Example sentences of "can [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can earn my own money . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I can spare you half an hour before my presence is called for in the refectory . |
| 3 | Yeah you can make me some , I do n't know what I , I do n't want anything but I du n no |
| 4 | On the other hand , feeding deer can make them half tame and easy to see . |
| 5 | Ideally , it is a major feature of this type of product , and one for which the advertised brand is actually superior : but it could be some general characteristic which , by getting in first and appropriating it to itself , the brand can make its own . |
| 6 | A board can make its own arrangements for considering such applications ( subs . |
| 7 | The proponents of this approach to policy claim that it will encourage a more stable background in which the private sector can make its own investment and spending plans with greater certainty about future government policy ; that it will prevent abrupt and damaging shifts of policy ; and that it will make government manipulation of monetary policy for electoral purposes more difficult . |
| 8 | A local authority can make its own arrangements to arrest defaulters , which can include the use of bailiffs , and the defaulter must comply with such a warrant from the court . |
| 9 | Most of the living cephalopods also have an ink sac which injects a smoky fluid into the water when the animal is threatened , under cover of which they can make their own jet-propelled escape . |
| 10 | I 'm sure the Delia Copes of this world can make their own boring magazine . |
| 11 | This is important to individual sites so that they can make their own assessment of the value to them of adopting what has been identified as best practice elsewhere . |
| 12 | They should be based primarily on resource materials , which might include samples of language data ( spoken , written , literary , non-literary , standard , non-standard , English and other languages ) and facts and figures about languages in Britain and around the world , and associated activities which are essentially concrete and problem-based , so that the pupils can make their own enquiries , and so that the teacher can learn alongside the pupils . |
| 13 | 1991 : Recordable CD ( CD-R ) becomes a reality , with demonstrations of a Denon -manufactured system at a September hi-fi show held at a Heathrow hotel pulling huge crowds ; the time when punters can make their own CD compilations looms ever nearer . |
| 14 | Guests can make their own private calls and the metered units will be recorded automatically against their room . |
| 15 | Erm we 've er we you 'll be looking at education , our biggest service , and a service which we should which is going through some very profound changes at the moment where we 're trying to er increase the resources that are within individual schools so that they can make their own decisions erm about er how they best meet the needs of their youngsters . |
| 16 | Instead we should be giving people information so they can make their own decisions ’ . |
| 17 | Normally the best way forward is to create a stable environment and to cut corporation tax so that businesses can make their own investment decisions , rather than to distort those investment decisions . |
| 18 | to devise an administrative pattern and way of working in which different disciplines can make their own distinctive contributions to a common area of study ; |
| 19 | Clearly , the big groups can make their own approaches but how can the small , independents hope to play a serious role in the proceedings ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If I can make you all happy then that is my greatest ambition . ’ |
| 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 | Let's see if you can make it all the way to the front door before Rosie gets you . |
| 24 | It can make it all worthwhile having someone like you to teach , one of the bright ones . |
| 25 | Oh I can make it all proper . |
| 26 | Good morning David , I 'm enclosing three pages of a fax which I have just received from Teagasc capital T E A G A S C which is self explanatory stop , I hope you can make it all out , comma , if not please come back to me , full stop , paragraph , it would be a help if you could get your shipping agents to provide us with the rates they would have charged paragraph , many thanks and best regards , Sam . |
| 27 | See if you can make it any bigger . |
| 28 | Alternatively you can make your own way between resorts — our representative will advise you . |
| 29 | There are many types of bin sold to keep the compost area tidy and clean , or you can make your own . |
| 30 | It is suggested ( though you can make your own rules ) that each ‘ side ’ ( even if there are only two players ) play through ten wickets each ( or to an agreed score ) , recording each score along with any extras and how out . |