Example sentences of "i can [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can tell there 's someone there . |
| 2 | Well I du n no , I ca n't work out what I can drink best . |
| 3 | If I can capture just one of them , then perhaps we 'll get to the bottom of this . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Look what the wonderful girl has done for me , my darlings , ’ Charles waved his hand to encompass the entire cast , ‘ I can walk straight as a tree , no more will I have to endure the taunts and jeers of the ignorant , I am a new man . ’ |
| 5 | Hoping that by August next year , something 'll come of this photography and I can walk straight into a maybe go to a college or if that is n't on the cards , into some sort of a technical lab or something . |
| 6 | ‘ It will be a great relief to me when I can walk normally again , ’ she muttered . |
| 7 | I can walk away . ’ |
| 8 | I can walk almost normally by now . ’ |
| 9 | I can walk home quite easily from here . ’ |
| 10 | I can walk now ! |
| 11 | The poem we were working on was one of several left unfinished , but I can quote here the first three verses , for their expression of our condition at that time , our sense of being so close together that we were utterly apart from all else : |
| 12 | He forgets I can lean forward in this great chair and give him a good whack across the shoulders . |
| 13 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 14 | Cairns-Smith discusses , in more detail than I can accommodate here , early uses that his clay-crystal replicators might have had for proteins , sugars and , most important of all , nucleic acids like RNA . |
| 15 | Erm what 's the other thing , Yeah the place that I 've just picked up erm a part time job , has said I can record as much as I want there . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sure I can do well in the downhill , ’ Boris continued . |
| 17 | ‘ It is the sort of place I know I can do well at , but it is also an unusual sort of circuit too . |
| 18 | ‘ But this gives me confidence and shows I can do well on grass . ’ |
| 19 | There are three strands of answer to this , each of which has much purchase ; I can do no better than to let the espousers of the three strands speak for themselves . |
| 20 | I can do no better than to quote Thos . |
| 21 | I can do no better than give it my full recommendation . |
| 22 | I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ . |
| 23 | I can do no better than to quote from the trust application document . |
| 24 | I should like to learn what , if anything , I can do here to enrol for any suitable course to get me into the business world or administration as I do not want to wait till I return to the UK , on leave , in mid-June till I begin finding out more about your courses . |
| 25 | But there 's no more I can do here . |
| 26 | It is easy to see that studying the growth and modifiability of neurons is a much harder task than describing them in the state you normally find them , so it is not surprising that much less is known , and all I can do here is to point out some of the interesting possibilities that are opening up . |
| 27 | There 's nothing more I can do here , ’ and he went back to his party . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's about all I can do here , ’ he grumbled , after twenty minutes ' work . |
| 29 | No , I ca n't nothing I can do here . |
| 30 | By breaking it down into something I can do today , there 's a much better chance I will actually do it . |