Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regret I can shed little new light on the mystery of who blew the whistle on the celebrated dressing-room scene after Woodfull was hit . |
| 2 | I know them , I mean I can sit and have a conversation , I know their hobbies and what have you , |
| 3 | I mean I can mention the firms , there were several of them in Stapleford , because I know two , but er perhaps as well not to . |
| 4 | The hours mean I can collect the children from school and am with them in the school holidays . |
| 5 | I mean I can move it and I can make i but I , I do n't |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No well I mean I can pay for it , it 's just a question of getting it and sort of erm only we 're not often here on a Sunday , if Mr is here , is it |
| 8 | Now , that 's more or less as far as I 've got , I mean I can go on . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I mean I can give it to you to take it in tomorrow morning |
| 11 | I mean we both can cook , if it comes to that I mean I can cook |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | No , and er , I mean I can do , I could read it so er but I did |
| 14 | well no , I mean I can conceive it quite well |
| 15 | tonight and then I 'm on me raffle next week , but after next , I mean I can stop in the next , I mean I was , I 've never been out since a week on Tuesday cos I was n't on the raffle Friday |
| 16 | I , I mean I can tell you the names of the of all , everybody in them days , round the fleck area like , you know . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I mean I can tell you . |
| 19 | It was just , I wondered if , so if I get something along this line , I mean I can cope with something like this . |
| 20 | So erm I I , I mean I can understand that we have a a specific need to er address the member of who signs what cheques but I think the matter of cash is covered by two , the chief executive is answerable to a board for financial matters . |
| 21 | I mean I can understand the point of will , will , will |
| 22 | I , I mean I can understand all this but I 'm , I 'm just asking |
| 23 | I mean I can understand that |
| 24 | Erm , I think at the back of some people 's minds there was this pressure , you know that 's why a few did return to work and I mean I can understand some of them returning to work but not necessarily for the reasons they 've stated . |
| 25 | I , I mean I can understand . |
| 26 | It 's entertaining though I mean I can understand why kids get addicted to them cos once you start , you ca n't stop yo you think |
| 27 | I mean I can understand it in this day and age , people trying |
| 28 | in some ways to though , I mean I can understand I think people , some people |
| 29 | I mean I can understand why they do and I like the stuff myself , but I do n't share the belief that I get from all sides that impressionism is what art should be like normally . |
| 30 | It depends which relief road we 're talking about , but I think I would accept I mean I can accept the point that er Mr is making about er the relative er benefits in terms of traffic relief afforded by either an inner northern route or an outer northern route . |