Example sentences of "i can [vb infin] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm cursing because the pigeon chooses this moment for an escape bid up the neck of my Spidersuit , plus I can tell they know I must be close but ca n't quite imagine the trans-shed escape route I 've taken . |
| 2 | The conversation ranged widely through wildlife management , the history of the landscape and of hunting and he was on very shaky ground there I can tell you control of pests , he likened a farmer killing a rat with a dog , to the whole panoply of fox hunting . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , Sarah Byrne , you 've strengthened my faith in human nature , even though I can tell you do n't go to church . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I can tell you have . ’ |
| 5 | I can tell you have n't ! |
| 6 | ‘ I can tell you want to go , ’ George said . |
| 7 | Nevill Hall deputy manager Alan Williams said : ‘ I can confirm we have received a formal complaint . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I can confirm we have been carrying out certain inquiries , including the forensic re-examination of material . ’ |
| 9 | Chief Executive Peter Robinson said today : ‘ I can confirm we have called the police and the matter is in their hands now . |
| 10 | I can distrain them damage feasant , but what I want to do is to get rid of them and I am certainly not bound to incur the expense of packing and returning them . |
| 11 | Doing a little research I can give you approximate numbers of the various things the Guild has made since the turn of the century as follows : 645 sets of Mass vestments , 121 copes , 226 altar cloths , 211 albs plus hundreds of pieces of small linen corporals , purificators amices , etc . |
| 12 | ‘ I can feel you want me , Caroline . ’ |
| 13 | I can feel it turn , too , as Millie realizes who she has just seen . |
| 14 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 15 | I know I can make her understand , and then she 'll be able to help me . |
| 16 | I mean , why did n't she tell me the truth , I can understand you know , I could , you know , I could perha if she 'd just tell me the truth you know tell me why she 's u , what she 's up to and that . |
| 17 | in some ways to though , I mean I can understand I think people , some people |
| 18 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 19 | Yeah we do n't want say well you know I can save you tax . |
| 20 | I can read you like a book — some book I 've read six times already . |
| 21 | For so long as I can recall I have always had kennels and an assortment of dogs to help me in my work . |
| 22 | I 'm gon na put that one on to see if I can get me score down . |
| 23 | I can get you access to office space in Mayfair . |
| 24 | Erm , and then Marie 's , to pick up , she gets me milk erm er fo sick of running out of milk and she goes every , twice a week to , to get er , main shopping and just milk on Friday , and she said oh I can get you milk so |
| 25 | I can work it look ! |
| 26 | As long as I can remember we 've been up here |
| 27 | The death grant has been finished quite a long time ago , but there was the death grant erm because I can remember you know this , people telling me about this . |
| 28 | There used to be some nice serials for They used to be thrilling you know , er I can remember I wish they 'd show them now They used to be what we used to call , The voice on the wire and then there was another serial called , Peggo the Ring . |
| 29 | I can remember I 've been on this Gipsy Working Party since you lost control of this Council for the last five years and you 've fought tooth and nail all the way down the line to resist every gipsy site that came in you 've used every manoeuvre that you could possibly do to resist it . |
| 30 | Erm and I I as far as I can remember I think such things as underwear were unknown . |