Example sentences of "[verb] i can " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast . |
| 2 | I do n't think I can find her lodgings , but I could try to get her into a home . |
| 3 | What do you think I can do for you ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But there is no way I 'm going to go on a tour just now simply to grovel to those people who still do n't think I can sing . ’ |
| 5 | Another asked for the name of a good travel agent , while a third declared : ‘ I do not think I can bear another five years of Andrew Lloyd Webber ; I 'm off . ’ |
| 6 | Do n't you think I can see through that ! |
| 7 | I do n't think I can do it myself . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think I can have her home . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think I can do it , ’ is how he put it when I phoned him . |
| 10 | Why do I think I can do the job better than the other applicants ? |
| 11 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd normally vote Labour , ’ she said , ‘ but I do n't think I can this time . ’ |
| 13 | Hill , bought as a full-back for £200,000 from Bury , but a successful implant to central defence said yesterday : ‘ I do n't think I can carry on any longer . |
| 14 | He looked up from his desk and said , ‘ My good woman , where do you think I can put them ? ’ |
| 15 | How much cheesecake do you think I can eat ? ’ |
| 16 | I do n't think I can imagine how frightening that is . |
| 17 | How many times have you sat down at your machine and thought ‘ I do n't think I can cope with this ’ and within the next five minutes all the knitting has been on the floor ? |
| 18 | K : ‘ Um , I do n't think I can remember . ’ |
| 19 | Do you really think I can remember that ? |
| 20 | The woman said , more to herself than to him , ‘ How many things do you think I can do at once . |
| 21 | I do n't think I can be much help to you , to be honest . |
| 22 | ‘ I do think I can be concerned about the problems in America , but I think feeling guilty is useless , and maybe that compounds the arrogance . |
| 23 | What makes you think I can cook as well as get stroppy about words ? ’ |
| 24 | But — but I do n't think I can accept . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't think I can make that either but er |
| 26 | thing is I do n't think I can but er I mean I might be able to pop in for about half an hour . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think I can bear to . ’ |
| 28 | I 've made a complete fool of myself and I do n't think I can bring myself to ask what I came to . " |
| 29 | " It was n't exactly a question and now I know what you 're like I do n't think I can — " |
| 30 | " But I do n't think I can swim , Hazel . |