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 . |