Example sentences of "can [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A car boot sale can earn you extra cash and save you money by reducing the load your removers have to take to your new home . |
| 2 | His memory scarce can make me sad … ‘ |
| 3 | and with a leprous man came over and began doing a to him saying , Lord if you just want to you can make me clean , and so stretching out his hand he touched him saying , I want to be made clean and immediately his leprosy was , vanished away , then Jesus said to him , see that you tell no one , but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses appointed for the purpose of a witness to them when he entered into Calpurnia that 's the other two , that the other |
| 4 | Only a judge and a jury can make him guilty . |
| 5 | These people here can make him useful to society . ’ |
| 6 | They can take their minds off it , but it can make them irritable or ‘ difficult ’ . |
| 7 | This can make them difficult to remove from detectors with individual ‘ drop in ’ battery compartments . |
| 8 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |
| 9 | But , Pascal tells us , we need to make the effort : ‘ Imagination can not make fools wise , but she can make them happy , to the envy of reason which can only make its friends miserable . ’ |
| 10 | Seven o'clock I 'll come up and you show me everything that you 've done and then I can make you available to people , yeah ? . |
| 11 | ‘ I can make you shut up ! ’ |
| 12 | The distinction is important , because if you are very sensitive to yeast , even the smallest amount can make you ill , so scrupulous avoidance is necessary , especially at first . |
| 13 | Being black , female and having experienced racism can make you bitter . |
| 14 | Swimming off Britain 's sewage-strewn beaches can make you sick , but constant campaigning from The Marine Conservation Society has put pressure on local authorities to tell the public exactly what and where the dangers are . |
| 15 | Supermodels can make you sick |
| 16 | The unspoken promise is plain : our brand can make you beautiful too . |
| 17 | " It 's me that 's the only one who can make you happy , Trist . |
| 18 | ‘ I can make you happy , ’ he said to the back of her head . |
| 19 | Give me a chance to prove I can make you happy ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I can make you happy . ’ |
| 21 | He is the only person who can make it possible for us to become ourselves — to become a true person in an impersonal world . |
| 22 | It is appropriate in this case that there should be an interim residence order , and there should be directions attached to that order that A. be returned forthwith to the care of his father and that G. , R. and M. remain in the care of their father and that there be an inter partes hearing with service of the application as quickly as the Portsmouth County Court can make it possible to be heard , which means within a matter of days not a matter of weeks , because it would be quite wrong for this matter to die down once the child is returned . |
| 23 | He was not predicting the end of American , the nation 's largest airline , but Mr Crandall said changing economics may eventually force AMR to sell parts of American to people who can make it profitable . |
| 24 | Whether we can make it compulsory for cars to be fitted with such devices is a matter for the European Commission . |
| 25 | They can either admit they 've made a mistake , or they can make it compulsory . |
| 26 | I kno , I know I can make it separate like this in a corner . |
| 27 | Very large numbers of synonyms for even a few home addresses can make it impractical , however . |
| 28 | ‘ It means as much as I can make it mean . ’ |
| 29 | It does , however , have some properties which are less well understood , and which , in the view of some data analysts , can make it unsuitable for analysing some contingency tables . |
| 30 | They can make it impossible to read a newspaper , walk down the road , go shopping , listen to the radio or join in conversation . |