Example sentences of "and i can " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Emily and me can take care of the shop ; you have a rest while you can — you look quite washed out . |
| 2 | My current owner , it said , is in need of succour and assistance ; why not give it to him , so you and me can go off somewhere and enjoy ourselves ? |
| 3 | That man and me can never meet , not on any terms . ’ |
| 4 | But , yes — I read plays and I can see actors in the parts — I hope I can see what is suitable to their personalities . |
| 5 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 6 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 7 | And I can tell you why . |
| 8 | I know about this bit from a telephone call from John — and I can still remember the click as the line went dead at the end of that conversation . |
| 9 | You can tell me how you got on today and I can start making some enquiries . ’ |
| 10 | Conversely I discovered that it could cut with the disc flat , or at a slight angle , and I can see it having benefits for very fine work . |
| 11 | Well , three nuts spat me out and I can honestly say that the first time I fell , headfirst , facing outwards , above the wall we had just climbed , I really did see stars . |
| 12 | Presumably this was important to him ( it always was to me and I can fully understand this ) for he wrote the route up in the new routes books asking how others would feel if he subsequently went back and placed a single bolt runner to protect the route . |
| 13 | Graham Sutherland , opposite a whole page of contacts , enthuses in a 1946 letter : ‘ Your photographs are wonderfully good ; easily the best we have ever had taken , and I can see how important was the time and care which you took over the composition and lighting and the idea … |
| 14 | I 've no idea whether Europe is going to work , no one has , and I can think of huge historical reasons why it wo n't . |
| 15 | And I can go fishing to my heart 's content . |
| 16 | I 've been involved in community projects and I can say I enjoy going into schools , but at the end of the day there will always need to be the regulated type of policing of crime and violence . |
| 17 | I feel my heart pounding as I think of her , and I can not push from my mind a strong feeling that something has happened to her . |
| 18 | Unable to stop paddling for fear of capsizing , Tony and I can not put on our anoraks and within a few minutes we are soaked by the freezing combination of sea and rain . |
| 19 | My glasses are creased by running water and I can no longer see past the end of the boat . |
| 20 | If we can go ashore we can have coffee and Tony and I can put on our anoraks . |
| 21 | On the basis of her understanding , it appears that any artist in the USA who uses the conventions of the mass media in such a way as to produce a critique of the media ( and I can think of a good many ) is veritably a ‘ quasi-situationist ’ . |
| 22 | It 's dark , but I know it 's Marie cos she 's got her jangly boots on and I can hear them . |
| 23 | The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me . |
| 24 | There 's a small black and white set , and I can see two people on it , with one of them waving a hand . |
| 25 | A door slams along the corridor and I can hear music coming from upstairs . |
| 26 | She 's standing with her back to the window and I can see a sort of thin blue light round her body . |
| 27 | Marie turns to look at me , and I can just see the light shining off her eyes . |
| 28 | I reckon I 've waited long enough , and I can go back home now . |
| 29 | Maybe if I walk long enough I 'll get to Scotland and I can see Marie . |
| 30 | I 'm pretty warm so I do n't need a blanket or nothing and I can just bunch up the pavement into a pillow if I need one . |