Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the way , is there somewhere where I can freshen up ? ’ |
| 2 | For my own part , having a little woodland garden , this is one of the two plants which I am forever poking in where I can find a place for another . |
| 3 | ‘ She comes in first thing , but steer clear until about nine o'clock so I can have a chance to explain things . ’ |
| 4 | Many of the Dublin deaf have a smattering of BSL and can talk to me better than I can talk to them . |
| 5 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend and constituency neighbour for giving way so that I can express the East Lothian interest in Monktonhall because Musselburgh bay lies under the east Lothian coast . |
| 6 | An anorexic may tell her friends or parents , ‘ I 'd like to be slim ’ , and , if pressed for a reason , may reply along the lines of , ‘ So that I can wear nice clothes , date good-looking boys , and generally have a good time . ’ |
| 7 | You 're just trying to amuse me — to set it up for me so that I can walk up and down the room gasping and shouting ‘ I do n't believe it ! ’ |
| 8 | I have a mind to recruit a force of my own investigating officers , so that I can carry out effectively what is my sworn duty . ’ |
| 9 | Please arrange for the solicitor to come as soon as possible so that I can sign the necessary papers . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell me how to please you so that I can court you . ’ |
| 11 | I need to be fit so that I can stay awake in that Committee upstairs . |
| 12 | Saying , if I get a farm with cows and sheep and a five-bar gate and chickens and a coop and a metal stream and a few trees about the place and a green field made of billiard cloth and a dog or two and a cat — never mind the cat — and perhaps a fox on a hill … if I get this , with a pair of ball-bearing roller skates so that I can gleam and flash and go backwards through the heavy Friday traffic and be as glamorous as Boy Davids from the Park … |
| 13 | Please could you tell me something about this fish , such as how large will it get , so that I can prepare for rehousing it ? |
| 14 | In time these three will form a screen so that I can arrange for a complete change of scenery on either side . |
| 15 | Welfare Assistant with Infants class gave me her telephone number so that I can arrange to have my hair highlighted by her daughter . |
| 16 | Put that pillow under the small of her back so that I can lift her legs . |
| 17 | And if people mention obstructions I 'll make sure I find out exactly what they mean so that I can identify the threshold of the runway correctly . |
| 18 | I make hot chocolate so that I can sleep more easily and as I sip it I am suddenly overcome with weariness . |
| 19 | In retirement I hope my company will provide me with an office and a secretary , so that I can go on contributing to society from my experience . |
| 20 | A policeman , already working overtime , said calmly : ‘ I hope there 'll be no trouble tonight so that I can go home early . |
| 21 | So that I can go through my designs and make quite certain that there is not one collar , not one cuff detail , not the slightest influence that they could accuse me of copying from them . |
| 22 | I know many children and I enjoy looking after them I plan to do this for my career as I have applied to Suffolk College for a place in the Nursery Nursing course so that I can go on to be a Nanny . |
| 23 | I half hope he 's awake , so that I can go in and sit with him , and stroke his head . |
| 24 | One so that I can go up there and sit and read and erm sit and knit and er learn to type |
| 25 | I 'm the one who puts the barrels on the carts , and then the shire ‘ orses pulls me round the East End so that I can deliver my wares . |
| 26 | Would you be good enough to re-advise me of your full address so that I can send the documents to you ? |
| 27 | I am now trying , in vain , to uuencode the files so that I can send them to anyone who wants them thro' mail . |
| 28 | But all I 'm asking for is an all-glass tank four feet long , and around 18″ × 18″ so that I can watch my shoals patrolling its full length . |
| 29 | ‘ I sometimes think you only invite me so that I can pay the bill . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Put your head close so that I can whisper . |