Example sentences of "[subord] i can [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I can now see the inherent sense in glueing a book to a table , then the point was just beyond me . |
| 2 | If I can just reach the horses , thought Floy , moving stealthily forwards . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But if I can just reiterate the criteria . |
| 5 | ‘ If I can just see the baby . ’ |
| 6 | So er if I can just have the lights off at this stage please . |
| 7 | 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 ! ’ ) . |
| 8 | You do n't need to do that now look cos I can just carry the thing into the kitchen . |
| 9 | Whilst I can readily see the subversion in a band like the Sex Pistols ( whom Ambrose signed to EMI Publishing ) , what about Sigue Sigue Sputnik ? |