Example sentences of "thing i can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many girls were saying to me , ‘ I ca n't cope with having breasts , the hassle it brings , the fear of rape or the jokes and remarks from boys , the idea that I must be a slag or a ‘ goer ’ , so rather than try to deal with the whole world ( which I ca n't ) , I 'll just turn all my anger inwards against myself , against the thing I can control : my body . ’ |
| 2 | The only thing I can do now is to let out a great shout with you , ‘ Ça ira ’ for men and for people , believing that man is a world worth many times the world and that the most ardent ambitions are those which have the pride of Anonymity . |
| 3 | It 's the only thing I can do ’ . |
| 4 | You see , it is n't easy to get this kind of job without having had previous experience , and it 's the only thing I can do , because I 've no qualifications . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's the only thing I can do , ’ she snapped . |
| 6 | The best thing I can do is forget all about him , ’ she told a close friend . |
| 7 | As this is not a book on careers in advertising , the best thing I can do to give you an idea of the sort of people you might conceivably find in an agency is to refer you to the books by Norman Hart and Felicity Taylor ( see page 232 ) which describe them all very comprehensively . |
| 8 | ‘ And there 's not a thing I can do , is there ? ’ |
| 9 | Now it 's me doing the only thing I can do because I have to make some money . " |
| 10 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 11 | The only thing I can do is straightforward police work . " |
| 12 | That 's one thing I can do and he ca n't , thought Mike . |
| 13 | I owe them more than money can pay , Gina , and finding Svend and trying to talk some sense into him is just one small thing I can do . |
| 14 | And then I r I realized that the job was only gon na last a year , cos it 's only a year job , so the best thing I can do is to go all out for what I wan na do when I leave the centre . |
| 15 | The best thing I can do , with your permission , Council , is invite Inspector to talk about what we 're gon na do for er er a police section in . |
| 16 | ‘ And one thing I can do in the dark , ’ he said , ‘ behind my own back while I keep the peace . |
| 17 | Well I was saying to Alison , the only thing I can do is when I phone him |
| 18 | the only thing I can do is to get somebody who does n't know , who |
| 19 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 20 | Nibbling , that 's the worse thing I can do . |
| 21 | Well the only thing I can do |
| 22 | ‘ I think you 've lost hope , and the only thing I can tell you is that if you hang on hope will come back , and you must n't do anything until it does . ’ |
| 23 | The only thing I can tell you with certainty is that Master Meredith has n't been riding since the accident . |
| 24 | There is only one thing I can tell you of these totems . |
| 25 | Well there 's er one thing I can tell you right now that I would not personally be involved with a company that did not have erm a backing . |
| 26 | But one thing I can tell you about Port Vale , the ground has vastly changed from last season , the terracing 's been improved , their seating , it 's pure luxury apart from the press box , because I still have to climb that suspect wooden ladder , and perched on top of the main stand is a shed where I 'm speaking to you from Jane . |
| 27 | The only thing I can make is my normal , what I call a family fruit cake , which is very simple and quick i well not quick really but , I usually have it on when the Sunday roast 's doing so but erm and that 's about it , you know . |
| 28 | The only thing I can suggest is there 's a small pocket of fish causing the problem . |
| 29 | The silly thing is there is no divide on here and the only thing I can suggest really , there is a divide symbol in the computer that we can drag out but to drag it out every time it 's too boring really so I 'll think we use this I do n't like using this , but you see this symbol here , that 's what they really use for divide , so if you do that and a couple spaces , people will learn that that means divide , it 's all we can do really |
| 30 | If you say so sir , the only thing I can suggest is that fact that er that the noise the door opener was making and the fact I opened the door very shortly afterwards , he can only assume the door opener worked . |