Example sentences of "can do [pron] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a right I reserve for all adults and one of the nicest things about being my age is that I can do whatever I like . |
| 2 | ‘ Nick says I can do whatever I like ! |
| 3 | I do n't want to be tied , I want to leave my options free so that I can do whatever I want , I do n't need the extra responsibility , I mean I 'd like them but I just , I want my career first . |
| 4 | But erm the doctors have told me really I can do whatever I want to straight away virtually you know , and erm I 'll just give it another week or two weeks before I start practising erm and you know , I 'm very fit now . |
| 5 | I 'm glad he 's gone — I can do what I like , now . ’ |
| 6 | I can do what I like on these pages , and nobody on earth can prevent me . |
| 7 | I 'm the chairman and I can do what I like . ’ |
| 8 | And to this she had answered , ‘ I suppose I can do what I like with my own money . ’ |
| 9 | I can do what I like . |
| 10 | ‘ When I 'm eighteen and can do what I like , I 'll eat all my cakes uncooked , ’ Benny pronounced . |
| 11 | I can do what I like . ’ |
| 12 | And although the sub-text of my increasing thinness ( which I chose to ignore ) read , ‘ I am doing this because I feel so helpless that not even my own body belongs to me ’ , the apparent text read to me , and increasingly to others , ‘ My body is my own and I can do what I like with it . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm nearly seventeen and I can do what I like . ’ |
| 14 | " But they are powerless to do anything ; this chapel was built for my mural paintings and I can do what I like . " |
| 15 | ‘ I can do what I like , and I intend to stay with you , unless you object . |
| 16 | You can do what I 've described . |
| 17 | And er I thought I can do what I did at forty , and I did it , but look what I 've got now . |
| 18 | But I can do what I want , so perhaps it is possible to use one or two frames of a timpani shot to realize a particular moment in the music . |
| 19 | I paint my nails , I do what I wa I can do what I wan na do . |
| 20 | If we can do more — if we can do what I have described — so be it . |
| 21 | Or you can do what I have just said , which is , say ‘ I , I 've made a mistake there , I think I 'll do it again , what I want to say is this . ’ |
| 22 | Sue Parker — mother of Julian , who 's only eighteen , by the way , ’ added Leonora with a wicked little grin , ‘ is keen to go into partnership with her , and I can do what I do just as easily after I 'm married as before . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I can do anything I damned well like ! ’ she shouted back at him . |
| 24 | ‘ I can do anything I want to do . ’ |
| 25 | I can do anything I want . ’ |