Example sentences of "[pron] can still [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I can still make a flight back to Blighty which will connect with the last plane to Inverness .
2 ‘ Then if I go back and change I can still make the reception . ’
3 I can still smell the changing rooms .
4 Yet I can still detect the presence of a large lorry or bus out of the extreme corner of my eye .
5 I can still feel the shame now .
6 I can still feel the cold marble under my bare feet .
7 ‘ If I close my eyes , I can still feel the g build as the world smoothly revolves and that bright red tip-tank carves its silent arc across the azure of my mind 's eye ’ .
8 But when I close my eyes , strain my stomach and clench my fist I can still feel the g build as the world smoothly revolves and I see that bright red tip tank carve its silent arc across the azure of my mind 's sky and remember .
9 I 'm honest too but I can still tell a joke .
10 ‘ I was only young at the time , but I can still recall the funeral , and the flat cart with his coffin being pulled up the field by his horse .
11 I can still recall the amazement of finding such a wealth of talent on show .
12 Yes , yes , and then Barnsley , so I can still get a bit of a rough .
13 Well I can still get a couple of Christmas presents with that anyway so it does n't matter .
14 I can still hear the machines . ’
15 It 's not the quietest of cars , but I can still hear the stereo , which is all that matters .
16 I can still hear the tune he played in the band after we talked — ‘ Ai n't She Sweet ’ — and it will always remind me of him .
17 I can still hear the laughter on the slopes and feel the wind on the summit as a quiet congregation knelt in the mist and rain .
18 I can still hear the clatter of coins as they rained on the stage in a steady downpour of acclaim , a habit derived from the days of the gold rush .
19 But I fancy I can still hear the sounds of the metal detector and a globe spinning !
20 Mind , I stayed at the house and did n't have to go to the graveside , but I can still see the procession of people .
21 I can still see the looks of astonishment on his friends ’ faces when they saw me , a white man , drinking out of the same glass . ’
22 I can still see the blood starting from the man 's nose , the way his arms reached out as his feet rocked back on to nothing , and still hear the dreadful high-pitched rabbit cry as his body disappeared over the edge .
23 ( I can still see the Lorimer drive blasting into the back of the net with Bremner barely off-side and no-where near interfering with play . )
24 but it was terrible I was screaming , I was terrified and , and , and I can still see the place you know , there 's something very foreboding about the , the place and the chair was like a
25 I can still win the ball , pass it , and have a lot to give on the pitch .
26 I can still remember the click of the latch as she shut the door behind her .
27 I know about this bit from a telephone call from John — and I can still remember the click as the line went dead at the end of that conversation .
28 I CAN still remember the overpowering smell of alcohol on his breath .
29 I can still remember the intense excitement of ‘ listening in ’ to pre-war Nationals on Friday afternoons that , many years later , seem always to have been bathed in bright spring sunshine .
30 I can still remember the slapping of the leather belts against the pulleys and the almost firework display as sparks flew when steel was being shaped on a grindstone .
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