Example sentences of "[subord] i can [verb] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I keep the snapshot you sent me by my bed , but although I can see it is you , you look different — so much older . |
| 2 | Can someone give me a list of these nicknames so I can know who is being discussed . |
| 3 | I mean in so I I come here today with a petition that I presented that also talks about proposing to abolish the merger , I mean this is a move just one step away from that but I still feel in what was proposed at the last full council meeting and I would express my views to the officers that in light of what has been suggested today is actually implemented to the wording as it stands because the joint working party that had been er written up previously never did meet although if I can inform it was only the officers who actually met up and I hope that in light of all the working group and the two heads of centres covering for each other would be implicitly applied . |
| 4 | If I can say he 's smug because I 'm his sister , I can also say he 's a man of very high principles . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Because I can sense you 're feeling doubtful about me , ’ she admitted bluntly . |
| 6 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 7 | But when I can see he 's not looking , I do so . |
| 8 | As far as I can tell there were cells in London , Edinburgh and Oxford as well as here in Dublin . ’ |
| 9 | Finally taking a look at the traffic on Nottingham 's roads as far as I can tell it 's all moving fairly steadily . |
| 10 | But as far as I can see we are more or less covered . |
| 11 | ‘ I treat you like a child because as far as I can see you are one . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ So far as I can see it 's practically certain Mr Merrivale was in there with her early on in the night , ’ said Ethel . |
| 13 | Actually so far as I can see it 's sod 's law for women , just as it always has been . |
| 14 | True , the attraction of becoming ‘ British ’ is a big one , but as far as I can see it is the only one . |
| 15 | ‘ As far as I can see there 's only one reason why anyone gets promoted , ’ said Richards , ‘ and that 's survival . |
| 16 | ‘ As far as I can see there is no evidence that when [ he ] has absconded he has come to any real harm . |
| 17 | ‘ As far as I can see there is only one house that is easier to get at that way than by going through the town , and that is the house on stilts . ’ |
| 18 | As far as I can understand she 's made only one friend ; but that would be enough if it 's a good 'un . |
| 19 | As far as I can recall it was further away from the wall , there was a space for somebody to walk between the wall and the bed , it 's not as shown in that photograph . |
| 20 | As far as I can recall there were no unfortunate incidents involving animals in Baldersdale . |
| 21 | I think as far back as I can remember I was organising a group and telling people what to do . " |
| 22 | I was n't too bad with them as far as I can remember I was fairly okay . |
| 23 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |
| 24 | Erm , they were not interviewed , they if they were accepted by a teacher training college they received erm a maximum of , of fifty pounds a year but erm as far as I can remember there was no loan erm element in that but I m I may be wrong because er but I never can remember erm writing to recover loans from the training college student . |
| 25 | Even though I can say they are eager to do it , a lot of people in authority do n't feel confident enough to sign a cheque . |