Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] i can [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm pleased with the commercials I 've made , but I consider my photographs to be the medium through which I can express myself , ’ he says . |
| 2 | an Amstrad , f for which I can give you my letterhead and formatting and you can then write letters for me . |
| 3 | I mean normally I do n't bother with the tokens , I mean I Anyway I paid the cheque and I said to Peter I said oh by the way what about me tokens for me for me toy I said if I get a free one of them I can give it to give it to the grandchildren . |
| 4 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
| 5 | But ca n't you think of anything I can give you ? ’ |
| 6 | It is a terrible , solitary kind of life , whereby I can not for instance have people with whom I can discuss my writing , unless I leave the country and meet people like Bessie Head , who died , or Buchi Emecheta and Ama Ata Aidoo . |
| 7 | But this talk about ‘ a frontier which is perceived from both sides ’ makes it sound as if in addition to the physical eye which I can use to get at the pin there is a sort of phantom eye in my skull with which I can see what goes on under my skin . |
| 8 | Why should I , or anyone , be expected to perform tasks which mean nothing to me , and into which I can put nothing of myself ? |
| 9 | Unfortunately the only way in which I can fulfil my interest is to work . |
| 10 | As I said at the beginning of this essay , the only way in which I can fulfil my interest is to work : — and so I do . |
| 11 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 12 | But now I 'm more together , I 've a whole lot of other areas in which I can express my feelings , I just hope the songs wo n't lose anything . |
| 13 | There is no way in which I can match my hon. Friend 's colourful eloquence . |
| 14 | ‘ Her name 's Louise , ’ Christina volunteered , ‘ and from what I can gather she 's madly in love with him . ’ |
| 15 | From what I can gather he was as mad as a hatter , and really no good at all . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , from what I can gather he makes up fantasies … ’ |
| 17 | From what I can recall he just said he was concerned for the safety of the occupiers . |
| 18 | From what I can see I do n't think Lottie wants a nice man . |
| 19 | From what I can see I 'd stay over the water for almost the whole trip . |
| 20 | That came as a great surprise to me I can tell you . |
| 21 | As the girl dances close to me I can smell her perfume and all that has gone before is completely forgotten ; the slit trenches , the mosquitoes , the wounded and my dead comrades . |
| 22 | So I thought well I 'll carry one of these for when I 'm going out in my car to which , you know , and if somebody does come up to me I can use it in a positive manner while in a split second time for me , hopefully beca , cos of my range of work |
| 23 | That is a good point on which I can give my hon. Friend not only a specific example , but an assurance . |
| 24 | Well if you 're all the way over there and I 'm talking to you I can hear my voice more . |
| 25 | But today 's date even that does n't apply because you you 're category 's above the level at which I can give you advice . |
| 26 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 27 | The only trouble is that it lies quite close to a footbridge and as soon as anyone walks across it I can guarantee I will not get a bite for at least an hour afterwards . |
| 28 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 29 | By what I can gather they must have lived in Durham for a time , 'cos when she was saying her prayers she brought in a Mrs Melburn , a parson 's wife , who was kind to them after the father died or whatever , an' from what I made out of her jabbering the woman and the mother have written to each other . |