Example sentences of "[pron] can [verb] [pron] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can tell you 're a serious person |
| 2 | This I can tell you is a great relief . |
| 3 | The fact is that every other gentleman there I can tell it 's a hairpiece , yours I could n't . |
| 4 | ‘ The best I can offer you is a head start , get out of here and do n't ever come back . ’ |
| 5 | Well , Mrs Davis , I ca n't promise you a rise ( and I certainly would n't be bold enough to ask you for a hug ! ) but what I can offer you is the chance to choose between a substantial pay-rise … £1,500 a year … and a cheque for the generous sum of £15,000 . |
| 6 | I can imagine her being a little bitch . |
| 7 | I can imagine her being a bit er well not , not bossy like |
| 8 | Er I can imagine them being a bit like know all if they are |
| 9 | Oh I can imagine it being a bit strained off and on with er two lots of parents or do they know each other well and everything ? |
| 10 | I can imagine it being a sixteen cos you know there was a lot of it and then it was just . |
| 11 | As far as I can recall there were no unfortunate incidents involving animals in Baldersdale . |
| 12 | Erm , they were not interviewed , they if they were accepted by a teacher training college they received erm a maximum of , of fifty pounds a year but erm as far as I can remember there was no loan erm element in that but I m I may be wrong because er but I never can remember erm writing to recover loans from the training college student . |
| 13 | fifties , all I can remember there was an all very stolid erm , people did n't know where they were yet , and erm , it er |
| 14 | Said : ‘ It 's the first time I can remember there being a vote in favour of nuclear power . |
| 15 | So I can write it 's a lower full range of movement , mobilize . |
| 16 | ‘ I think I can say I 'm a tolerant man , ’ he said , not without a trace of smugness . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't always ignore what they say but I can say it 's a lot of crap . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But I can say it 's a lot of crap ! ’ |
| 19 | So nowadays I can say it was a German bomb of five hundred kilograms and it was dropped by a crippled He . |
| 20 | But I can see he 's the worse for wear , the weathering the worker wreaks on himself . |
| 21 | ‘ I can see you 're a very obstinate woman , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I can see you 're a draughtsman , you 've a fairish sense of colour and what-not , sensitive . |
| 23 | She gives me time to read the label on the front cover Government Commission Press Department , 1974 — then opens it and slowly turns the pages , so that I can see it is a cuttings book , in which the Commission 's Press Officer has pasted the results of his labours , the stories inspired by all his briefings , handouts and leaks . |
| 24 | True , the attraction of becoming ‘ British ’ is a big one , but as far as I can see it is the only one . |
| 25 | After a long few seconds Karelius said , ‘ I can see it 's no use trying to convince you of the way I feel . |
| 26 | ‘ Why , yes , I can see it 's a tunnel , ’ agreed Anabelle . |
| 27 | So I think i it 'd be , I can see it being a big pitfall if we got into too much of a discussion in relation to this , about management time |
| 28 | If you can get your book out in reasonable time I can see it being a real winner , and position-wise it wo n't do you any harm , that 's for sure . |
| 29 | So they 'll have an hallucination of eating the cake and say yummy is n't this cake lovely , and you and I can see there 's no cake there . |
| 30 | I can see there 's no point in arguing with you . |