Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I am sightless but I can sense my environs and weary utterly of them . |
| 2 | A towel that I 've put over the radiator to get warm so I can wrap it cosily round myself and hug myself dry . |
| 3 | I shall stay alive until I can catch him . |
| 4 | She 's fabulous-looking and I can trust her . |
| 5 | it 'll get mainly dry and I can finish them off in here ca n't I ? |
| 6 | And she said so many chairs are so deep that my legs are dangling , she said whereas this one , it 's so comfortable and I can get my feet on the floor . |
| 7 | ‘ He proved today that he is very fast but I can tell him that tomorrow is not going to be so easy , ’ said Fittipaldi , who clocked 101.472mph . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | and er that may sound er a bit exaggerated but I can assure you that 's what happened , that er , to go to , to be able to file these , these little scraps of paper they had to stick it on another sheet |
| 10 | I have never been confident that I can split them with the naked eye , but 7 × 50 binoculars make it easy enough . |
| 11 | I always find it a difficult binocular object ; I can just see it with × 20 , but I am not confident that I can identify it with a lower magnification . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not sure if I can do it , ’ he was muttering , his features hardened by some complex emotion . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's great because I can ride it to the beach and people do n't recognise me beneath the helmet . |
| 15 | And that 's as good as I can make it , Kirsty . |
| 16 | In all these cases the answer would be , " As good as I can get it . " |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got a bead on him , and as long as I can hold it I 'll have him when he moves . |
| 20 | As long as I can remember we 've been up here |
| 21 | I 'm not bothered either way as long as I can read it . |
| 22 | Er I , I know what , as long as I can see what you 've done . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Damned if I can get my tongue round it . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Our situation is not very happy but I can tolerate it . |
| 27 | I 'll do my make-up first , something fairly neutral so I can choose what to wear later . |
| 28 | Well , you ca n't tell that I 'm Irish but I can tell you 're Irish . |
| 29 | Finally taking a look at the traffic on Nottingham 's roads as far as I can tell it 's all moving fairly steadily . |
| 30 | But as far as I can see we are more or less covered . |