Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] [verb] [Wh adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can well remember , I can well remember when our children , when our children were quite young , and er we had such a couple staying with us . |
| 2 | I can well imagine how he must have looked that day , framed by the doorway of the vehicle , his dark , severe presence quite blotting out the effect of the gentle Hertfordshire scenery behind him . |
| 3 | ‘ And I can also see why you 're regarded as a holy terror in the commodity-broking world . ’ |
| 4 | I can hardly remember why I stopped going out with some of my exes but that does n't mean that I brood about them and their later and surely unsatisfactory relationships with men unable to hold a candle to myself . |
| 5 | Given that the units each do their particular thing , I can then understand how they interact to make the whole engine move . |
| 6 | And I can only wonder why none of the BW personnel who knew of our project ever gave any intimation that this wholesale upgrading was being considered . |
| 7 | ‘ I can always tell when you have a cold , ’ she said , brooking no argument . |
| 8 | I can still feel how I felt that day , nearly fifty years ago . |
| 9 | I can still remember how I used to squirm uneasily under his touch . |
| 10 | I can never forget how he used to come over in the evening from Bembridge School to sit with me after my son died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-seven , only eight months after his marriage . |
| 11 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 12 | I can never understand why you took that part though . |
| 13 | ‘ I can never understand why there should be a conflict between science and religion , ’ she says . |
| 14 | Now that I know that George was not his father I can better understand why they always clashed . |
| 15 | She can now go wherever she wants , read whatever she wants … |
| 16 | You can also see why we can not play at being Christians — because God became human for us and took our humanity up to the throne of God . |
| 17 | You can also understand why everybody identified the photos Hamilton brought down as being Hess . |
| 18 | Well thank you Chairman , I have to go back to last Wednesday afternoon , when I had a telephone call from a reporter from the Eastern Daily Press asking me to make a statement on the press release by Suffolk County Council stating that the Bungay bypass has been abandoned well Chairman I have to say that I was somewhat erm put out , because I did I disappoint I think because they , the Highway Department did n't have the courtesy to inform me first , and you can well imagine how I felt er having received this news . |
| 19 | ‘ So you see , dear Therese , when I learned you were to come here , and then I saw you , exactly the same as you were twenty years ago , you can perhaps understand how I felt … ’ |
| 20 | From this you can then judge when you can risk sleeping for an hour or two and so be much fresher for the more likely feeding times . |
| 21 | You can only tell when you zoom out and can take it all in . |
| 22 | I caught sight of myself in that reflected window world that you can only see when it 's dark outside . |
| 23 | ‘ You can definitely understand why he 's so popular with the ladies , ’ comments fellow Comedy Store comedian and Whose Line regular Josie Laurence . |
| 24 | You can always tell when you 've got a floater on the doorstep . |
| 25 | The sad thing is that when you see a horse that is frightened of doing things or is nasty , you can often see where its willingness to please and its trust were abused as a youngster . |
| 26 | You can now see why we wish to commit the G M B to extend the role of health and safety representatives , to embrace environmental issues . |
| 27 | Two questions must be answered before we can logically determine how we are going to handle any of our assets . |
| 28 | If we know how something behaves , we can sometimes guess how it works . |
| 29 | Just erm before you do and so that we can all follow where we 're getting to erm what witnesses are you going to call ? |
| 30 | We can only surmise how they got there . |