Example sentences of "i can [verb] [adv prt] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I can stand up to McEnroe I can stand up to anyone . ’ |
| 2 | Vice-Chancellors with a high-powered escort including the Director-Gen. of the British Council are arriving here an hour or so before we leave ( i.e. c. 40 mins from now ) so I am frantically typing a brief letter of a confidential kind that I can hand over to them . |
| 3 | ‘ If I can move back to my place , they 'll let me have her back . ’ |
| 4 | I can think back to my very earliest days in Britain . |
| 5 | huh , what , I 'm sulking yes so I can hang around to whoever I want to hang around with |
| 6 | Well , I 've a ward round to get through before I can come over to your unit , George , so I 'd better get moving . |
| 7 | I 'd love someone like you to come around so I can come up to you and say this close is , er hello Geoff ! |
| 8 | erm if people are restored to confidence , feel that they are able to travel , that of course reduces the number of people who are going to stay in this country and have their holidays here , and Stan , if I can come back to you , I mean we it is almost arguing against the point that you were making a few moments ago that , you know , you want people to stay in this country . |
| 9 | okay , so Rupert , if I can come back to you , I mean do you think then that we 're doing enough to , to make these improvements ? |
| 10 | I 'd like to get this out the way really cos then I can get on to something else . |
| 11 | I can get on to them and ask . ’ |
| 12 | At ; six detour chapters , and I can get back to my chicks . |
| 13 | Now I can get back to my story . ’ |
| 14 | Shortly before Christmas and in the middle of correcting the proofs , he wrote to Rohde again : " The whole last part , which you do not know , will certainly astonish you ; I have been very daring , and I can cry out to myself in an altogether enormous sense , animam salvavi [ I have saved my soul ] ; for which reason I think of the book with great satisfaction and am not worried for it turns out to cause the greatest possible offence and in some quarters a " cry of outrage " greets its publication . |
| 15 | I hope I can live up to it . ’ |