Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Israeli children eat these pancakes during Hanukkah in December but you can make them at any time of the year . |
2 | For accountants who can make it to any of the superstores ( research shows that customers travel some distance but telesales are available to any destination in the UK ) , whether they are sole practitioners or part of a larger group , the benefits would appear to be great . |
3 | It 's bendy , you can make it into any shape , you know the one ? |
4 | People like Garth Crooks , Mike MacFarlane and Garry Thompson traced back how they could have made their blackness the basis for defeatism , admitting that ‘ there 's no way a black guy can make it in this society . ’ |
5 | We 'll be available on N T erm I do n't think I can say concurrently with the availability of N T cos A no one knows the availability of N T and secondly there will inevitabl be some lag , but it will be very soon as quick as we can make it after that . |
6 | That means you can treat me like this . |
7 | Yes , I can influence him in any way that I please . |
8 | So what we have , if I can paint it like this , is a development programme which does n't just rely on Oxfordshire Social Services putting cash into it , because there are , if we manage this process properly , other people who we can encourage to bring money into Oxfordshire , but the key thing that 'll only do it is if they 're confident that they 're dealing with a competent organization and somebody that they trust and they have some form of credibility . |
9 | ‘ If you can oblige us with that bit of information you can turn the donkey loose and we 'll find it on the road for the man who reported it lost . |
10 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
11 | and that means that I can photocopy them for half the price . |
12 | These five steps are a counsel of perfection , but most surveys can include them to some degree . |
13 | He can introduce us to some American girls and boys who spoke up about what they noticed and liked . |
14 | I can introduce you to several of my acquaintance . ’ |
15 | We have too many clients to list , but we can introduce you to some of them , confident that they can testify to the quality and effectiveness of what we do . |
16 | We both argued that the levels of er housing development in Craven , Harrogate and to a lesser extent perhaps Amblet Hambleton should not be constrained , so as to reduce erm the the steady trickle if I can describe it as that of migration from the West Yorkshire conurbation to those areas , in perhaps er l looking at the different proposal for the new settlement which might be located in the Leeds York corridor . |
17 | You can trust me in this , though . |
18 | ‘ You can trust him for that . |
19 | " They were wearing army clothes — but you can buy them at any army surplus stores . " |
20 | He can make his birds fly like an arrow — in a straight line , in single file — or can direct them to any place he likes , in any formation . |
21 | 1 can overrule you on this . ’ |
22 | More professionally , you can lighten them to that bleached-bone look by staining them with a white stain , thinned down with fifty percent white spirit . |
23 | ’ I do n't know how you can watch it like that . |
24 | I 'll tell them you can borrow it at any time . |
25 | Very crudely we can base it on those elements which albeit often apparently antithetical or contradictory as they seem to be , have figured more or less constantly in discussions on " what design is " . |
26 | However , those with more computer expertise can type them in any order , if they wish , and use the SORT component of the TA programme ( see below ) to alphabetise them before printing out . |
27 | ‘ All I can give you at this stage is fine words when what is needed is action . |
28 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
29 | There is an aesthetic , if we can dignify it with that word , which distinguishes blood sports from each other . |
30 | Sort of , you 've got your health knock out sixty seventy , right we can do it for another year . |