Example sentences of "[conj] i can [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my own part , having a little woodland garden , this is one of the two plants which I am forever poking in where I can find a place for another . |
| 2 | I can cover the front of the house , or I can cover the back . |
| 3 | no completely void because you ca n't severe the good from the bad in section fourteen , your Lordship could n't take a blue pencil and , and , and find some words in section fourteen which say erm , you know , I can take out an article eighty five claim or I can allow an article eighty five claim but I can leave something else in |
| 4 | With regard to the vote in the House of Commons on the proposed European committee of the regions , although I can have no sympathy for anyone who votes with the Tory Government I can understand the SNP 's attempts at embracing reality and moving towards the concept of Europe of the regions . |
| 5 | I never actually experienced the drama of dealing with any lack of moral fibre ( LMF ) cases , although I can imagine the difficulty faced by a CO who is trying to run a squadron in wartime if suddenly he was confronted with a case of LMF . |
| 6 | Although I can see the sense of it , I feel very rejected . |
| 7 | I must admit to preferring bitches myself , although I can see the appeal of a dog . |
| 8 | In a case like this it is often a matter of assessing quickly ‘ Am I sure that I can reach the field , or if I get more sink will I fail to get there ? ’ |
| 9 | I just feel sometimes that I can throw a rock into a pool , and watch the ripples create a certain amount of discussion . ’ |
| 10 | These people never realize that I can stand a row better than any of them , he thought . |
| 11 | ‘ I sometimes think you only invite me so that I can pay the bill . ’ |
| 12 | I like to know that I can paint a hand or fingernail in great detail , almost photographically in contrast to areas of detail . |
| 13 | Yes , thought Dyson , at that I can feel a pricking behind the lids of my eyes ! |
| 14 | What I like is that I can feel the movement and it all gets transmitted to the fingers . |
| 15 | ‘ At least I proved to myself that I can do the business . ’ |
| 16 | But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can . |
| 17 | By this I do n't mean that I can cure the patient , but that I can cope with the situation . |
| 18 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 19 | It is only with the help of adult hindsight and historical analysis that I can detect a period charged with political tension , of doomed innocence in waiting . |
| 20 | Nisodemus said unto them , Do you doubt that I can stop the power of Order ? ii . |
| 21 | And if people mention obstructions I 'll make sure I find out exactly what they mean so that I can identify the threshold of the runway correctly . |
| 22 | It is strange that I can find no reference to these beans in Peggy Earl 's " Tales of Islay " because it was she who told me that they were sometimes called " fairy eggs " and that some of the more wealthy people had them set in silver mounts to wear round their necks . |
| 23 | It is strange that I can find no reference to these beans in Peggy Earl 's " Tales of Islay " because it was she who told me that they were sometimes called " fairy eggs " and that some of the more wealthy people had them set in silver mounts to wear round their necks . |
| 24 | In summer it is not so dense but that I can find the blackbird wherever it sings among its branches and not in Winter so agile but that its changing patterns are conspicuous against the sky , its sound an appreciable susurration using the harp strings of the wind . |
| 25 | Could you tell me so that I can find the statement . |
| 26 | I tell them I am making a good living , that I can support a child , that I want a baby more than anything , but they refuse . ’ |
| 27 | The Lea & Perrins box this time , where Serafin sat , so that I can keep an eye on Summerchild . |
| 28 | You ca n't go wrong , because I 'm so used to doing these operations that I can keep an eye on the cat 's breathing at the same time . ’ |
| 29 | First , I would like you to drive me to Taunton , so that I can catch a train back to London , in order to be at the Variety Theatre this evening for — among other things — a performance of The Hooded Owl . ’ |
| 30 | I hope that I can catch the attention of the Secretary of State . |