Example sentences of "can only [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been tasting bits all day , so when it comes to serving dinner I can only sit and chat . ’ |
| 2 | While Labour seeks to simply snatch the language of one nation from the Tories , the danger here can only grow and it is compounded because it is by no means clear how far a reconstituted and emphatically ‘ un-loony ’ socialism may go in negotiating its own language of toughness on immigration and nationality , even perhaps on humane socialist repatriation . [ … ] |
| 3 | This is the same young man who bit the ear of the governor — and we can only meet and get to know him in the novel itself . |
| 4 | ‘ As for me , I can only shrink and plan a slinking away out of sight , since I love life too much to die . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , something like that … and that 's something that can only aid and assist . ’ |
| 6 | That 's where the blood leads by , okay , on that side of the heart the left hand side of the heart it 's being pumped and therefore the muscle is a bigger muscle , that 's doing the contracting , the blood push out and it relaxes back again and that allows the blood to be sucked back down into the heart , okay , and the next time it 's shh , that goes out and then it relaxes down again and the blood sucks back down into the heart , okay so that 's what it does , all the muscle can do is that , muscle can only retract and then it relaxes , contract and then it relaxes , that 's what the heart 's doing all the time , how many beats a minute ? |
| 7 | Biologists can only watch and wait . |
| 8 | Democracy can only advise and consent , and then only in an indirect and spasmodic manner . " |
| 9 | In other words , if you need to access text and images together , CD-ROM can only retrieve and display the text and then subsequently address the related image data . |
| 10 | But erm it 's all time and it 's erm , you know you do n't know until the day what you 've got , you can only hope and pray it 's there and erm go to the show , enjoy it and erm if there 's a trophy — very nice , then you can enjoy that as well . |
| 11 | Can only mean and pornographic smut survive in the Thatcherite Britain of the Nineties ? |
| 12 | Taking responsibility for your joints and limbs — knowing that it can only enhance and better the quality of your life — is this easy ! |
| 13 | To allow it to maintain the 300 nuclear weapons that it is currently estimated to hold — including 100 tactical weapons — can only provoke and encourage the Arab states ' determination to obtain nuclear arsenals . |
| 14 | President , I 've , er , had lots of advice from my colleagues as to how to respond to the comments of the shop stewards er , I can only respond and say thank you very much indeed for the kind things they 've said particularly , erm , specific point that 's been raised on the industry from my colleagues that are from the Midlands and East Coast the situation currently is that , er , we have decided to ballot for industrial action in E C C and the T & G have decided to ballot for industrial action in , I think its . |
| 15 | If you follow the guidelines given in this book it can only help and certainly will not harm . |
| 16 | The scientists can only wait and hope . |
| 17 | But for the time being , Private Morrison 's family , already overcome by grief , can only wait and hope his body will be released to them soon . |
| 18 | Now Faldo and his European colleagues can only wait and see if the hard work and application pays off at the weekend . |
| 19 | I can only wait and see what happens . |
| 20 | I can only wait and see what happens . |
| 21 | You can only encourage and teach and cajole and provide incentives and gradually open the closed minds of the dominant species on Earth today . |
| 22 | They can only develop and become effective if they happen to land on a female cone . |
| 23 | Thus evolutionary change in a population of organisms can only track and respond to the changes in the environment , continually being wise after the event . |
| 24 | We can only pray and hope it 'll turn out for the best . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I can only weep and wail that my years of workless wandering have left me no riches to offer this holy infant ! |