Example sentences of "can [verb] them [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Now that I know the genetic formula of my insects , I can reproduce them at will , and I can tell the computer to " evolve " towards them from any arbitrary starting point . |
2 | We have feelers , metal strips , that are one and a half thou thick , we call it , you ca n't have them any thinner because they can make them in Sheffield at one thou thick but they suffer and bend by use . |
3 | Stash old plastic or paper shopping bags near the rubbish or garbage bin and then you can re-cycle them as bin liners . |
4 | Or we can treat them as victims of an insurable risk . |
5 | You can intersperse them between units of archers . |
6 | But rules that strengthen banks in good times can cripple them in recessions . |
7 | I prefer to have fruit really cos I can eat them with rolls . |
8 | Robert Dalrymple says its relationships with most of its tenants are excellent but no one can deliver them from recession . |
9 | We can describe them in terms of electrical activity in the brain , but this does not really tell us much . |
10 | Anxiety for example , is something that human beings will always experience , and to think that you can free them from anxiety in some future utopia , or go back to some ordered erm , ideal state in the past , where everyone was so secure , that they would never feel anxiety , is just a myth according to Freud . |
11 | Funny is n't it how we meet people , how you can know them for ages then you just sort of talk to them , or once you start talking to them you realize that you 've got |
12 | If you find yourself in difficulties of a personal nature , you can discuss them in confidence with your manager . |
13 | Mammalian carnivores will also kill birds of prey if they can catch them at night on the nest or roost , and many of the smaller carnivores are themselves taken by larger owls or eagles , although not without danger to themselves . |
14 | You can buy them with doors , drawers , or both , and with different depths for different drawers . |
15 | If you want to try them , you can buy them from Clare for a small consideration which will be donated to charity . |
16 | You can buy them in wall , floor or full length sizes . |
17 | And he wants to know where he can buy them in Ipswich . |
18 | Many patients will have a family member who can collect them by car . |
19 | So physical dull metals are malleable you can beat them into sheets or can mould them . |
20 | Can you , if you can let , simply let me have those in at the end of the session or if you can give them to Eleanor at the end of the session . |
21 | Abortion says love God if you like , love the neighbour you can see , but there is absolutely no need to love your unborn neighbours — you can do them to death with impunity . ’ |
22 | Whatever projects are currently on paper , Brohome can bring them to life . |
23 | I think this is one of those things which if , when we 're in the process of re-issuing forms , we can bring them into line , that 's brilliant . |
24 | I can flood them with data . |
25 | If everyone in your Pack makes a bookmark , you can exchange them as part of your Thinking Day celebrations . |
26 | You can grow them from seed . |
27 | To begin with , I 'd spent part of the night dreaming about Father — one of those long , tangled dreams with occasional moments of such lucid clarity that you can remember them in detail for years afterwards . |
28 | He 's got friends there who 've moved on to the staff , and he reckons he can pump them for information without making any official waves . |
29 | So you can convert per centages into these sorts of fractions or you can convert them into decimals . |
30 | If you already own shares — say , for instance , in companies privatised by the Government — you can swap them for investment trust shares . |