Example sentences of "[verb] i can [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast .
2 Why do I think I can do the job better than the other applicants ?
3 yeah , I do n't think I can do the big mower .
4 I do n't think I can answer the question in that form .
5 I do not think I can give the petitioner superior rights .
6 Eventually he said , ‘ This is a very old , heavy trap , and I do n't think I can force the thing apart .
7 ‘ Do you think I can get a fork under my mask ? ’
8 I do n't think I can remember a community reacting with such shock .
9 I mean I can mention the firms , there were several of them in Stapleford , because I know two , but er perhaps as well not to .
10 The hours mean I can collect the children from school and am with them in the school holidays .
11 I mean I can understand the point of will , will , will
12 It depends which relief road we 're talking about , but I think I would accept I mean I can accept the point that er Mr is making about er the relative er benefits in terms of traffic relief afforded by either an inner northern route or an outer northern route .
13 I mean I can take a form up to the porters in Goodricke and they 'll give me a key to a minibus .
14 MAX : You mean I can have a go at the tune ?
15 Oh does she , I , I mean I can have a word with little kids always .
16 I , I mean I can have a sausage roll and a piece of cake
17 I mean I can see a typical lot of people at a time
18 You see I mean I can see the goal there every day , I can see , I can see me sort of getting to the goal , I just maybe sort of go around it , I mean well a bit I mean , since I 've had these two I sort of said , you know , would it , would it be the white handle , let me show you , you know the gold handle and , you know
19 I mean I can remember the nineteen twenty , I I were n't sure whether it was the twenty one or the twenty six strike , and my father was erm on strike , you see , but the ponies had to be thus cared for in the field an I do n't think he received any pay and I remember very well erm going to the , my father applying for relief , and er we had to go and face the erm Court of Referees .
20 Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing .
21 I mean I can get a bit more off you see .
22 ‘ He thinks I can manage the first two years ' bills at Dickie 's new school , but after that I 'll be cleaned out , so God alone knows what 'll happen .
23 If you die I can keep the house all to myself ca n't I ?
24 " This lawyer fellow says I can have a flat in the stableyard . "
25 Martin Heslop , prosecuting , said : ‘ I do not feel I can ask a jury to convict with the measure of certainty required . ’
26 I would like to go with Don , but do n't feel I can afford the pub twice in one day .
27 Hope I can do the same for you some day . ’
28 I hope I can encourage the uninitiated to go out and treat themselves to several for their Christmas stocking as well as see the value of videos as a valid support technique during the long winter evenings ahead .
29 They 've said I can record a s an upcoming seminar that 's on Wednesday .
30 Gav has said I can use the listserver if I want .
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