Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i can [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also depends on whether or not I can tell you what you want to know . |
| 2 | My argument for functionalism is therefore critically dependent on whether or not I can convince you that progress in one of these areas — cognitive neuropsychology — is unlikely to be simply an illusion . |
| 3 | I know what I feel like listening to , it 's just whether or not I can find it . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sorry about Billy , but I do n't see what it has to do with me or how I can help you . |
| 5 | Where is Andrew ? ’ and eventually I can tell them and Mrs Gould gives a strange little shuddering cry and Mr Gould tells her to get the people in the house and phone for an ambulance and runs away down the path towards the river with the four Golden Labradors barking excitedly behind him . |
| 6 | Now I must return to my people , for their molecular codes are suffering indigital chancre , and only I can save them . |
| 7 | And anyway I can get them in the sale if I choose to fight my way up to London I can get a Liberty tie for about twelve pounds . |
| 8 | Er and hopefully I can attract them to that . |
| 9 | I will do , and then I can pay you . |
| 10 | I have to stare at it very hard , Miss Honey , very very hard , and then I can feel it all happening behind my eyes , and my eyes get hot just as though they were burning but I do n't mind that in the least , and Miss Honey … |
| 11 | Yeah , and you , that taste there 's always a taste in my mouth and then I can feel it pushing its way up . |
| 12 | And then I can do them yeah ? |
| 13 | And then I can give them an idea of price , and we can work out what it 's going to cost . |
| 14 | And then I can give you this . |
| 15 | Seven o'clock I 'll come up and you show me everything that you 've done and then I can make you available to people , yeah ? . |
| 16 | I 'll just take this er rough and then I can edit it . |
| 17 | Oh yeah , what oh yes , oh without a doubt Joan , er you can do it , you could have the name and you could have who talked to them and , and then I can tell 'em that what , I 've done this you see and that 'd be the end of it it does suggest that you do n't tell them before you tell them after and then you sort of give them the opp the opportunity of me knocking , not recording it you see , wiping it off the tape , because it stunts the conversation . |
| 18 | So on Saturday I 'll ask her if she can get them Wednesday for me definitely cos then you can I can get the money off Dad Tuesday you can give it her Wednesday morning , and then I can pick them up Wednesday afternoon when I go over . |
| 19 | But at this stage I have no idea so there 's no point writing out information which is already in place , as it were , and then I can reference him . |
| 20 | I only have to take a moment to get my eyes strong and then I can push it out , this strongness , at anything at all so long as I am staring at it hard enough … |
| 21 | So I put them two and a half up to press with this one and then I can turn it over and I 'll be on to third side . |
| 22 | Every now and then I can see it all so clearly ; a nice log fire and a little round table with a tablecloth , and hot toast with great slabs of butter , and crumpets with honey all oozing out of the little holes , and a china cup with steaming tea — ’ |
| 23 | and then I can take you home afterwards , see if it finishes at three I wo n't be home till quarter to four at the earliest |
| 24 | Could you possibly tell me what this was , what caused it and how I can prevent it from happening again ? |
| 25 | Are you going to put the pudding down on there cos then I can pick it up . |
| 26 | ‘ Fortunately I am here and therefore I can save you a trip , Bernard . ’ |
| 27 | But perhaps I can help you now . |
| 28 | But only I can say I did n't know before , I thought I was happy . |
| 29 | ‘ But now I can use them for a different trade . ’ |
| 30 | The consequences of that assertion , if it is valid , are peculiar and alarming ; but fortunately I can examine it without criticising the sovereign or impugning her judgement , because ministerial advice that ministerial advice is not requisite is also ministerial advice , for which ministers must take responsibility and stand question . |