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Example sentences of "[conj] i can [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Although I can now see the inherent sense in glueing a book to a table , then the point was just beyond me .
2	Sometimes I have wondered myself , but have made so many friends and learnt so much that I can never regret the decision .
3	‘ If it comes to that I can always use the excuse that Father needed me , ’ she answered calmly .
4	so that I can then confirm the booking .
5	The other element is that the county 's are so dangerous , and that 's actually quite unusual , they 're so dangerous that we consider they present a risk and it has to be me that considers it presents a risk to life , and I can either restrict the use of premises , but I can prohibit the use entirely .
6	Marie turns to look at me , and I can just see the light shining off her eyes .
7	‘ The telephone never stops and I can hardly spare the time even to make myself a cup of tea .
8	And I can hardly stand the smell , I 'm so ashamed in the mornings .
9	Before you and I can ever point a finger to Pilate , what have you done , what have I done with Jesus that is called Christ ?
10	My hair is a very light brown/dark blonde colour and I can never find a permanent colour that covers evenly and naturally .
11	I know about this bit from a telephone call from John — and I can still remember the click as the line went dead at the end of that conversation .
12	But ask me about Boy George 's first time on the show — looking gorgeous in a dress , with make-up and ribbons through his dreadlock extensions — and I can still remember the fevered speculation about his ambiguous sexuality that gripped my school the next day .
13	And I can still remember the pattern .
14	but it was terrible I was screaming , I was terrified and , and , and I can still see the place you know , there 's something very foreboding about the , the place and the chair was like a
15	The damn window 's wide open across there and I can only see the gramophone .
16	I 'm very shy and I can only take a lot of people in small doses .
17	If I can just reach the horses , thought Floy , moving stealthily forwards .
18	If I can just reach the horses and reach up and untether them , I believe we could be off and down the road and the creature would never catch up with us .
19	But if I can just reiterate the criteria .
20	If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’
21	But if I can just quote a couple of cases .
22	So if I can just put a tick there
23	‘ If I can just see the baby . ’
24	So er if I can just have the lights off at this stage please .
25	It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) .
26	You do n't need to do that now look cos I can just carry the thing into the kitchen .
27	But I can probably change the appointment , if it 's inconvenient . ’
28	But I can just see the Sun headline , a fitting follow up to ‘ Paddy Pants-down ’ , to wit : ‘ Is Neil A Nancy Boyo ? ’
29	Now this does n't alter for one moment my recommendation of this as a superb performance , but I can well imagine a non-violinist , with less understanding of the extraordinary soloistic skill involved , homing in on and lambasting the accompaniment , giving only an average rating as a result .
30	I 'm honest too but I can still tell a joke .