Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I can peg you out to dry . |
| 2 | Dis Train and Man Of The West can give him most to do . |
| 3 | What about getting those children as they go out a voucher that their parents can bring them along to see a show at a reduced rate . |
| 4 | I can show you how to manage that . |
| 5 | We can show you how to wake up ‘ lazy money ’ which is lying uninvested , and how to restructure investment to make it more productive . |
| 6 | The beauty of this system is that a stylist can show you how to set your hair before you buy . |
| 7 | It seems have done that John 's intent on making us a nation of master mariners and under these circumstances , I think I 'll adopt the old maritime adage , women and children first , so I 'll it back , John can show you how to rig one of these things , alright , come on . |
| 8 | There are two problems in analysing tasks : one is to acquire the evidence on which to base the task description , the other is to record what has been found out in a way such that other people , notably the interface designers and the personnel specialists , can use it effectively to assist in their work . |
| 9 | Interpretation of the passage is thereby facilitated and one can use it selectively to pick up additional information to extend the schema — that the reaction referred to is known as saponification , for example . |
| 10 | Having recorded the guide-track , you can use it directly to cue the sections of music into place as you pre-record them onto the sound tape , or you can convert them first to tape-counter references ; another alternative is to mark their positions on the back of the tape with a wax pencil or felt-tip pen . |
| 11 | • It is light , portable and you can use it anywhere to make any seat or chair comfortable |
| 12 | Farmers can use it only to graze sheep , in flocks of 200 or so ewes with their lambs in spring . |
| 13 | But we have to manage to find out how these people think , how we can convince them Even to protect themselves , one of the things we 'd like to show is look , using this mercury , you 're killing yourself . |
| 14 | The advantage of building a wardrobe entirely from scratch is that you can tailor it exactly to fit the space available . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 16 | You can measure them later to see if there has been a change . |
| 17 | You can configure it just to display the horoscope if you wish and you can have the weekends horoscopes automatically displayed on a Friday . |
| 18 | With an endowment , you can top it up to cover the extra borrowing and it will still be repaid 25 years after you bought your very first house . |
| 19 | You can drag it down to produce 14 rows and hand edit the last two to read Average and Total . |
| 20 | Perhaps I 'll meet someone who can tell me how to get back to the hotel . |
| 21 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 22 | But I can tell you why to love . |
| 23 | I do not think anyone can tell you how to create an advertisement . |
| 24 | I said well , I can tell you how to clean it . |
| 25 | ‘ Nobody can tell you how to do your job . ’ |
| 26 | The Customer Information Officer can tell you how to apply for a licence in order to meet current statutory requirements . |
| 27 | ‘ But I can tell you how to find out . ’ |
| 28 | Yes I know , you can get somebody else to do that , be there for months and they do n't turn up at once , that was erm , I did n't realize they had to turn up at once , so I was letting them throw whenever they wanted |
| 29 | Do we want somebody who will just do , cos I 've got , I mean I can get somebody just to do that if that 's all you want done , that could be done easily |
| 30 | It does , if you can get anything else to match it . |