Example sentences of "[coord] i can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can cover the front of the house , or I can cover the back . |
| 2 | You can get onto the market by cheque , or do a telegraphic transfer from your bank to ours , or I can send round a bike … |
| 3 | ‘ I can drag you or I can carry you — except that it would probably kill me . ’ |
| 4 | The world is headed into chaos , child , and there is little you or I can do to stop it . ’ |
| 5 | But how I am to get conveyed with my luggage to Maitland neither Stephen or I can devise , three teams of bullocks having left Warra on their way from the plains to this place eight days ago and have not yet arrived . |
| 6 | ‘ I can go from this place today , and you 'll see nothing of me again , or I can stay . |
| 7 | Or I can stay , as I know I probably will . |
| 8 | Now this act can take any form you like , I could go or I can go right , then I 'll go like this , and I want you all give me a great big round of applause . |
| 9 | Or I can go for a brand new what I 've had before , you know not the special edition |
| 10 | " If you have other inquiries you wish to make I 'm sure that he or I can satisfy you . |
| 11 | Er I can put it in , in a bottle or I can give you tablets . |
| 12 | You can come quietly — or I can make you ’ |
| 13 | You can come quietly or I can make you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I can either trust you and allow you to take charge of the whole business , or I can decide you 're not to be trusted and take charge of things myself . |
| 15 | ‘ I can shut up OR I can tell you when the Ship is going to arrive . |
| 16 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 17 | Or I can charge you — withholding information , conspiracy , being an accomplice , possession of heroin , indecent exposure : anything that comes to mind , really . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Well , Charles , if there 's anything else I can tell you , or I can find out for you , let me know . ’ |
| 19 | I think I think I go back to this point about I think in concept anyway I 'm not happy about er a proposition that er that function is performed or I can see the disadvantages significant disadvantages in having the traffic er for both the A sixty one er and the A fifty nine c and its links into Harrogate and Knaresborough , concentrated on that er on on inner northern line . |
| 20 | Or I can get some paper and put it over |
| 21 | They will not be roads you or I can use . |
| 22 | Or I can superimpose the green one |
| 23 | no completely void because you ca n't severe the good from the bad in section fourteen , your Lordship could n't take a blue pencil and , and , and find some words in section fourteen which say erm , you know , I can take out an article eighty five claim or I can allow an article eighty five claim but I can leave something else in |
| 24 | Or I can say are you ready for traffic and travel ? |
| 25 | Or I can hurry up and become my older ( better ? wiser ? ) self . |
| 26 | When I go abroad on holiday , I think : I 'm here for two weeks , I can either sit here fully dressed for a whole fortnight , or I can take my leg off and jump in the pool . |
| 27 | Neither my sister nor I can remember exactly what we had for dinner , but we chose not merely a good cheese but a claret of which we hoped he would approve . |
| 28 | My current owner , it said , is in need of succour and assistance ; why not give it to him , so you and me can go off somewhere and enjoy ourselves ? |
| 29 | ‘ Emily and me can take care of the shop ; you have a rest while you can — you look quite washed out . |
| 30 | Some of his displays have reminded me of Gerald Davies at his best — and I can give no-one a greater compliment . |