Example sentences of "[coord] i can make " in BNC.

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1 You can come quietly — or I can make you ’
2 You can come quietly or I can make you . ’
3 The butcher lets me have a pound of dripping now and then and I can make it last .
4 You and I can make our own ways here .
5 They 've given me an elbow crutch , and I can make the journey perfectly well now , if I thought the blasted train would stay on the lines , but there 's not much I could do once I got to Moila , is there , if I ca n't walk ?
6 Indeed , he confessed that he was deeply troubled by having to pass sentence at ill : ‘ Itis with feelings of great pain that I pass sentence upon you , the defendants , and I can make great allowance for the youthful spirit which has been exhibited by you . ’
7 ‘ Elaine and I can make it , Martin .
8 ‘ We 'll take fruit as well and I can make a quiche . ’
9 ‘ Nobody taught me , but my mind tells my fingers what to do , and I can make music . ’
10 ‘ I 've seen my room and I can make my way to it if you 'll draw me a simple map ! ’
11 But at this point I ca n't decide if the evening 's cabaret will consist of , ‘ Deep down , I 'm just the same old Lil you knew before , so how about it ? ’ or ‘ I 'm a star now , baby , and I can make or break you , so let's do it my way . ’
12 The numbers that I have given publicly hitherto are the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I can make — about 175 at the end of the transitional period .
13 I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution .
14 You only need to drop me in town , and I can make my own way from there ! ’
15 I mean I can move it and I can make i but I , I do n't
16 I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles .
17 But I can make seventy strings sound pianissimo .
18 All right , so I did , muttered Sam , but I can make mine come true if I work hard .
19 I ca n't arrest them without proof , but I can make it damn hard for them to live here . ’
20 ‘ I know , I 'm only a woman but I can make and mend just as well as any man , if not better . ’
21 And also I think , which is very strong and I think it does come out in , in the Chinese Communist Party , is the lust of power which can be even more dangerous when you convince yourself I 'll do all you lot good but I can make you all members of the Communist Party , whether you want to be or not does n't really matter , you know , it 's gon na be for the good of the country so you fall in with this trap of assuming that you want is for their good so it 's sort of a , a dangerous thing .
22 ‘ I know I ca n't , but I can make inspired guesses . ’
23 I do n't as yet sell many of my paintings , but I can make a sort of living by using my knowledge of furniture and china .
24 I may be a few minutes late , but I can make it . ’
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