Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.

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1 John Selwyn Gummer , Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food There is no point in producing a list of microwave ovens without giving the detailed instructions so that those using them can improve their performance .
2 So would you like to just read what you 've written there so that , because I do n't think everyone can see , and I think this is
3 These are often a combination of personal and peer-group interests ; and pursuing them can lead to the development of a wide range of knowledge and skills .
4 And there 's three girls in this netball and do you think I can think their names of us ?
5 I 've made a complete fool of myself and I do n't think I can bring myself to ask what I came to . "
6 I do n't think I can make that either but er
7 Well I do n't think I can feel like I suppose that were Victoria was n't it , ringing nine nine nine they forgot to ask
8 ‘ I do n't think I can talk any more about your husband .
9 ‘ I do n't think I can stand young people . ’
10 I do n't think I can stand much more .
11 ‘ I do n't think I can stand it any more .
12 I c I do n't I do n't think I can tell you the lot it 's
13 ‘ I do n't think I can tell when you 're acting .
14 ‘ I do n't really think I can tell you — it 's so private , you see .
15 Another asked for the name of a good travel agent , while a third declared : ‘ I do not think I can bear another five years of Andrew Lloyd Webber ; I 'm off . ’
16 ‘ I do n't think I can bear to . ’
17 ‘ I do n't think I can bear it , Dorothy , ’ she said in a choked voice .
18 Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way .
19 I do not think I can bear this , thought Grainne , but even as the thought was framed , she knew that for someone it had had to be borne , there had been no escaping it , this bottomless dark pit , this vast endless night sea …
20 ‘ It 's a long story and I do n't think I can bear to tell it again just now . ’
21 Then she breathes out and gives a real smile — one of those big things that brightens her face like a starburst — and I see she 's been frightened , and I sigh , and suddenly I 've got a lump in my throat and I 'm trembling and I do n't think I can move away from this wall .
22 I 've hurt my back too — I do n't think I can move . ’
23 ‘ I just do n't think I can sit out there and watch it all .
24 " But I do n't think I can swim , Hazel .
25 ‘ Do you think I can watch another woman become your bride ?
26 I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast .
27 How many times have you sat down at your machine and thought ‘ I do n't think I can cope with this ’ and within the next five minutes all the knitting has been on the floor ?
28 it , I did n't and I felt I 'd have no friends around where I lived and you know , I 'd always be alienated , I 'd always be home later and I said to my mum I do n't think I can cope with it , so she said right then you do n't go !
29 ‘ I do n't think I can face that . ’
30 ‘ Yes , she still writes to me , ’ Harry answered Cora-Beth 's question , ‘ but the way I feel about you is different and I do n't think I can explain .
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