Example sentences of "[pron] i can [vb infin] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the girl dances close to me I can smell her perfume and all that has gone before is completely forgotten ; the slit trenches , the mosquitoes , the wounded and my dead comrades . |
| 2 | Yes my aunt was Mrs David , and goodness me I can remember her having the laces pulled in . |
| 3 | Against : almost nothing I can put my finger on , except that it 's a darned expensive guitar and I expected it to justify its price by being inspiring — which , for all of us who tried it , it somehow failed to be . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , physically there 's nothing I can put my finger on . |
| 5 | It is a terrible , solitary kind of life , whereby I can not for instance have people with whom I can discuss my writing , unless I leave the country and meet people like Bessie Head , who died , or Buchi Emecheta and Ama Ata Aidoo . |
| 6 | That is a good point on which I can give my hon. Friend not only a specific example , but an assurance . |
| 7 | There is no way in which I can match my hon. Friend 's colourful eloquence . |
| 8 | But now I 'm more together , I 've a whole lot of other areas in which I can express my feelings , I just hope the songs wo n't lose anything . |
| 9 | Unfortunately the only way in which I can fulfil my interest is to work . |
| 10 | As I said at the beginning of this essay , the only way in which I can fulfil my interest is to work : — and so I do . |
| 11 | Well if you 're all the way over there and I 'm talking to you I can hear my voice more . |
| 12 | ‘ It is n't something I can put my finger on , Chieh Hsia . |
| 13 | I like writing letters and reading anything I can lay my hands on ! |
| 14 | And from Quotable Women : ‘ I 'll read almost anything I can get my hands on from women 's magazines to Dickens . |