Example sentences of "i can [adv] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet it also seems that er I , I can also make this statement . |
| 2 | Someone upstairs is playing a record — I can just make out the thumping of the drum . |
| 3 | Mind you , I still think that now on the way back from a long hill-walk when I can just make out a dot that is the car . |
| 4 | I can just make out the Ridgery in the distance . |
| 5 | I can just make out |
| 6 | I have heard reports that it can be glimpsed in binoculars , but even with my × 20 I have been unable to find it — though it is clear enough in a 15-cm reflecting telescope , and I can just make it out with my 7.6-cm refractor . |
| 7 | The photograph is not very sharp , but the shape of the window behind her is recognizable at once , and in the over-exposed whiteness beyond the glass I can just make out the roof of the Scottish Office and the aerials on top of the Admiralty . |
| 8 | If I can just make er Paul , Partnership . |
| 9 | I can not make out . ’ |
| 10 | I try to explain to the two silver boots [ now accompanied by the projectionist , drinking tea ] what is wrong but I can not make myself heard even out here . |
| 11 | I can not make generalisations without a far more detailed study of hospitals . |
| 12 | I can not make such a promise . |
| 13 | I can not make my players sing any anthem in their rooms , nor can I stop them . ’ |
| 14 | The Bishop , reading Peter 's thoughts , would have liked to have put his arms around him , would have liked to have said , I can not make you Archdeacon because you have insufficient judgement and experience , but you are a good priest , a conscientious priest , and I am wretched to disappoint you . |
| 15 | ‘ I can not make it too abundantly clear that , under no circumstances whatsoever , will I support Mr Baldwin unless I know exactly what his policy is going to be , unless I have complete guarantees that such policy will be carried out if his party achieves office , and unless I am acquainted with the names of at least eight or ten of his most prominent colleagues in the next Ministry . |
| 16 | If , on the other hand , I abandon my claim to have known yesterday , I can not make the claim to know today . |
| 17 | Tell him that I am very sorry but I can not make exceptions . |
| 18 | But not too old that I can not make sure that you never forget . |
| 19 | Ann Windiate , director of social services , conceded : ‘ I can not make guarantees on job security . ’ |
| 20 | I can not make myself write down the things that Jekyll , with tears in his eyes , confessed to me that night . |
| 21 | I can not make sense of that rhyme . |
| 22 | I can not make myself … and who would want such a … thing … ? ’ |
| 23 | I narrow my eyes to stare into his ; the light of the pub is dim as dust and I can not make out the pinpoints . |
| 24 | I can not make any such commitment at this stage . |
| 25 | Charles 's following ( populus ) then swore " in its own language , the lingua romana " : " If Louis keeps the oath which he swears to his brother Charles , and my lord Charles for his part does not keep his , if I can not make him refrain [ from that action ] , then neither I nor any other whom I can make refrain will give him any aid against Louis " . |
| 26 | If I can not make the time myself it might still be worth paying Dessie Clancy and his lad . ’ |
| 27 | A similar effect of , on the one hand , challenging the reader to take up an alert and interpretative role , and , on the other , gratuitously creating an amorphous but strong atmosphere peculiar to the fabliau through the text , is achieved by extensive use of the homonyms vit and con , and com-/con- as a common suffix in the Romance languages : ( I can not make a long tale : in this castle there was a count and with him the countess , his wife , who was a very beautiful and worthy woman ; and there were [ or she had ] more than thirty knights . |
| 28 | And the other one is , now this is something I heard on erm , Radio F M yesterday , where apparently Richard Strauss was challenged about the complexity of r of a piece of work , and er , he responding by saying , the devil I can not make it simpler . |
| 29 | I enjoyed reading your material , but after consideration I 'm afraid to say that I can not make use of short stories . |
| 30 | I can not make the connection between Mowbray 's fall and these fragments of evidence . ’ |