Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv prt] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Layers of spheres in the square formation can build up to form the body-centred cubic structure . |
| 2 | h ) company experience with forecasting : the more that a company , large or small , can build up forecasting information and experience , the more successful it is like to be in achieving effective forecasts . |
| 3 | I have found an excellent team of people who are highly committed and motivated and who work for N C V O as honorary officers , of staff , as members of all the various committees and working groups , task forces , er , and think tanks , and any other name that we can think up to involve you . |
| 4 | Crashing the car , taking someone else 's life with them , terrible situations , terrible tragedies can come about because a person physically goes to sleep so it can be in a spiritual sense that we can nod off to sleep and not only our lives are involved , but our fellow brothers ' and sisters ' too , |
| 5 | Calf and morocco can dry out to become lifeless and lustreless , instead of sprightly and glowing . |
| 6 | Treatments would include keeping the area clean and dry , moisturisers such as E45 cream can ease off drying and scaling . |
| 7 | Anything to do with geometry unless you 've had a lot of practice and you 're very good at it , you can finish up wasting time . |
| 8 | If he has I 've got to think of something to cook that he can finish off cooking so he can eat it before I get back from aerobics so I can stick mine in the microwave to warm up . |
| 9 | I suppose they can give up drinking cocktails . ’ |
| 10 | Er what the gov the British government would like to see is a resolution of these matters er our precise position er and attitude and er erm the assistance we can give in reaching conclusions is much more a matter er for ministers of the foreign office rather than myself so the honourable gentleman er invites me to tread in areas that do n't belong to me and do not actually belong to these orders that are before us , no they 're not , they 're not really relevant to whether we approve or not the orders that are before us , er I 'll give way in a moment but the honourable gentleman er for I believe wanted to intervene . |
| 11 | And finally , a hotel owner is popping champagne corks tonight after being told he can carry on flying the flag . |
| 12 | And if you 're okay , you can carry on taking one in the morning . |
| 13 | This means that you can carry on kissing her all over , or using your fingers inside her vagina or anus ( but do cover cuts , sores , grazes or skin conditions such as eczema on your fingers and hands with plasters or latex gloves ) . |
| 14 | Anyone who already has a decoder can carry on watching , a spokesman for the Department of National Heritage acknowledged . |
| 15 | You can carry on watching videos |
| 16 | erm , you can , you can carry on analyzing your dreams at your leisure . |
| 17 | Denied a selection vote because of his continuing association with one particular club , he can carry on coaching Llanelli while also — at last — having the input into the national team that many have for years wanted him to have . |
| 18 | Push , push it back there , then you can carry on eating if you want to , then you can sit there |
| 19 | Go on then , you can carry on singing but you 're a bit late . |
| 20 | Er the other thing of course , when you 're down here we can carry on treating you with what 's called a temporary resident . |
| 21 | You you can carry on paying an endowment policy . |
| 22 | Sometimes the baby may be cared for mainly by its grandmother , so that its young mother can carry on leading her teenage life . |
| 23 | ‘ You can carry on doing my washing , if that will please you — and knowing you as I do , I do n't doubt you 'll be in here at least once or twice a week clearing things up and telling me what a mess I 'm living in — just as you do now . |
| 24 | Red Hot 's parent company , Continental Television , is challenging the intention of the Heritage Secretary , Peter Brooke , to outlaw the sale of decoders , though anyone who already has one can carry on viewing . |
| 25 | The only exception to the ban will be linseed — which farmers can carry on burning for another three years because its fibrous stalks are difficult to plough in . |
| 26 | seek agreement from the placement that centre staff can carry out monitoring visits as required ; |
| 27 | There are several simple repairs you can carry out to keep your existing windows in good working order , and so save yourself a massive bill for replacements for at least another year or so . |
| 28 | This is where the fun begins , because you can whip round getting various instant readings from a number of different tanks , pausing only to rinse the unit in tapwater or distilled between tests . |
| 29 | This rna strand is called ribosome , and is somewhat like a computer tape which the rna can zip through to specify the correct amino acid . |
| 30 | We should not be surprised perhaps that children can grow up holding some very strange ideas : |