Example sentences of "can [verb] [pron] [conj] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | Because I can promise you and I can promise you I get you a guarantee that if you get good at those things , you 'll be successful . |
2 | Run ! at me but the message is n't getting through , there 's something else in the way , something else pulling me back , back to Andy and back to that frozen river bank ; I hear Andy crying out and I can still see him reaching towards me and he 's about to slip away from me again and I ca n't do anything … but I can , this time I can ; I can do something and I will . |
3 | exactly , it 's the only way you can do it and I would n't do it any other way , because I do n't bel I do n't , I do n't think it 's fair , if I was using the phone continually I 'd get rather annoyed , I mean that I 'd , they 'd have a right to be annoyed , but as I do n't I think it 's ridiculous so I 'm not hardly surprised at all , so I think it 's stupid as you say , but there you go . |
4 | I do n't know about you , but if I had to sort of pass something on to somebody else to check , if I can see somebody scribbling on it , I , I , I , I feel quite edgy , I hate it , I like to feel that I can do it and I can do it well and that other people do n't need to have to amend it . |
5 | But I can assure you that I would n't have lasted five minutes in what , by any standards , is a very tricky and difficult market if I had n't been able to cope with the work . |
6 | I mean I can move it and I can make i but I , I do n't |
7 | town I shall go around there , you can drop me and I 'll make an appointment there while we 're there . |
8 | But I think I can take it that I must have been a little — er — unsteady with my actions . |
9 | My life is set to go on as it always has and no war can change it that I can see . ’ |
10 | ‘ I can drag you or I can carry you — except that it would probably kill me . ’ |
11 | you can get it and I 'll |
12 | The villa 's booked , the flights are booked — Charles can cancel his and I 'll transfer mine over to your name … ’ |
13 | Personally , I would much rather just give it away to someone who can handle it if I could find them . |
14 | But I can ask him and I 'll |