Example sentences of "can [verb] [pron] [prep] my " in BNC.

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1 Maybe I can make it to my first home game in 15 years !
2 Sepp has so much experience , he can think himself into my position .
3 I can cover one with my hand .
4 Feeling slightly vexed I decided that all those readers too lazy to write in will be receiving personal visits , so I can introduce them to my favourite topic : ‘ Pain , and how ( and where ! ) to inflict it ’ .
5 There is no way in which he can free himself from my control , not unless I lose my nerve or allow him to be abducted by some plagiarist , and not unless I allow any of my own present personal dilemmas connected with my own personal escape to lodge unbeknown to me in the words which make up this fictional character .
6 The cheapest I can buy them for my dinner is £2.50 per half hundredweight bag .
7 ‘ I can send everything to my children ’ she says .
8 But the princesses will be my sisters-in-law — and I can feel it in my bones that we shall just not take to each other at all !
9 I can feel it in my , in my
10 I can feel it in my bones ! ’
11 As soon as I can do them in my own accent , I 'll be back ’ .
12 ‘ T is true that releasing Stephen will put him back on the throne , but our army can do nothing without my Lord of Gloucester at its head .
13 I can do it on my own . ’
14 There are times when I wish I had someone to look after and who would look after me again , but I am confident now I can do it on my own . "
15 Later on you can bring her into my bed and then go over there and see the New Year in .
16 But whatever you say , nothing can keep me from my home , my place of rest , out there in the open air , with a gravestone at my head ! ’
17 You can see him at my final , he 's up .
18 I can see them in my mind 's eye even now .
19 I can see them in my mind 's eye rising and dancing slowly around the room , their bodies undulating in a controlled exuberance as if lifted out of the world of motor cars , rockets and computerised mentalities into some universal heartbeat , some rhythm of the day , of the night , of the sea , of life .
20 I can see it with my eyes , Grant . ’
21 I suppose in theory I could be lying through my teeth and have some other reason for wanting to go to Strathspeld — maybe I 'm just getting homesick for Scotland — but I 'm certain he knows that I 'm not lying and that there is a body ; I think he can see it in my eyes .
22 Q I have some very thick hand knitting yarn and want to know if there is any way I can utilise it for my standard gauge machine ?
23 It no longer seems as obvious as it used to that I can detach myself from my interactions with other things , observe them objectively , and arrive at facts about them wholly independent of my own reactions and decisions .
24 ‘ Now , ’ wrote a man who signed his letter with a female name , ‘ I can take it in my stride . ’
25 I spent the past nine and a half years doing everything I can to keep everything about my daughter secret .
26 Trying to work out whether I can hear it over my coat .
27 When I have grasped this ( the difference , not the colour chart ) , I can apply it to my present experience in order to see whether the experience is one of pink or of orange .
28 ‘ Yes , while you 're here supporting your partner you can tell me to my face why you intend walking out on me a second time in my life . ’
29 if he can get me through my test , he can get anybody through !
30 Oh well I can get it , I can get it in my car
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