Example sentences of "[subord] i can [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is always something delirious about language — the burgeoning , bubbling Remainder that has been left out of the dry official structure comes crashing through my best-formed sentences — so I can feel it speaking through me . |
| 32 | Now jump into bed so I can tuck you in . |
| 33 | ‘ I like a film to have a beginning , a middle and an ending , preferably in that order , so I can follow it , ’ he says , Mortimer 's screenplay knowingly making him paraphrase Godard 's view that a ‘ film must have a beginning , a middle and an ending , not necessarily in that order . ’ |
| 34 | I 've asked 'em to sell me the land so I can develop it but they wo n't see sense . |
| 35 | But if I give some names to Mr next week I think yes well I 've got them at the music later today so I can ask them then . |
| 36 | Maybe next time you 'll wear a pink carnation/ so I can recognise you — hooo ! |
| 37 | Please send me a subscription so I can cancel it in disgust . |
| 38 | I 'm really well adjusted so I can let it all hang out . |
| 39 | Eunice : We own this place so I can let you in . |
| 40 | ‘ So I can kiss her , all bare and smooth . ’ |
| 41 | Outside the cage the photographer 's saying : ‘ When you jump , spread your arms and legs so I can see you . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ Will you share a drop with me ? ’ he says , waving the bottle so I can see it . |
| 43 | They 're fixing one on Monday so I can see it but I 've already talked to other people who 've done it and they 're so popular . |
| 44 | I try to take it off so I can keep it , but the paper tears . |
| 45 | I can literally push the bird out of the tree into a net or a box so I can take it home , because it ca n't see to fly off in the dark . |
| 46 | 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 ’ . |
| 47 | I 've had a marvellous clear out — got every single shirt on to the line — and when you take that off you could put it in the bucket so I can get it out tomorrow . ’ |
| 48 | Under these conditions he might say the following : ‘ If I can satisfy you that the fuel consumption of this car is no greater than that of the Vauxhall Cavalier , would you buy it ? ’ |
| 49 | But if I can leave it running and it runs out it will suit me down to the ground . |
| 50 | So what we have , if I can paint it like this , is a development programme which does n't just rely on Oxfordshire Social Services putting cash into it , because there are , if we manage this process properly , other people who we can encourage to bring money into Oxfordshire , but the key thing that 'll only do it is if they 're confident that they 're dealing with a competent organization and somebody that they trust and they have some form of credibility . |
| 51 | ‘ I think I ought to take you to the farmhouse to be seen to — that iss , if I can carry you . ’ |
| 52 | I do n't eat breakfast , just a cup of tea and a bit of toast if I can spare it . |
| 53 | Never , if I can prevent it ! thought Gabriel . |
| 54 | Well , if I can check it on the plan , it 's , the plan actually shows half the site , there 's the central slide way way coming down through the development site , all that occupies , all one side of the slide way . |
| 55 | Oh I had one bloody customer see if I can quote him to a complete relocate , it was only a bloody er systems , probably no taller than that speaker |
| 56 | ‘ Tomorrow if I can fix it , Wednesday if not . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ If I can handle you , I can handle Quigley . ’ |
| 58 | So I 'm gon na ask her if I can borrow it |
| 59 | And certainly we have kept the amou the amount of administration down to a bear minimum if I can show you . |
| 60 | I have been sent to ask you whether , if I can arrange it with the captain , you would consent to look after them . |