Example sentences of "thing i can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think there must be things I can do now , lucrative things , to get me out of this scene . |
| 2 | He seemed to be saying , ‘ Listen Geoff , there are some things I can do for you and there are some things I ca n't . |
| 3 | There are plenty of things I can do really well . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't like wasting my energy worrying about things I can do nothing about , ’ Sally said matter-of-factly . |
| 5 | All these things I can do , to prevent death . |
| 6 | Yet there are no places I can go , things I can observe that , as a policeman , he can not . |
| 7 | I think I also write better bass lines than I did before , because when I 'm writing with my sequencers and things I can think ‘ bass ’ very easily . ’ |
| 8 | Those are things I can relate to . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There 's things I can look at . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , I must talk , ’ said Patrick , ‘ pardon gentles all , I must while the light is with me , while I can see , Oh the things I can see — ’ |
| 11 | ‘ These are the things I can see . |
| 12 | Because she said if any of you move out she said unless you move into a but I , she said you , I got , the only things I can take are , is the , a chest of drawers |
| 13 | Many girls were saying to me , ‘ I ca n't cope with having breasts , the hassle it brings , the fear of rape or the jokes and remarks from boys , the idea that I must be a slag or a ‘ goer ’ , so rather than try to deal with the whole world ( which I ca n't ) , I 'll just turn all my anger inwards against myself , against the thing I can control : my body . ’ |
| 14 | The only thing I can do now is to let out a great shout with you , ‘ Ça ira ’ for men and for people , believing that man is a world worth many times the world and that the most ardent ambitions are those which have the pride of Anonymity . |
| 15 | It 's the only thing I can do ’ . |
| 16 | You see , it is n't easy to get this kind of job without having had previous experience , and it 's the only thing I can do , because I 've no qualifications . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's the only thing I can do , ’ she snapped . |
| 18 | The best thing I can do is forget all about him , ’ she told a close friend . |
| 19 | As this is not a book on careers in advertising , the best thing I can do to give you an idea of the sort of people you might conceivably find in an agency is to refer you to the books by Norman Hart and Felicity Taylor ( see page 232 ) which describe them all very comprehensively . |
| 20 | ‘ And there 's not a thing I can do , is there ? ’ |
| 21 | Now it 's me doing the only thing I can do because I have to make some money . " |
| 22 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 23 | The only thing I can do is straightforward police work . " |
| 24 | That 's one thing I can do and he ca n't , thought Mike . |
| 25 | I owe them more than money can pay , Gina , and finding Svend and trying to talk some sense into him is just one small thing I can do . |
| 26 | And then I r I realized that the job was only gon na last a year , cos it 's only a year job , so the best thing I can do is to go all out for what I wan na do when I leave the centre . |
| 27 | The best thing I can do , with your permission , Council , is invite Inspector to talk about what we 're gon na do for er er a police section in . |
| 28 | ‘ And one thing I can do in the dark , ’ he said , ‘ behind my own back while I keep the peace . |
| 29 | Well I was saying to Alison , the only thing I can do is when I phone him |
| 30 | the only thing I can do is to get somebody who does n't know , who |