Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I can scarcely get a comb through it in the morning . |
| 2 | Now this does n't alter for one moment my recommendation of this as a superb performance , but I can well imagine a non-violinist , with less understanding of the extraordinary soloistic skill involved , homing in on and lambasting the accompaniment , giving only an average rating as a result . |
| 3 | like a dog , it 's been a hard day 's night boom boom boom boom sleeping hope they do n't come too early , although then we 'll , I can just leave a note . |
| 4 | But if I can just quote a couple of cases . |
| 5 | I , I can just see a touch of the black . |
| 6 | I can just catch a flight if I rush . |
| 7 | So if I can just put a tick there |
| 8 | On one occasion I can even recall a bitch stoat emerging while carrying one of her brood . |
| 9 | I can even fly a stretcher case . ’ |
| 10 | I can easily get a lift back to my house . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Come on , I can probably use a walk anyway . |
| 12 | Instead I have to start by describing something of the unease I feel about its use and study within the literature , and gradually move toward a position from which I can either offer a definition of labourism or construct boundaries within which it exists and operates . |
| 13 | Whenever I put food out around a sett prior to an evening watch , I can usually hear a badger munching a peanut or two for some time before the first animal comes into view . |
| 14 | ‘ I came here to do a job of work , and since that quite clearly is no longer possible — I can hardly tutor a pupil who is n't even here ! — I can see not the slightest reason to stay . |
| 15 | ‘ I can hardly hear a thing . ’ |
| 16 | I feel I can hardly write a sequel to A Brief History of Time . |
| 17 | I can hardly ride a horse and the call of arms does not appeal to me . ’ |
| 18 | I can then produce a programme that provides a framework to meet your future financial plans using Allied Dunbar products . |
| 19 | They did n't say , as the teds did , I can only wear a drape They 'd mix it a bit , getting into biker stuff and cap-sleeved T-shirts . |
| 20 | As a physician of Italian origin , I can only express a sense of surprise and shame which , I hope , is shared by the whole Italian biomedical community . |
| 21 | I 'm very shy and I can only take a lot of people in small doses . |
| 22 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 23 | Not being a builder , nor an architect , I can only hazard a guess . |
| 24 | I can only hazard a guess at what it must have been like to sail in a typical convoy , with bombers and submarines liable to strike at any moment , or to brave the Western Approaches with only a couple of inches of rusting metal between yourself and the enemy . |
| 25 | I can only see a daddy and a little girl on a roundabout . |
| 26 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 27 | It does n't look very good , having erm , first and the second name without a space between the two , but I can actually put a space there if we entered a formula , by putting a double quote space , another double quote , and then another ampersand , filling the spaces of D six . |
| 28 | Like going to sleep by contrasting a bed with a pavement , I sometimes find myself thinking that if the worst comes to the worst I can always earn a living by my hands ; I can scrub , clean , cook and sew ; all you have in the end is your labour . |
| 29 | If things get too complicated , he told himself , not for the first time in the last few months , I can always make a run for it . |
| 30 | I can still make a flight back to Blighty which will connect with the last plane to Inverness . |