Example sentences of "can [pers pn] really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Okay then what can I really do for you ? — or did you just want to talk about old times ? ’ |
| 3 | Can I really expect her to do that for the rest of my life ? ’ |
| 4 | Can I really mean to personify the community in this vivid way ? |
| 5 | But can I really improve my relationship with the earth by going shopping ? |
| 6 | Can I really throw it away ? |
| 7 | But can I really maintain that the affliction is ‘ visible , painful , incurable , distasteful to others ’ … ? |
| 8 | Can you really tell countries like India and China that they should switch from coal to some other , more expensive fuel or spend heavily on cleaning up emissions ? |
| 9 | Actually can you really face the from the other pathfinders |
| 10 | Can you really hope to marry the practical arts to what are essentially , I suppose , for want of a better word , the arts of beauty ? |
| 11 | ‘ Can you really do that ? ’ said Angalo . |
| 12 | So how much can you really do yourself ? |
| 13 | Can you really give any credence to this ordure ? ’ |
| 14 | John can you really press ahead with this recommendation in the light of the fact that there is clearly such mass local feeling about it such distrust on on a grand scale of the reassurances that you and fellow planners have made ? |
| 15 | I mean , if the cheque bounced three times before your wah-wah pedal went wrong , can you really blame the dealer for being a trifle tardy with the repair … ? |
| 16 | However , hand on heart , even if you are a top dressage rider , can you really justify the fancy dress ? |
| 17 | Can you really justify the destruction of such a fine old building ? ’ |
| 18 | I mean can you really justify supporting somebody with public money who 's producing the sort of work which if I , as a totally unknown person , produced it would be thrown onto a bonfire ? |
| 19 | Can you really set up a specialist tank for £250 ? |
| 20 | Surely the whole point about Telecasters is that they 're tough , they 're basic and they sound ace , and how can you really play a Tele if you 're worried about scratching the thing ? |
| 21 | Can you really imagine anyone hatching a devious plot to take over the school at his age ? ’ |
| 22 | His final message is " Can you really afford not to do it ? " |
| 23 | Can you really afford not to do it ? |
| 24 | But it does seem to me that , can you really trust a front bench , that ca n't work out that I might be slightly over the age of twenty one ? |
| 25 | ‘ Can you really turn the mileage back with an electric drill ? ’ young Michael asked . |
| 26 | We had a glimpse of that with ‘ Nothing Compares 2 U ’ ( she cried , we cried too … ) and she does n't staunch the flow ( ‘ Can you really say you 're not in pain , like me ? ’ — ‘ Speech ’ ’ ) Do n't be fooled by the slight swagger of ‘ Why Do n't You Do Right ? ’ , the fragile , breathy innocence of her ‘ Bewitched , Bothered And Bewildered ’ , we 're just warming up to those where's-my-baby-blues of ‘ Black Coffee ’ . |
| 27 | The costs they came up with included satisfaction ( other than simply getting by without trouble ) ; real communication with colleagues ; idealism ; and self-respect ( can you really like yourself ? ) . |
| 28 | One , stating that ‘ the great task imposed on us in the struggle against Bolshevism resides in the annihilation of eternal Jewry ’ , went on : ‘ Only when you see what the Jew has brought about here in Russia , can you really understand why the Führer began the struggle against Jewry . |
| 29 | ‘ Can you really believe this poor boy is a criminal ? |
| 30 | You have no proof one way or the other , so can you really believe it without that ? ’ |