Example sentences of "[pron] can [vb infin] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I said to her , ‘ Look I 'm going out in a couple of weeks , you must tell me exactly what happened so I can tell the papers about it . ’ |
2 | Seumas Ban the steward whiles comes down special to give me the word , so that I can tell the bees . ’ |
3 | I mainly use the package with my Brother 950i , to which I have a connecting cable , but I ca n't wait for Soft Byte to produce one for the Pfaff 6000 so that I can view the patterns on screen before knitting them . |
4 | Can I , I would like to change the wording of the er amendment and I 'm grateful to Mr for the advice he gave because I think by erm a slightly shorter and er er brisker wording I can achieve the objectives that I set out to achieve . |
5 | I can spin the wheels at random , look at whatever number is displayed and exclaim with hindsight : " How amazing . |
6 | And er , my expenditure might 've been erm oh I do n't know , something that I can do the sums on , five thousand three hundred . |
7 | Reaching the final of this competition at Wembley could earn Newcastle up to £1 m and Keegan said : ‘ I can assure the fans we 're not treating this as a public workout . |
8 | I bet I can guess the names . |
9 | I can drop the cards round anytime . ’ |
10 | I can feed the goats on the ones that are not |
11 | Would you be good enough to re-advise me of your full address so that I can send the documents to you ? |
12 | The hours mean I can collect the children from school and am with them in the school holidays . |
13 | And that 's something we must do before the next meeting so that I can answer the questions , cos we do n't really know at this moment . |
14 | So if that 's that , that 's not bad , so yeah , so , so side three B now , so if we can get two and a half of three tapes done , cos then I can change the batteries and I get to keep , get a free pizza which is n't a bad thing |
15 | 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 . |
16 | I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast . |
17 | And to get to the passage I know of is n't easy , but with this little key I can open the doors now . |
18 | That way , I can dodge the knives when they come . ’ |
19 | I can feel the fingers spread out now , stroking me . |
20 | I can feel the lorries every time they go past — the ground sort of shakes like a whatnot — an earthquake . |
21 | I can feel the backs of my eyes warming now . |
22 | I can feel the eyes in my back . ’ |
23 | my heart starts racing and I can feel the pulses in my neck and like my throat 's constricting . |
24 | I can feel the courses . |
25 | I can feel the blows myself ! ’ |
26 | In particular , Joe has asked if I can justify the values selected for the base resistors . |
27 | I can manage the cart-horses . ’ |
28 | Somewhere in the severe dance of this roiling sleep I can sense the beginnings of a profound rearrangement , as if everything bad might soon be good , as if everything wrong might soon be right . |
29 | ‘ I rise to the challenge in his voice ‘ But surely — I can make the changes tomorrow morning … ’ |
30 | Just turning briefly to the issue of affordable housing , you 'll see from my H One submissions the City Council has a target , er which is in the the York area housing strategy , which is currently with the D O E for its consideration , of something like a hundred and fifty dwellings a year , giving over the fifteen year period a two thousand two hundred target , how we will go about achieving that is primarily , where it 's possible using land we already own , or is in ownership of housing associations , and taking into account the the seven dwellings outside the current city boundary , we believe in total they will contribute some fifteen hundred dwellings towards that two thousand two hundred target , this will leave clearly a significant shortfall , and it will therefore be necessary to seek to negotiate , if I can use the terms of P B G 3 erm with house builders as sites come forward in in the local during the local plan period . |