Example sentences of "that i can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I can remember . |
| 2 | It must be a measure of my confidence , he wrote , that I can now say , in these notes , without any kind of trepidation , that this is the major project of my life , that beside it the rest pales into insignificance , if it was not insignificant anyway , beside it or anything else . |
| 3 | That I can do most of my work in my suit without getting dirty . |
| 4 | Except that I can not work like that . |
| 5 | The fact that I can write this is little consolation , he wrote . |
| 6 | That I can talk about it ? |
| 7 | ‘ Anything that I can tell you , Inspector , I will , but my acquaintanceship with Mrs Iverson in the event was brief . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not sure that I can at the moment , ’ I said apologetically . |
| 9 | In a case like this it is often a matter of assessing quickly ‘ Am I sure that I can reach the field , or if I get more sink will I fail to get there ? ’ |
| 10 | First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person . |
| 11 | With limited space , it is unavoidable that I can provide only a summary of the work of a very active Association , but I thought your readers would be interested to know that schools are not being neglected . |
| 12 | As an academic critic and university teacher specializing in modern literature and literary theory , I spend much or my time these days reading books and articles that I can barely understand and that cause my wife ( a graduate with a good honours degree in English language and literature ) to utter loud cries of pain and nausea if her eye happens to fall on them . |
| 13 | There are realities that I can not change . |
| 14 | I get into a No Smoking carriage and , since the station interior is rather dark , switch on a light so that I can read Berlioz . |
| 15 | I know that I can see objectives and drive after them . |
| 16 | It is , therefore with considerable pleasure that I can report that the Association was able during 1990 to contribute directly more than £250,000 to the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal , and was able to see the income generated by its own Wings Appeal increase by 47% . |
| 17 | The first one , the first time in fact that I can remember going to the pictures , was being taken to the cinema in Lewisham by my mother to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs just before the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 18 | The first , and only , film that I can remember seeing there was Sergeant York , the dialogue of which was very loudly interpreted by the more bilingual of the French-Canadians for their monoglot mates , much to the annoyance of the anglophones . |
| 19 | I recreate the absent proprietor ’ , he says in The Thief 's Journal ( p. 129 ) ; and in a 1975 interview : ‘ I would like the world , and pay attention to the way I 'm saying it , I would like the world not to change so that I can be against the world ’ ( Gay Sunshine Interviews , 79 ) . |
| 20 | In retirement I hope my company will provide me with an office and a secretary , so that I can go on contributing to society from my experience . |
| 21 | I make hot chocolate so that I can sleep more easily and as I sip it I am suddenly overcome with weariness . |
| 22 | Next morning over breakfast I decide to go back into Þingeyri to catch a plane back to Ísafjöđ3ur in the hope that I can get a boat or bus from there . |
| 23 | I leap outside into the snow , stand ankle deep in the snow and strain frantically at the same time trying to remember which direction I am pointing so that I can give instructions about where not to get the snow for tomorrow 's tea . |
| 24 | The bank manager says that I can not have it until the will 's executor , my stepfather , agrees . |
| 25 | ‘ Not that I can recall , sir . |
| 26 | We usually go in daily , so that I can check that he 's doing his job right . |
| 27 | I think that I can say it was . ’ |
| 28 | A third says : ‘ I love to read a few words of the Gospel , so that I can see Christ and listen to what He is saying to me . ’ |
| 29 | A policeman , already working overtime , said calmly : ‘ I hope there 'll be no trouble tonight so that I can go home early . |
| 30 | There is no immediate prospect that I can ever have her back , but I would like to keep the door open for that . |