Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [pron] first " in BNC.

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1 It is at this point that we can make our first connection with the emphases we have laid out at the beginning of this book .
2 ‘ There they are sorted and put back on the vehicles and re-delivered so that the franchisees can deliver them first thing in the morning . ’
3 No injuries ; they 're unchanged , which means Nicky Summerbee has won that number 8 shirt and can consider himself first choice .
4 Well no , you can do it first .
5 I can remember me first Mother 's , what she called , automatic washer .
6 I 'll just recite it through quietly to be sure I can remember it first , shall I ? ’
7 Thus while Deryck Fox can celebrate his first call-up since 1986 , it is only with the knowledge that he will be discarded if Gregory is passed fit .
8 Having recorded the guide-track , you can use it directly to cue the sections of music into place as you pre-record them onto the sound tape , or you can convert them first to tape-counter references ; another alternative is to mark their positions on the back of the tape with a wax pencil or felt-tip pen .
9 Its end is both sticky and muscular so that a toad can use it first to grasp a worm or a slug and then to carry it bodily back to the mouth .
10 ‘ Not if we can see you first ! ’
11 It helps if you can limit your first list to those skills you will require in one clinical area .
12 You can purchase your first FREEDOM TICKET and renew it at any Post Office in Oxford or at The Broadway , Banbury Road or Mill Street offices in Kidlington itself .
13 Will he ensure that everything possible is done so that Derbyshire can have its first opportunity to have a university , in contrast with Nottingham which will have two , Leicester which will have three , and Loughborough which will have one ?
14 His connections have kept him in training because he showed plenty of ability on the gallops and their decision can pay its first fruits with a win today as he looks a cut above Debsy Do and Nellie Dean .
15 Lying in rows on the floor , we breathed deeply without pause , the idea being that we can cleanse our bodies of negative thoughts and that some , by actually reliving the experience of their birth , can release their first hang-ups .
16 You can write your first paragraph when you have finished the rest of the essay ; and at that point , you will definitely be able to promise what the essay will cover — because you will have already written it .
17 ‘ Counties have sponsorship deals now for pre-season trips , although at Essex we have never believed in pre-season tours because April is the only time you can get your first and second XI captains together . ’
18 Erm I can recall my first day at school .
19 far back in my life so I can recall my first piece of actual writing , I have a scrapbook at home and I look at it regularly , it had my first pieces of work in it , I usually drew pictures and then wrote things , my first piece was on A four and I have drawn a table , my mum and myself , I was holding a , I wrote one sentence and it was surprisingly literate this is what I wrote , it is my party and I wait for my friends to come , I did many pieces of work
20 You can compile your first programs as you learn to help you decide if ‘ C ’ is the language for you .
21 If you can kill him first , you wo n't need to out-fly him .
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