Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i can make " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So if I can make a suggestion ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If I promise to practise putting the cap on the toothpaste , will you marry me as soon as I can make arrangements ? ’ |
| 3 | As far as I can make out , all we have done so far is talk about it and we have not even done very much of that . |
| 4 | But he was an American citizen , born in the States as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ As far as I can make out no one has yet said conclusively that this man is Greg Martin' , she argued . |
| 6 | As far as I can make out , Deanes does n't believe that young people should be expected to know the difference between right and wrong . |
| 7 | ‘ As far as I can make out from the little she said about what actually happened , the man who kidnapped them , there was only one at that point , was hidden in the back of their car when they got in . |
| 8 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 9 | Following a time-honoured tradition of psychiatric categories , she elaborates the ‘ bereavement response ’ to diagnosis into a farrago of stages ( none of whose terms , as far as I can make out , has ever been defined ) : ( 1 ) ‘ Shock ’ , ( 2 ) ‘ panic ’ , ( 3 ) ‘ Denial ’ , ( 4 ) ‘ Grief ’ , ( 5 ) ‘ Guilt ’ , ( 6 ) ‘ Anger ’ ( in general ) , ( 7 ) ‘ Anger Against professionals ’ , ( 8 ) ‘ Bargaining ’ and finally ( 9 ) ‘ Acceptance ’ . |
| 10 | As far as I can make out , we 've already passed where it 's supposed to have stopped . |
| 11 | There 's a flower bed of sorts over by the fence but the flowers look to be on their last legs , as far as I can make out . |
| 12 | ‘ Only Nicola herself , as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 13 | The keys to the Cathedral were widely distributed as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ No — as far as I can make out it was hidden in it . |
| 15 | Actually , I would n't mind at all , because as far as I can make out Walter was an amiable scamp . |
| 16 | In so far as I can make out the policy of the Labour party , it is to give the business rate back to local authorities . |
| 17 | As far as I can make out , the hon. and learned Gentleman has just created a precedent by telling the House that , in the two wars in which we have been involved , it was — to use his word — ’ inconceivable ’ that the Government would have used nuclear weapons . |
| 18 | ‘ As far as I can make out , ’ Blunt said , ‘ the girl was in the fields under our dog-fight , and somebody 's bullets hit her . ’ |
| 19 | ( 87 ) He appears to be unaware of after-image phenomena and , so far as I can make out , puts forward an explanation , instead , which says that movement can be perceived when no object is seen to move ! |
| 20 | And underneath that thought ( I think ! ) is another one another underblanket , insulating the underblanket above and which , so far as I can make out through the layers on top of it , runs something like this : |