Example sentences of "can [adv] do a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So you can all do a summary , every single one of you , okay .
2 You can still do a lot , but you 'll need a different approach .
3 But this teams needs more continuity than up to now and it can still do a lot better .
4 Modern methods are all very well , but you can still do a lot with a hammer and chisel .
5 According to representatives at the conference from China , developing countries can often do a lot themselves to advance in space technology .
6 For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it .
7 Americans can now do a course in Madonna iconography , so the argument continues , but whatever the positive or negative aspects of her behaviour , the fact is she changed the rules for women ; if nothing else she showed that female sexuality was powerful , and in that sense transformed the possibilities for women in rock .
8 You can even do a bit of water-skiing if you fancy it . ’
9 Similarly , you can even do a smash serve .
10 and when you 've finished it you can then do a picture about your
11 alright , fair enough , if , if the , if the deformity is mobile that means you can move it , you can actually do a lot of manipulation and physiotherapy and that can work very well .
12 When eavesdropping ( a vicarious ghost-life he goes in for ) , he hears Raskolnikov tell Sonya about the crime , and later , without openly referring to it , the potential suicide twits the actual murderer : Sell , you can certainly do a lot . ’
13 One recalls Svidrigailov and Raskolnikov , the potential suicide twitting the actual murderer with ‘ well , you can certainly do a lot ’ .
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