Example sentences of "[adj -est] i can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cheapest I can buy them for my dinner is £2.50 per half hundredweight bag . |
| 2 | Erm the cheapest I can get them is about two hundred pounds , the fastest I can get them is forty-eight-hour delivery . |
| 3 | If the worst comes to the worst I can do without that . |
| 4 | So what 's the worst I can get , at the end of a telephone session , the worst is that I 'll end up with three appointments . |
| 5 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 6 | Say you 're the nearest I can find in the book , Filton I should try . |
| 7 | Erm the cheapest I can get them is about two hundred pounds , the fastest I can get them is forty-eight-hour delivery . |
| 8 | This is the best I can manage . " |
| 9 | The best I can manage is to say that the thriller is intended to thrill ; it is a succession of exciting events , whereas the suspense novel is designed to create suspense , a series of situations of which the outcome is in doubt . |
| 10 | ‘ The best I can offer you is a head start , get out of here and do n't ever come back . ’ |
| 11 | I might fool the fans , but the best I can hope for this season must be second from bottom and the third preliminary round of the FA Cup . |
| 12 | The best I can hope for is to be dragged home and given stuff to make me manageable . |
| 13 | The best I can do as a manager is a combination of threatening , cajoling and being nice to everyone who can help to give my act the best possible shot . |
| 14 | My owners really wanted a Deerhound — this is the best I can do S J Hale , Cheshunt , Herts |
| 15 | ‘ The best I can do is a heads of agreement outlining Harley 's deal . |
| 16 | If it 's daylight , the best I can do is follow you , stay close . |
| 17 | I do n't claim any great originality or depth , but it is the best I can do at the moment . |
| 18 | The best I can do is to offer you a free ¼ page advert , but I must have all the details in the next 48 hours . |
| 19 | I 'm sorry it 's such short notice , but that 's the best I can do . ’ |
| 20 | That 's the best I can do — a deficit of 11M in 5 ys . |
| 21 | Not really the answer to the question but it 's the best I can do . |
| 22 | Your balls are well separated , I mean , the best I can do is take off the yellow , then I can make the . |
| 23 | Another picture er of the not very good , but erm best I can do , best I 've got . |
| 24 | As that 's the best I can do I 'm afraid . |
| 25 | A whole new generation of music sprouted up , the best I can remember . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm afraid a very weathered cotton sundress is the best I can muster — ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I have to admit , it 's the best I can come up with . ’ |
| 28 | The best I can say is that Boy looked something like , or had something like the feel of , Paul Newman when he 's playing the character christened Chance Wayne in that Tennessee Williams film . |
| 29 | My husband must have been unhappy , that 's the best I can say for him . ’ |
| 30 | These are frail reasons , but the best I can find , for canto 107 to begin with a flourish of Sicilian place-names : |