Example sentences of "[pron] can [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can bear it all , ’ he said , ‘ but the keening of the little girls is hard … hard . ’ |
| 2 | Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way . |
| 3 | Yeah , I do n't know whether I can do it all because erm I need some drills and things to make holes for the fitting . |
| 4 | Yeah well you see you can make quite a few nice little pounds for yourself if you can say to your friends I can undercut I wo n't chat while you get across here if you can say to your friends I can do it cheaper than the |
| 5 | But your experience on , on one thing , I think , was , I can do it five times better than that . |
| 6 | I can do it either way , but the ‘ leg-over ’ style suits Steve because that 's how Tony Hewitt did it . |
| 7 | Cos if I 've got her letter then I can copy it all down perfectly . |
| 8 | Perhaps I can blame it all on the gin ( please , I was drunk , I did n't know what I was doing , it was n't my fault , etc. ) but I doubt it . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think I can stand it any more . |
| 10 | And I can start it all off , and then |
| 11 | I have to stare at it very hard , Miss Honey , very very hard , and then I can feel it all happening behind my eyes , and my eyes get hot just as though they were burning but I do n't mind that in the least , and Miss Honey … |
| 12 | And that it did n't feel it when she was sort of combing it , but now I 'm actually doing that I can feel it short . |
| 13 | I can feel it contracting . |
| 14 | laid out so I can pull it all together . |
| 15 | Similar impressions seem to arise from sentences such as I may leave tomorrow and I can finish it next week . |
| 16 | I kno , I know I can make it separate like this in a corner . |
| 17 | Oh I can make it all proper . |
| 18 | ‘ It means as much as I can make it mean . ’ |
| 19 | The butcher lets me have a pound of dripping now and then and I can make it last . |
| 20 | I can put it all down . |
| 21 | I can , I can put it all in and everything while you then you can go into your lecture . |
| 22 | If I can put it that way . |
| 23 | Erm a few comments I 'd like to start with with Cleveland and the erm the idea that there 's there 's there 's there 's no problem whatsoever in accommodating erm the overspill if I can put it that way or the retention within Cleveland . |
| 24 | Perhaps not quite to the level of the the development that may be appropriate , but but yes , of of the three market towns in in Selby district it 's acknowledged that Tadcaster would have a a less significant role than the other two market towns , if I can put it that way , and yes , there are a number of constraints in Tadcaster , not not the least of which i is an ownership constraint . |
| 25 | Er , we believe that there is a shortfall , if I can put it that way , in quotes , of some seven hundred and fifty thousand in ninety four , ninety five , over what we would otherwise have expected to get if the previous method of distribution er , had been stuck with . |
| 26 | Can I just congratulate er the County Planning Officer on operating in an oasis o of , of if I can put it that way . |
| 27 | So these are all factors in here which er the the Well first of all the general public was provided with a a synopsis of this if I can put it that way in that the en original consultation leaflet included er extracts from this , summaries of it er in the leaflet , er and that set out clearly the differing traffic effects of the outer northern relief road compared with the inner . |
| 28 | It got rid of the crap if I can put it that way , sorted out my priorities . |
| 29 | You mentioned just now about artificial foods , if I can put it that way . |
| 30 | It means a lot of being enjoy being on the wrong side , if I can put it that way . |