Example sentences of "[adv] i can [adv] [vb infin] that " in BNC.

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1 So I can honestly say that I 've never known anyone who 's ever played for Leeds .
2 So I can honestly say that I 've never known anyone who 's ever played for Leeds .
3 Although , therefore , I may ( as indeed I do ) very much doubt whether the effect of the agreement , as a conditional waiver of the interest to which she was by law entitled under the judgment , was really present to the mind of the judgment creditor , still I can not deny that it might have that effect , if capable of being legally enforced .
4 However , although ‘ action ’ is to be construed liberally I can not accept that it is wide enough to embrace a non-legal process such as a statutory demand .
5 She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him .
6 Mm , well I can quite see that this maybe the only way that I can help Neil .
7 Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person
8 If the husbands ask why there should be such a penalty , then I can only answer that it is because Parliament has enacted as it did . ’
9 And if some greater authority decides the offence requires atonement , then I can only say that I shall pay the cost of it willingly . ’
10 Yet I can not feel that Adam was to blame .
11 I can not say with any degree of certainty that this is happening , but the rolling performance is part of the bream 's basic instincts , and therefore I can not believe that certain members of a species abandon entirely a basic behavioural activity .
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