Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] i can [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , it right , erm , nought point five three , you 're obviously going to do these quicker than I can write them down , so you can write them down . |
| 2 | So these are all factors in here which er the the Well first of all the general public was provided with a a synopsis of this if I can put it that way in that the en original consultation leaflet included er extracts from this , summaries of it er in the leaflet , er and that set out clearly the differing traffic effects of the outer northern relief road compared with the inner . |
| 3 | A towel that I 've put over the radiator to get warm so I can wrap it cosily round myself and hug myself dry . |
| 4 | I mean he does n't want for nothing , he gets as much as I can give him . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's my main home as much as I can make it so . |
| 6 | ‘ It means as much as I can make it mean . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm going to have a rest now , Fru Møller , and I 'll be down as near to six as I can make it . ’ |
| 8 | I shall stay alive until I can catch him . |
| 9 | My work this year is very much on the ground — there will be only two abstract things — or three at the most — all the rest is objective — as objective as I can make it … |
| 10 | Thorfinn said , ‘ It deserves better than I can give it . |
| 11 | Well they 're selling them cheaper than I can supply my customers . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not sure if I can do it , ’ he was muttering , his features hardened by some complex emotion . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's great because I can ride it to the beach and people do n't recognise me beneath the helmet . |
| 14 | And that 's as good as I can make it , Kirsty . |
| 15 | In all these cases the answer would be , " As good as I can get it . " |
| 16 | But my mum 's pretty good you know what I mean she as long as I can arrange it round her she 'll arrange her arrangements around me sort of thing . |
| 17 | For twenty years his widowed mother had kept a small shop in a St Helens slum , only accepting an occasional small amount of money and putting off other help with ‘ the same naive reply : ‘ It 's very good of you , dear lad , and I appreciate it , but as long as I can manage it , I shall prefer to have my feet under my own fender . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've got a bead on him , and as long as I can hold it I 'll have him when he moves . |
| 19 | As long as I can remember we 've been up here |
| 20 | I 'm not bothered either way as long as I can read it . |
| 21 | Er I , I know what , as long as I can see what you 've done . |
| 22 | Whether they are in a particular building in one place or another , actually I could n't give a monkey 's as a parent , and I do n't care where the school is as long as I can get my kids there and they get a good deal . |
| 23 | Damned if I can get my tongue round it . |
| 24 | It 's not really desperately important cos I can do it by using a list rather than a map but it 's just somehow easier to refer |
| 25 | I 'll do my make-up first , something fairly neutral so I can choose what to wear later . |
| 26 | I 'll be there as soon after five as I can make it . ’ |
| 27 | Finally taking a look at the traffic on Nottingham 's roads as far as I can tell it 's all moving fairly steadily . |
| 28 | But as far as I can see we are more or less covered . |
| 29 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 30 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |