Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] can [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well what do you know the guy that sings What Becomes of a Broken Heart I mean nobody can find him . |
| 2 | So they have they have in fact embarked on a course which now lets these newspapers really deliver them up on a plate I mean they can fry them , they can bake them , they can grill them , they can roast them because they 've put themselves in a position where they now deserve the criticism and the level of imagery which they 're getting . |
| 3 | I mean they can afford it between them . |
| 4 | so , so I mean we can review it as it goes |
| 5 | You 'll cope with it but you 've got ta buy , your moonboots we should be able to get the market Jill said around , I mean we can get them in cash and carry for nine ninety nine but we should be able to get them at Blackbushe market for five to six ninety nine . |
| 6 | I mean I can give it to you to take it in tomorrow morning |
| 7 | I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused . |
| 8 | I , I mean I can tell you the names of the of all , everybody in them days , round the fleck area like , you know . |
| 9 | I mean I can tell you that there 's water in the pipe if you 're thirsty , but you need to go to the pipe with a glass and turn the tap on in order to er not to be thirsty any more , in order to receive the water . |
| 10 | I mean I can tell you . |
| 11 | Well I mean I can assure them that the , the National Rivers Authority in the Thames region is monitoring rivers on a daily basis throughout the year and that we would hope to deal with pollution incidents as they occur , and we would hope with our monitoring and the pressure we put on third parties to er actually over the years , to improve things from what they are at the moment and to make things better . |
| 12 | well no , I mean I can conceive it quite well |
| 13 | I mean I can move it and I can make i but I , I do n't |
| 14 | yeah , well I mean I can cook you a , a meal on it , but if you ca n't , you ca n't can ya ? |
| 15 | I mean I can help you a certain , a certain amount , |
| 16 | I take I mean I can take them but I 'm not too fond of taking tablets |
| 17 | Mm but I , I mean I can use it as it is now but anything else on to it I would find it difficult . |
| 18 | I mean I can understand it in this day and age , people trying |
| 19 | in some ways to though , I mean I can understand I think people , some people |
| 20 | Yes , I mean you can alter it around . |
| 21 | Seems to me a very reasonable conclusion , I mean you can redress it up in Freudian terms and say their conscious did it , which is really very similar thing to say , I mean the unconscious becomes a sort of god in that case . |
| 22 | But you see there 's a lot , there 's so many different ways of making sangria , I mean you can make it real rough like just cheap wine , what it should be , cheap wine , sugar and , and fruit , I do n't when I make it I put rum or whisky liqueurs |
| 23 | Yeah I mean you can guess it from the clue without having to fill in the crossword . |
| 24 | I mean you can re-dress it up in Freudian terms and say their unconscious did it , which is really a very similar thing to say . |
| 25 | well they 're alright , but I mean you can tell they take the grease out of the kitchen , but , they 're a bit of a bind are n't they ? of all the cleaning and I mean I do n't see why the people who make them do n't sell the blimming proper filter to filter themselves instead we do n't have |
| 26 | Even from er the quality of the brochure I mean you can see you know I mean that 's quite high level |
| 27 | ‘ I mean you can follow me . ’ |
| 28 | okay , there 's all sorts of them , I mean you can have it the wrong nought , |
| 29 | Which would cost you but then th you see a if you just get a plain ordinary phone they 're not erm they 're not that expensive , I mean you can get them for ten pound ! |
| 30 | No , it just rings engaged , I mean you can try it , you can try and get through , but it wo n't work . |