ground without which nothing in this world could exist . |
| 29 | Through use of a large corpus of pre-specified program design knowledge in the form of a ‘ script ’ for each common design , the IAS can interact with a teacher-author in a relatively natural manner--prompting the teacher for the most important information first , and then automatically filling in subsequent details as necessary . |
| 30 | Now you can manage with a shower , I mean it 's , it 's efficient as regards er keeping you er clean , but can you , to men there 's a different pleasure in having a shower , I enjoy both I would hate to h to be limited to one . |