Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] i can [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | er , the Easter fair will take place on April the twenty ninth , now I 've heard from Goldthorpe , I only heard this week , and their , the production they 're doing is My Fair Lady , now we 're hoping to go on the Thursday , March the nineteenth , the tickets , the balcony is three pound and the stalls are two pound fifty , and they , there 'll be your bus fare on top so if any of you are interested please give me your names this afternoon so I can get them tickets sorted out , right , now if that |
2 | 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 . |
3 | And if you give me dad 's five pound well I can mark his off and then you can tell him then , I 'll leave your card here and you can say you 've paid and you owe me five pound . |
4 | If it 's just a cough to go with the cold then there 's nothing they can do anyway , but if it 's an asthmatic cough then I can give him some erm Ventolin . |
5 | It 's a cold wind too I can tell you a real wintry afternoon here . |
6 | I wish we did n't have so many turtles so I can work it out better . |
7 | I buy unsliced bread so I can use my electric knife . |
8 | When these babies are diagnosed there 's a mad panic everywhere I can tell you , phone calls everywhere , people rushing round . |
9 | and what I want to do is to look at it er over that particular period so I can explain everything to you in full because there are benefits to you in terms of tax savings |
10 | If I dip deep into my memory these 60 years hence I can feel them still . |
11 | Well that 'll do for a minute so I can use it . |
12 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
13 | Okay I that would have been okay in that particular case but you did come back to it as benefit , you say we have n't seen you for such a long time that was a not just look at your policies but to put a , a face to the name so I can become your point of reference |
14 | Yeah , let me eat this last piece of cheesecake then I can help you |
15 | The fact is that every other gentleman there I can tell it 's a hairpiece , yours I could n't . |
16 | And a thousand widgets will generate enough profits so I can pay my workforce , and some profit for myself . |
17 | If er nowt comes here in the morning well I can phone him tomorrow night . |
18 | Very strict recruitment policy here I can tell you . |
19 | The conversation ranged widely through wildlife management , the history of the landscape and of hunting and he was on very shaky ground there I can tell you control of pests , he likened a farmer killing a rat with a dog , to the whole panoply of fox hunting . |
20 | far back in my life so I can recall my first piece of actual writing , I have a scrapbook at home and I look at it regularly , it had my first pieces of work in it , I usually drew pictures and then wrote things , my first piece was on A four and I have drawn a table , my mum and myself , I was holding a , I wrote one sentence and it was surprisingly literate this is what I wrote , it is my party and I wait for my friends to come , I did many pieces of work |
21 | I said Well er do n't worry about that I said er you know But can you give me your daughter 's phone number or address so I can contact her and get this sorted out ? |
22 | You know the games like I can borrow them , if that 's all , look at that , brilliant graphics . |
23 | Can you come in here Tim so I can see you please . |
24 | I 'll just grab my video camera then I can include myself on all my articles , invoices and letterheads . |
25 | Cos if I 've got her letter then I can copy it all down perfectly . |
26 | The sooner you 're on income support again I can sign you up to one of these green forms , so I can give you some advice on that . |
27 | I want the teaspoon so I can eat it when I 've finished my fruit . |
28 | If I have a problem then I can take it elsewhere and find out for sure . |
29 | Seventy grand I paid for it , and that was the national debt then I can tell you . |
30 | Er , so I 'll probably go down and see Dennis , get er a nut so I can get it level , cos it keeps only cutting on half of the side . |