Example sentences of "i can [verb] he [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark says that if it 's a fuel leak I can chuck down a lighted match , but I can tell he 's only joking . |
| 2 | I can tell he 's quite taken with you , for some reason . ’ |
| 3 | From what I can gather he was as mad as a hatter , and really no good at all . |
| 4 | The best answer that I can give him is that the fact that Mr. Thorpe had available to him the escape route of appealing to a health authority elsewhere in the country meant that the process was not carried to its conclusion in north Devon . |
| 5 | I can imagine him being one of these , these , these er husbands who just want , who want , who will want to go out with the lads on his night out and will get , you know , he 's a , he 's ste I can imagine him being one of these stereotypical husbands who goes out , gets pissed , comes back , who wants the dinner on the table and |
| 6 | I can imagine him being one of these , these , these er husbands who just want , who want , who will want to go out with the lads on his night out and will get , you know , he 's a , he 's ste I can imagine him being one of these stereotypical husbands who goes out , gets pissed , comes back , who wants the dinner on the table and |
| 7 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 8 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |
| 9 | If I can say he 's smug because I 'm his sister , I can also say he 's a man of very high principles . ’ |
| 10 | More than that , I think I can say he was loved by the public . |
| 11 | But I can see he 's the worse for wear , the weathering the worker wreaks on himself . |
| 12 | I do n't know , but I can see he 's very good . |
| 13 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 14 | But when I can see he 's not looking , I do so . |
| 15 | In the novel I can believe he is saying such things , perhaps because I am hearing his voice in my head , in the privacy of my own mind ( I am thinking him ) and I am extremely relieved to hear him say them because his words bring to an end a certain kind of conflict between himself and Connie . |