Example sentences of "can do [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should see what we can do on this matter and expect another report back and then they actually can tell . |
| 2 | Once the information or instructions are put into the microcomputer , the user will want to check ( a ) what has been put in or ( b ) what the microcomputer can do with this information . |
| 3 | I shall see what I can do with this horse . ’ |
| 4 | So what we can do at this point here , Mr Prospect if you cast your mind back to when we first met , tell me how you feel , how , how do you , how , how do you feel today has gone now what should he say ? |
| 5 | But all I can do at this moment in time is tell you where I stand today . |
| 6 | But we believe we know what at this moment the country wants , and we believe it is for us in our strength to do what no other party can do at this moment and to say that we at any rate stand for peace … |
| 7 | Although he avoids arguing that capitalism created a sexual morality to serve its own imperatives — it has no master plan — ‘ the best we can do at this stage is to suggest that the articulation between sexual mores and capitalism occurs through complex mediations — through moral agencies , political interventions , diverse social practices ’ . |
| 8 | The problem is largely an insuperable one , and all we can do at this stage is to bear it in mind . |
| 9 | Yes , there must be be a reason and as I 'm sure , I mean like like the objective , and then what you can do at this stage in the design process is once you 've got the objective then you select those themes or ideas from your what you 've done just now to support that objective , so that when you come up my objective is to convince you or my objective is to inform you then the information that you 're going to give out supports that objective . |
| 10 | Well now what can do for this man ? |
| 11 | We , the volunteers , can do without this hassle . |
| 12 | I can do without this hassle . |
| 13 | ‘ I can do without this sort of thing . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There 's not much you can do in this storm . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd like to make the observations because I 'm of the opinion that most members came into this chamber this afternoon with their minds completely and utterly made up and there is very little that we can do in this chamber this afternoon to change people 's minds . |
| 16 | But what they can do in this case is the manufacturer 's at C , but the manufacturer can not deliver to the shop until maybe two weeks time they can phone us , the carrier , we will then arrange for someone to go to manufacturer at C , pick it up , bring it to us and then we 'll take to the shop . |
| 17 | I thought of life as the Whirlpool of Corrievrikin , where all men struggle helplessly and eventually are sucked into the vortex of death I see that we men have nothing that we can do in this whirlpool except find another creature that will share the hopelessness . |
| 18 | There seems a lot more law firms can do in this respect . |
| 19 | Maybe I 've forgotten or maybe I never knew , but just plain walking in night streets with a pretty girl is the happiest thing you can do in this world . |