Example sentences of "[adv prt] [subord] i can " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my own part , having a little woodland garden , this is one of the two plants which I am forever poking in where I can find a place for another . |
| 2 | He says : ‘ I know that 50 runs apiece for wickets is n't good enough and I am determined to get that figure down if I can . ’ |
| 3 | when I come in if I can have poached eggs on toast and see the film , you know . |
| 4 | First time he 's said anything nice about me , I thought I 'll get in while I can |
| 5 | I could n't ask her to sit down as I can when I 'm doing a portrait of someone I know . |
| 6 | I like to blend in when I can . |
| 7 | And as I walk past I want you to turn them over so I can see if they are clean on both sides . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I only want this farce to be over so I can get on with my life . ’ |
| 9 | Well , I 've a ward round to get through before I can come over to your unit , George , so I 'd better get moving . |
| 10 | So I push as much of my stuff over as I can . |
| 11 | No , I 'll put my big trainers on if I can find them ! |
| 12 | I try to take it off so I can keep it , but the paper tears . |
| 13 | Well pissed off , going home , at least I have got tommorrow off so I can sulk at home . |
| 14 | Er , well I 'm , I 'm just in the middle of , I 'm sign writing a vehicle and I 'm half way through the letters and I 've got a , I 've got ta finish that off before I can get into my stock . |
| 15 | I go right up so I can see proper . |
| 16 | I 'd like to get cleared up so I can join the others at the end-of-shoot bash this evening . ’ |
| 17 | So when I have to weigh up whether I can afford to trade in my battered old VW and think of those who have a BMW or Mercedes , then you begin to wonder at the sense of it all . |
| 18 | ‘ All of you get out where I can see you , ’ shouted Hitch . |
| 19 | Will you let us out if I can swim across a lake full of pike ? " |
| 20 | ‘ If you do n't mind , Maria , I 'm going to telephone when we get in and find out if I can get a seat on an earlier flight back to Hong Kong — tonight , preferably , ’ he added evenly . |
| 21 | Trying to work out whether I can hear it over my coat . |
| 22 | But I am trying to work out when I can walk Paul Buttle 's circuit of the Lakes , devised especially for Outdoor Action . |
| 23 | Find out when I can take . |
| 24 | This may well be a little rose-tinted , but that weighty , bulldog clip-around-the-nose sensation appears to have been with me and indeed to have shaped me — not only me , but my nose ; not only my nose , but my personality — for as far back as I can see . |
| 25 | There also the old folks , as far back as I can recollect , the meeting place of young and old on New Year 's Day to play shinty . |
| 26 | There also the old folks , as far back as I can recollect , the meeting place of young and old on New Year 's Day to play shinty . |
| 27 | ‘ My mother sang — and music was the most important thing in my life , from as far back as I can remember . |
| 28 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
| 29 | Now that applies to any matter arising , and subsequently I think that er the Donovan Report more or less reinforced er that particular er er procedure , although it had been written into our national agreement er as far back as I can remember . |
| 30 | I think as far back as I can remember I was organising a group and telling people what to do . " |