Example sentences of "[vb base] i can [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The hours mean I can collect the children from school and am with them in the school holidays . |
| 3 | I mean I can understand the point of will , will , will |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I mean I can take a form up to the porters in Goodricke and they 'll give me a key to a minibus . |
| 6 | MAX : You mean I can have a go at the tune ? |
| 7 | Oh does she , I , I mean I can have a word with little kids always . |
| 8 | I , I mean I can have a sausage roll and a piece of cake |
| 9 | I mean I can see a typical lot of people at a time |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I mean I can get a bit more off you see . |
| 14 | If you die I can keep the house all to myself ca n't I ? |
| 15 | ‘ Hope I can do the same for you some day . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I need to get a pen oh look I can buy a bed sheet , bed linen anyway , what ? |
| 18 | Now I look I can see the rows of holes in the walls on either side of the old chimney-breast where they were fixed . |
| 19 | We was I said look I can read a bloody clock as well you can , I said I wa walking behind you down the , you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to ! |
| 20 | Erm if you like I can provide a a specific spiel . |
| 21 | ‘ I know I can do the same here , and I 've got the feeling that a lot of people want to help me . |
| 22 | I know I can do the job but I do n't want to put pressure on the board . |
| 23 | In slalom I know I can win every race if I make no mistakes . |
| 24 | ‘ I know I can win the championship this year , ’ he says . |
| 25 | and then it 'll be all the rates , I know I can get a bit of rebate , but er , I do n't do bad really after having some rebate , but |
| 26 | Suppose I can identify a range of cases in which I am wrong more than the putative authority . |
| 27 | I suppose I can get a cab home . " |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose I can get a bus for Baker Street somewhere here ? ’ said a rather gruff voice , addressing Penelope . |
| 29 | Now I think about it I believe I can identify a mixture of floor-polish and dust … cooking , certainly … books , yes … a touch of mildew … and an old and comfortable smell which I suppose is from Millie 's cello case in the corner . |
| 30 | ‘ But I still believe I can win a World or Olympic title — I would n't still be running if I did n't think that . ’ |