Example sentences of "i can [verb] [pron] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can tell you one thing — Morgan is n't allowed anywhere near this place . |
| 2 | I can tell you one thing , I wo n't be here to be used as a buffer . |
| 3 | ‘ I can tell you one bit of good news , ’ she began nervously . |
| 4 | I can tell you one thing — the pater wo n't give you his blessing . |
| 5 | I ca n't prove that lay readers enjoy books more than professional critics ; but I can tell you one advantage we have over them . |
| 6 | Well I can tell you one thing , animals will not go into ours . |
| 7 | No I can tell you one thing though Matthew is n't very good ! |
| 8 | I can quote you three particular instances where farmers have rung in with good information only to be told at the other end of the phone what the bloody hell have you rung us for and they 've got nothing within the local police whatsoever . |
| 9 | But your experience on , on one thing , I think , was , I can do it five times better than that . |
| 10 | However , I can do you one unused Canadian passport and a Saskatchewan driving licence , not even one previous little-old-lady owner . |
| 11 | I can give him two more injections in about half an hour , but — ’ she shook her head again' — it 's a losing battle , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 12 | But I mean in terms of knitwear over the last few years I can give you one or two examples which I think you 'll readily er understand . |
| 13 | Yeah , well I think those are when , you know , if , if I take one of those with me and somebody s and somebody er says well why , why are you taping this conversation you know , you , I can give 'em one of those |
| 14 | Mistletoe is very scarce and dear this year , and I can offer you seven pounds for it . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm being honest er Rod if I can earn myself twenty five thirty thousand I 'm not I 'm not looking for you know fortunes . |
| 16 | ‘ I can visualize you three duelling many times till you inoculate yourselves against any trace of enmity . ’ |
| 17 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 18 | Well I got to work all day and I 'm still oh do you think , want me I can get you two I 'll write you a list , . |
| 19 | because then you can get , I can hear you two talking , and see what you 're doing during sport , great idea , should try that . |