Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [pron] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but I can only do it if I am convinced . |
| 2 | ‘ I can only assure you that I did not break into your house with any harmful intent . |
| 3 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 4 | ‘ The compositions are always so bad I can only face them if I do so right away . ’ |
| 5 | So when Esquire ask for their 2,000 words next month about the connection between the Croatian Winter Olympics team uniform and Public Enemy , or the brutal point of Michael Barrymore , I can somehow contrive it that I end up writing about how it feels waiting for Maddy 's first smile , about the wonder of her 35th day , about her growing up and me growing up . |
| 6 | I 'd like a piana from you for Christmas or if you can not get me that I would like a bike . |
| 7 | I can not take you where I am going . |
| 8 | I can not see her but I can summon up her presence . |
| 9 | you 'll probably say well that is does n't er quite ring a bell , because you 've never used it and you can not use it until I tell you what it is |
| 10 | and er , you see , and I can still do it because I know N D N D N D and they keep answering that . |
| 11 | I can still picture him as I knew him , his sensitive , ascetic face etched with lines of pain but lit by his innate kindliness , his lean body in comfortable country tweeds . |
| 12 | Well we have n't got the cards for that but you can still buy it and I 'll give you a credit card or something to use instead . |
| 13 | I can still see her as I first met her , a skinny , energetic schoolgirl with a flower in her shining black hair , who quickly grew into a beautiful woman and whose life became entwined with mine as together we triumphed over disease , over prejudice and even over war . |
| 14 | I did the best I could in the circumstances , Mr Calder , but you can hardly blame me if I find it difficult to appear besotted with your charms ! ’ |
| 15 | He 's calling out to me now but I can hardly hear him because I 'm screaming so hard , wetting my pants as I squeeze the screams out . |
| 16 | If you have vegetable dishes , you can usually help yourself And I like variety in my food . |
| 17 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 18 | Well I can probably tell you cos I , I know most of the stuff that Cassie 's sworn secret cos she normally tells everyone else . |
| 19 | I can even slice it and I 've only played golf once . |
| 20 | Maybe I can never convince you that I am other than a spirit , for what I have to tell you is this : that I have come from two hundred years in the future to speak to you — to sit here by this window and talk as we talk now ! ’ |