Example sentences of "[coord] i can [adv] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 because otherwise you or I can only take your best estimate .
2 An me can not feel me botty
3 And I can nae let it interfere with my golf , can I ?
4 She replied , ‘ Oh no , I was never allowed to cry and I can not relieve myself ’ .
5 Indeed John is so enthusiastic that one can not be with him without catching some of his zeal in the cause , and I can not regret our coming , though looking anxiously forward to our return .
6 I d I know that , there 's that phrase you know , we will never see his like again , I think we probably will , but it will be a very long time , and I can not tell you the infinite feeling of sadness erm , that I felt when I heard of his passing .
7 Your honour knows you went too far for a master to a servant or even to his equal and I can not bear it .
8 My subject is the dear old Quaker town of my birth , Darlington , and I can not accept its continued defilement .
9 Throwing yourself at men , men of gross natures , is a still-greater act of self-abuse , and I can not warn you too strongly that you are placing yourself in the very gravest danger .
10 Besides , the girl has done nothing wrong , and I can not allow her to be treated this way . ’
11 I saw you last night , though you chose not to see me , and I can not understand your casual attitude to life .
12 And I can not take you with me . ’
13 I love the club and I can not see myself playing for anyone else . ’
14 That centre for one of the staff who work there , make quite profound impact on the quality of life for many people living on our estates and I can not see anything more short sighted than denying access to the sorts of services and the sorts of pleasures that people can get from use of a community centre like that by cutting back on staffing so that we ca n't actually use the capital resources that we 've b the capital that we 've invested in facilities like that .
15 ‘ The heroin was in my possession and I can not prove it was n't mine , ’ said 26-year-old Peter Heather after the hearing in Bangkok .
16 I have been able to get on with ‘ getting better ’ simply because my colleagues have taken responsibility for my work load ever since the Executive Committee Meeting in July , and I can not thank them enough for all that they have done .
17 er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times
18 Again , I respect my hon. Friend 's strongly held personal views , but Parliament has expressed its views and I can not add anything to the answer that I gave to the two previous questions .
19 Trouble was I could never run very quickly , and I can not imagine what I would have done if I had been chased by the bull .
20 The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see
21 Yet , equally , right close up in front of the cab the sound is muffled and I can not hear myself accurately .
22 And I can also remember him standing in the hall with my mum and her saying , ‘ I am going out ! ’ and him , for some reason I will never understand , bursting into tears .
23 I said I get a lot of enquiries from frustrated knitters on this point and I can well understand their frustration .
24 You have that choice , that chance to do that for my patients and I tell you , to be with you , to be part of you , I 'm as a , I learn for you , I think of you , and I can just tell you , I wish you all the best , but I wo n't forget your responsibility to help the medical profession to make , with the work they do for a better tomorrow possible , due to your work , your hard attempts to give that financial ability through the best insurance policies on the market today .
25 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 .
26 And I can just remember what John Major said about the local authorities who 'd er got into B C C I .
27 Little and Crosby stood next to each other after the game and the Leicester boss said : ‘ I 've been embarrassed by the speculation but Malcolm and I can probably handle it better than anyone .
28 Alright , so , come and see me as soon as the problems start to emerge , and I can probably tell you that you 're , you 're wasting time and energy worrying about it , so
29 Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time .
30 He added : ‘ I walked along that roadway myself only two weeks ago and I can honestly say it was one of the best I have ever seen .
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