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 .
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