Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [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 | " It 'll warm his little heart for once , " he thought , " and if the leaders do get attacked , I suppose we can spare him easier than some . " |
| 3 | ‘ Surely you can spare me ten minutes — say a quarter of an hour ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I can spare you half an hour before my presence is called for in the refectory . |
| 5 | His memory scarce can make me sad … ‘ |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Yeah you can make me some , I do n't know what I , I do n't want anything but I du n no |
| 8 | Only a judge and a jury can make him guilty . |
| 9 | Come and see if you can make him calmer , please ! ’ |
| 10 | These people here can make him useful to society . ’ |
| 11 | They can take their minds off it , but it can make them irritable or ‘ difficult ’ . |
| 12 | On the other hand , feeding deer can make them half tame and easy to see . |
| 13 | This can make them difficult to remove from detectors with individual ‘ drop in ’ battery compartments . |
| 14 | By simplifying and emphasizing the features of major strokes we can make them easier to teach but paddle strokes are only copies of the real thing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | plus something , and an seven times that one would give you minus pass onto that , then twenty four times twenty four is five hundred and seventy six , I square , for it 's minus I square , minus formula cos then when I add to add I get six hundred and twenty five , it 's just , it 's one , you know like the three , four , five , triangle , in Pythagoras , yeah , you know , when you get three , four , five , and you can make them three squared , four squared , so is five squared , right , well , seven , twenty four , twenty five , is another one of those , right that 's how I knew seven , twenty four , I knew is six hundred and twenty five , that 's how I , that 's how I knew it 's . |
| 18 | And also I think , which is very strong and I think it does come out in , in the Chinese Communist Party , is the lust of power which can be even more dangerous when you convince yourself I 'll do all you lot good but I can make you all members of the Communist Party , whether you want to be or not does n't really matter , you know , it 's gon na be for the good of the country so you fall in with this trap of assuming that you want is for their good so it 's sort of a , a dangerous thing . |
| 19 | If I can make you all happy then that is my greatest ambition . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ? . |
| 21 | ‘ I can make you shut up ! ’ |
| 22 | Only Croner can make you this promise , which is backed by our considerable expertise gained over 50 years as Britain 's leading loose-leaf publisher . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Being black , female and having experienced racism can make you bitter . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Supermodels can make you sick |
| 27 | The unspoken promise is plain : our brand can make you beautiful too . |
| 28 | " It 's me that 's the only one who can make you happy , Trist . |
| 29 | ‘ I can make you happy , ’ he said to the back of her head . |
| 30 | Give me a chance to prove I can make you happy ! ’ |