Example sentences of "can actually [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reverse also seems to be true : the energy plasma appears to be sensitive to psychic and thought forms , so that it can actually move or change shape according to the mind of the observer . |
| 2 | ‘ It was important to us to prove that we can actually dance and sing , ’ says Howard . |
| 3 | They can actually go and chase after a person outside the station if if that is their their wish and at the moment that is erm that will continue to be the case . |
| 4 | You can actually go and work for a living . |
| 5 | Some sites can actually go and order everything . |
| 6 | It 's like , Aids and that like the glue sniffing advert , for instance , put on fo when the children go to bed , but they should be able to see that , sho , they should be able to see look , well that 's putting a message across to me as well , not just the parents , to me , I 'm the one that 's involved and I think that if well maybe the the producers would maybe or the people that do television would maybe put i to say , seven o'clock or that , where young children primary school age can actually sit and watch it . |
| 7 | So that when they come to assessment in the Upper School … they can actually analyse and rationalize why things work and why they do n't , why they should change direction , why they should give up and start again , and why they should logically follow the piece through . |
| 8 | Now , as well as actual planes flying in the skies , are there going to be anything else that people can actually feel and touch and see ? |
| 9 | The other is that it actually fosters in you in-built critical faculties , so you can actually edit and shape your work as you go along , having been taught by the master — the masters of literature — not just the professors , the great writers . ’ |
| 10 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century you get people like Jane Austen writing , writing about heroines with minds of their own , women who can actually think and talk and do all sorts of things that very often in literature women had n't been conceptualised as doing before . |
| 11 | You can actually repair or replace feathers , at least primary and secondary ones ( the larger wing and tail feathers ) , by some very ingenious methods . |
| 12 | if you can actually try and find one . |
| 13 | ‘ And I can certainly think of ways in which I can talk about this in such a way that Mrs Jones doing her washing up , Mr Brown driving to work , E H Os idling time in their offices , listen to the radio , can actually listen and enjoy it . ’ |
| 14 | I can actually plan and get my directions in a very positive sense . |
| 15 | He puts forward the concept of the ‘ eye-beam ’ as an instrument of perception with which we can actually touch and feel objects : |
| 16 | They are possessed of a handful of skills and attributes which many of the rest of us lack , such as numeracy , and a general ungullability , and ( presumably ) a penchant for cryptography , so that they can actually penetrate and comprehend the tortuous laws and regulations they must administer . |