Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] i can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've telephoned everyone I can think of , but it 's no use . |
| 2 | Ms Ogata , speaking in Nairobi , said : ‘ I have done everything I can to persuade leaders to distinguish humanitarian aid from the conflict , but they have not allowed us to carry out our mandate . ’ |
| 3 | It will take a while , I 'm afraid , but I 'll do everything I can to persuade the family that they should meet you . ’ |
| 4 | This year has been the most difficult and disturbing of my 40-year reign , but it has brought home to me that I must do everything I can to continue to carry out that duty . |
| 5 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I could not help recalling , ’ Sir Maurice Hankey , the Cabinet Secretary , wrote in his diary in September , ‘ that on the last day of Parliament Mr. Baldwin had walked across the yard outside [ the House of Commons ] and had said ‘ I will do everything I can to help the Government in making economies , but I will not enter a Coalition Government . ' |
| 7 | I promise I 'll do everything I can to help the rest of you — ‘ |
| 8 | anyway he says d' ya know he says I feel awful , he says anything I can do , he said I 'll let you have one of my beds cos |
| 9 | I 'll do anything I can to help . ’ |
| 10 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 11 | I can remember one I can remember one going up Lane at half past two in the morning . |
| 12 | If you 've got something I can put the water in I 'll go and see if I can get some for you , ’ Maggie offered . |
| 13 | Using everything I can get . |
| 14 | If it 's helpful to you , I 'm perfectly ready to listen and to do everything I can to help ’ . ’ |
| 15 | Geoff , a quality assurance group leader at British Aerospace in Lostock near Bolton , explained : ‘ After a series of extremely expensive phone calls to the Society 's Chairman , Mr Joe Carroll , in Ireland , last month , I was so bitten by the bug I wanted to do everything I can to help from my armchair here in Wigan , so to speak . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm very keen to get success at the club , and I want to do everything I can to bring it about . |
| 17 | But if this works , if I hear something I can use and it works , then we both make money — you now , me later . ’ |
| 18 | You know that I want to do anything I can to help . ’ |
| 19 | Can you suggest anything I can do without making him feel unhappy or threatened ? |
| 20 | I spent the past nine and a half years doing everything I can to keep everything about my daughter secret . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm going to read everything I can find about old Carteron . |
| 22 | I like writing letters and reading anything I can lay my hands on ! |
| 23 | I have tried everything I can think of to rectify the situation , but to no avail . |
| 24 | Can you nip in the shops I wan na get something I can suck cos it do |
| 25 | JEWKES : He is my master and if he bids me do anything I can do I think I ought to do it and let him who has power to command me look to the lawfulness of it . |
| 26 | ‘ He said nothing I can do , so to let the police in . |
| 27 | On the general question regarding the exercise by this court of the statutory discretion conferred by section 13(3) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 and by R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) , I have nothing I can add to what Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has said , with which I am in respectful and complete agreement . |