Example sentences of "[conj] i can [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I make a place for myself where I can watch them both out of the corner of my eye while I read . |
| 2 | I need them written down , where I can touch them . |
| 3 | Have you any idea where I can find her ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Where I can find you . ’ |
| 5 | That will stop you walking round the streets and put you where I can find you , thought Coffin . |
| 6 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 7 | ‘ All of you get out where I can see you , ’ shouted Hitch . |
| 8 | I merely want to keep you where I can see you while I dress more in accordance with entertaining an unexpected caller . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you have to sit where I can see you ? ’ he demanded . |
| 10 | ‘ I can drag you or I can carry you — except that it would probably kill me . ’ |
| 11 | " If you have other inquiries you wish to make I 'm sure that he or I can satisfy you . |
| 12 | Er I can put it in , in a bottle or I can give you tablets . |
| 13 | You can come quietly — or I can make you ’ |
| 14 | You can come quietly or I can make you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I can either trust you and allow you to take charge of the whole business , or I can decide you 're not to be trusted and take charge of things myself . |
| 16 | ‘ I can shut up OR I can tell you when the Ship is going to arrive . |
| 17 | Or I can charge you — withholding information , conspiracy , being an accomplice , possession of heroin , indecent exposure : anything that comes to mind , really . ’ |
| 18 | As Derek Brown of Birchfield , who at 13 years old and speculating on a career in athletics , spending two evenings and a Sunday morning training , said : ‘ I do n't let it bother my school work 'cause I can get it all done in my other time , but this [ athletics ] is what I 'd really like to do ; I keep setting myself goals every year to get to the top . ’ |
| 19 | I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work . |
| 20 | Nor just the pleasures of the table , although I can promise you that the chef here is superb . |
| 21 | I keep the snapshot you sent me by my bed , but although I can see it is you , you look different — so much older . |
| 22 | Alas , although I can read it , the nearest I get to delivering any coherent message is a faded ‘ Share the world ’ T-shirt with tigers on it , and trousers which certainly look recycled . |
| 23 | The best answer that I can give him is that the fact that Mr. Thorpe had available to him the escape route of appealing to a health authority elsewhere in the country meant that the process was not carried to its conclusion in north Devon . |
| 24 | Now , I want the best for you , the best that I can give you , because in a way you belong to me now , and Ben there . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 26 | When I said to you earlier erm there 's several ways in which you can help me now the main way you can help me is erm is er the way I do , the way I prefer to do business is by personal recommendations and you 've seen the service that I can give you , you 've seen , we 've been through your , your personal situation , your financial situation , have you found that of benefit ? |
| 27 | If I 'm if I I am in luxurious position of saying that I can fit you in to some of these companies . |
| 28 | ‘ Anything that I can tell you , Inspector , I will , but my acquaintanceship with Mrs Iverson in the event was brief . ’ |
| 29 | The most revealing anecdote that I can tell you about that is from Coventry . |
| 30 | But erm I real I really enjoyed it and er to me it was interesting work and I do n't know that I can tell you much more about the locks . |