Example sentences of "i can [vb infin] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can pretend to be your uncle David . |
| 2 | Except Tony says I can return to being Security manager . |
| 3 | The best I can hope for is to be dragged home and given stuff to make me manageable . |
| 4 | The most I can hope for is that I might meet him over a pint and get him to be indiscreet-tell me if there is any dirt on Desmond Seymour-Strachey , for example . ’ |
| 5 | Unless I can manage to be off sick again . |
| 6 | But I ca n't do it — all I can think about is Marie 's face . |
| 7 | She writes the words : arresting images ( lives that go in circles ‘ like a pigeon on a tyre ’ ) , moments of disturbing lucidity amid inscrutable dream-imagery ( ‘ give me what I want/ And all I can think about is losing it ’ ; ‘ why ca n't you do to my insights/What you do to my insides ? ’ ; |
| 8 | The only good and powerful females I can think of are fairies ( ie , not real people ) and for every fairy godmother there are 10 wimpy heroines waiting for a prince to rescue them . |
| 9 | The only reasons I can think of are 1 ) trying to scare Deano into scoring ( ! ) ; and 2 ) work permits . |
| 10 | ‘ The only thing I can think of is that there is a convent near where I live , and they take a few elderly people . ’ |
| 11 | For half of the twelve tracks here , the Labèques use acoustic pianos ( that has always struck me as an oddity , by the way : a piano , or a guitar that was n't acoustic would be damned difficult to record ; the only non-acoustic piano that I can think of is Joseph Cooper 's dummy keyboard ) ; for the others we are told they play ‘ MIDI Grand pianos & Synthesisers ’ . |
| 12 | All I can think of is not wakening the baby , so I say OK and he goes ahead . |
| 13 | I am obsessed by Giles ; all I can think of is whether I shall see him again , and when . |
| 14 | The closest analogy I can think of is that it is very much like fishing , you never know what you are going to catch , you have to pull in the small ones when you are hoping for the big one , but occasionally a big one comes along when you least expect it . |
| 15 | The simplest example I can think of is a hole . |
| 16 | Then , ‘ The only one I can think of is a Miss Moira Russell , Mr Massingham 's secretary . ’ |
| 17 | and the biggest pro for a fax that I can think of is that you can send the message and that 's that , there 's no risk of it dribbling on into , into doubt |
| 18 | I know they have n't , so that 's the only thing I can think of is over there on er that |
| 19 | The only one I can think of is |
| 20 | We have got erm some organisations , the ones I can think of is the Animal Sanctuary that we are all familiar with . |
| 21 | I can begin to be a real father to my girls and prepare for the day when I 'll be a grandfather to their children . |
| 22 | Then , one week , the quietest woman in the group said : ‘ This is the only place where I can afford to be honest , ’ and somehow it seemed the healing process had begun . |