Example sentences of "can [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reality children usually start to lose interest after about two weeks once they realize that they can earn them relatively easily . |
| 2 | the appropriate sales person so that he and she can log it away in the manual . |
| 3 | My little Shelley , you are the only woman I have ever met who can make me very happy . |
| 4 | All are such small things , but they can be surprisingly effective in stopping the rot of jealousy from setting in and spoiling family life , and can make her much more contented and secure . |
| 5 | WHEN it comes to mounting a defence against hostile bidders , big German companies can tap an influential old-boy network which , together with legal takeover barriers , can make them all but impregnable . |
| 6 | On some models you can adjust the distance that the blades will open and this can make them less tiring to use for a prolonged period . |
| 7 | You can make them too . |
| 8 | Comment If these results seems rather too trivial to bother about , let's see if we can make them more impressive ( and less " obvious " ? ) by stating their conclusions in words : ( i ) The product of the additive identity with any integer always yields the additive identity . |
| 9 | As the children get used to your interventions , you can make them more challenging . |
| 10 | If you are already a diet winner — and , contrary to what the average survey would have us believe , there are lots of you about — then we can make you even more successful . |
| 11 | We have all heard of the addiction caused by long-term taking of tranquillisers but did you realise that the effect of sleeping pills can last well into the following day and many antihistamines ( commonly taken to relieve colds or allergies ) can make you so drowsy that you should not drive for some hours after taking them ? |
| 12 | ‘ Baby , I can make you very happy , ’ his voice pleads into her shoulder blades . |
| 13 | The fish that swim here carry in their flesh a poison that can make you very ill . |
| 14 | Which just goes to show how an overload of stress can make you totally irrational , she thought fleetingly . |
| 15 | Being primed with the relevant background information can make you much more confident that you are saying the right thing to the right person . |
| 16 | But hypnosis does have a host of special features which can make it profoundly misleading in a forensic context . |
| 17 | The second is that the complexity of many production and commercial processes can make it particularly difficult to weave the coaching role into the normal run of affairs . |
| 18 | And as a result they have the self-confidence which comes from knowing that if you have made it once , you can make it again . |
| 19 | Some basses are a little better than others , but the truth is that by turning up the line level you can make it sound like anything you want . |
| 20 | He is the first Southerner to succeed in New York , and his aides were happily parodying the Sinatra song about the Big Apple : ‘ If we can make it here , we 'll make it anywhere . ’ |
| 21 | The well-known magician Robert Harbin comments ‘ This is great fun as a party trick but you can make it even more fun with a little more showmanship . |
| 22 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |
| 23 | But you see there 's a lot , there 's so many different ways of making sangria , I mean you can make it real rough like just cheap wine , what it should be , cheap wine , sugar and , and fruit , I do n't when I make it I put rum or whisky liqueurs |
| 24 | Today , many young people , with most of their voting years ahead of them , are more likely than before to feel that they can make it alone . |
| 25 | Moreover , greater efficiencies in communication can make it relatively easier to control subcontractors and to separate parts of the vertical chain of supply into more bite-sized pieces . |
| 26 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 27 | First , a murder should be , as far as you can make it so , attention-grabbing . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's my main home as much as I can make it so . |
| 29 | With regard to security at the border , I have consistently said in the aftermath of conferences under the Anglo-Irish Agreement that , although we are delighted that good co-operation exists , it can always be better , and I am confident that we can make it so . |
| 30 | If a panel interview is unavoidable , you can make it more efficient by : |