Example sentences of "can still [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm honest too but I can still tell a joke . |
| 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 | The man who divides a nation between adoration and anger , but an all-time great fly-half who , at 34 , can still control a game — indeed , turn it on its head . |
| 6 | ‘ You can still make a bit of money and enjoy yourself without ripping people off . |
| 7 | And of course all that is a play-off against you know keeping that franchisee er involved and keeping them feeling that they can still make a profit . |
| 8 | I can still make a flight back to Blighty which will connect with the last plane to Inverness . |
| 9 | He looks more relaxed now on stage than he did in his cheek-busting days in Head to Head , but can still make a sax cry when he wants . |
| 10 | Boss Laughton insists his troubled team can still make a charge for the Stones Bitter First Division title . |
| 11 | You just do n't have the people jumping onstage going , F**k Margaret Thatcher , anymore , but you can still make a point . ’ |
| 12 | You just do n't have the people jumping onstage going , F**k Margaret Thatcher , anymore , but you can still make a point . ’ |
| 13 | If your word-processor does not support template documents , you can still create a template file but you must remember to change the file name before saving to disk . |
| 14 | ( Even when G is not a tree , we can still choose a root for it . ) |
| 15 | A pigeon can still leave a deposit on a new car . |
| 16 | He 's lost a friend himself , but can still spare a thought for a near-stranger and the way he feels about a woman . |
| 17 | Shubunkins and comets are slower growing but can still reach a length of 8–10 inches . |
| 18 | It 's a new device , whereby , thanks to the wonders of electronics , a star can still give a performance without bothering to learn the lines . ’ |
| 19 | An older horse , even one into his teens , can still give a lot of fun . |
| 20 | THAT 'S MY BOY : And Ray can still raise a smile as he gives Louis a leg up |
| 21 | I mean you can still get a reference off me old company which er you know the London |
| 22 | Well I can still get a couple of Christmas presents with that anyway so it does n't matter . |
| 23 | At the moment the show may be a little too chaotic , but you can still get a sense of what Neale means . |
| 24 | Yes , yes , and then Barnsley , so I can still get a bit of a rough . |
| 25 | The good thing about the forest is that you can have a lot of people around and still not have everybody in one area , you can still get a feeling of wilderness . |
| 26 | Brave souls can still try a dip in the English Channel and there 's plenty of things to do if the weather does its worst . |
| 27 | Tom Hickman , painter and former dealer , claims : ‘ You can still furnish a house for a song if you know where and how to look . ’ |
| 28 | They say you can still see a gap in the treeline where the Hurricane shaved the tops off what would then have been saplings . |
| 29 | In a review of John Betjeman 's verse-autobiography Summoned by Bells ( 1960 ) , Philip Larkin remarked approvingly that Betjeman , in his triumphant lucidity , had managed to bypass the whole light industry of exegesis ; that Eliot 's famous demand about the need of poets , in the present state of civilisation , to be difficult could only be an ingenious bit of intellectual job-creation , a Modernistic charter to make work for unemployed critics ; and that the tradition of Kipling and A. E. Housman stood ready to hand for instant revival , ever eager to prove that poetry can still enjoy a reading public if only the poet is prepared to be simple , moving and memorable . |
| 30 | And the most dangerous players in the world today are those athletic and financially secure ones who calculate risks with the astuteness of a bank manager , but go for the first prize , if possible , and the subsequent contracts , knowing that if the high-flying fairway wood does n't clear a ditch at Augusta , they can still enjoy a steak dinner tonight , thanks to a pitch and single putt ! |