Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there is nothing I can do only to remember you in my prayers , which I do every Sunday , and wish you all the very best . |
| 2 | The 76-year-old Euro-MP , who currently lives in West Germany , said he would of course not rule out a run some time in the future but for the moment he feels he can do more to promote his country in the European parliament . |
| 3 | Informix says Storm means less work for MIS departments because users do n't have to understand the database schema and can do more work themselves with the tools . |
| 4 | Instead of plumping for shop-bought toys , build up a useful box , filled with everything from buttons to old magazines , which children can glue together to make their own sculptures . |
| 5 | There are many techniques you can use beforehand to help you relax . |
| 6 | Wolf spiders which live on the ground and can run fast chase their prey . |
| 7 | From here they can move forward to interpose themselves when the enemy is too close . |
| 8 | So next time you catch up at the lights with the smug so and so who was stuck to your bumper a mile back , with all the understanding you can muster just remind him that : ‘ There , there dear , size is n't everything you know . ’ |
| 9 | In this way you can try systematically to determine what forces lie behind the unwanted behaviour . |
| 10 | Few of those who can read actually believe what is said even in the more responsible newspapers ; like many Middle Easterners they prefer the racy , outlandish explanation . |
| 11 | One harbours superior thoughts as to just where and in what circumstances her hosts can have possibly imagined her wearing such things , until one recalls that only seconds before one was counting the endless number of stoats ' tails that have gone into the making of the coronation robe . |
| 12 | But although the Criminal Law Revision Committee has declared its support for the present age of consent , its proposals concerning the mental element in sections 5 and 6 can serve only to undermine it . |
| 13 | With larger amounts you will have a choice of fixed or floating rates , which you can switch between to suit your development , while your repayment period can be up to 20 years . |
| 14 | yeah , you can go ok watch her actually because er , she went right back up on these bloody chairs this afternoon , I mean she really cried , oh course I mean she , oh when Catherine come in I mean she 'd not long done it , then she nodded off to sleep I said oh they always say you should try , I mean I |
| 15 | I mean Pat said he can go so tell him to get two tickets and you 'll go with him . |
| 16 | This , however , is a lesson to the Smashing Pumpkins and Alice In Chains of this world that you can be '70s , you can smother your records with guitars and you can play loud like you were Hendrix but you do n't necessarily have to be boring , or totally lumbering to do it . |
| 17 | You can start now to get your , because this is your tree , this is your tree , here 's your branches , and then you start to get your twigs coming off , the way do , so , so and that also , you see that , that can link up with , like that ca n't it ? |
| 18 | To be able to sit in silence with his father , without any need to make conversation — so relaxed together that he can sit there licking his finger and wiping marks off the telephone ! |
| 19 | which often looks quite nice so that even if what you 've found does n't quite match up with what they 've found you can say well look you know these theories , ideas are need enriching , they 're a bit inadequate as they stand because what happens when somebody tells you this , what happens when somebody says this erm you know we can , we can revise them in the following way |
| 20 | And you can say well look I told you so dad . |
| 21 | my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten |
| 22 | And in any case , ’ she added , ‘ if you are lonely I 'm sure there must be any number of — of people you can ask here to keep you company . ’ |
| 23 | It can help just to have someone around to talk to , especially if you 're on your own with the children during the day . |