Example sentences of "[conj] i can [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nowhere else with such a great choice of books , nowhere where I can trawl through such a selection |
| 2 | ‘ Now you listen to me — if I ca n't have a chalet I must have a room where I can talk to Silas privately . |
| 3 | Want to get a 900 number , where people can call and get a message , where I can talk with them . |
| 4 | I am going to ask Daddy to take me back home where I can go to work . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm thinkin' of buildin' me a shed where I can work in peace , ’ he added , sucking his bleeding finger . |
| 6 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 7 | ‘ It is also my little laboratory where I can experiment with new dishes and new ideas . |
| 8 | There is one place where I can say I am at home , where I can live in peace and quiet with my most beloved father and my dearest sister , where I can do as I like , where apart from the duties of my appointment I am my own master , and where I have a permanent income and yet can go off when I like , and travel every second year … |
| 9 | Or I can go for a brand new what I 've had before , you know not the special edition |
| 10 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 11 | It may not be the path , but of course it is perfectly possible , although steep and hard , to get to the summit of Ben Nevis via this corrie although I can think of no mountaineer who would imagine a gushing , torrential waterfall to be the path , take off their socks and shoes and start trying to wade up it . |
| 12 | Although I can move to another wing of the house , if that makes you feel happier . ’ |
| 13 | I would like to fit a built-in dual-fuel hob in my kitchen so that I can cook with both gas and electricity . |
| 14 | It 's any that I can talk over it . |
| 15 | That I can talk about it ? |
| 16 | In one way life for me is difficult under these circumstances because , as I said , there 's no one really that I can talk to . |
| 17 | I have my family who always help me , and some very good friends that I can talk to and discuss problems that I have . |
| 18 | Especially now that I can talk to you about Chris . |
| 19 | I 'd like to feel that I can rely on you for help . ’ |
| 20 | Please could you tell me something about this fish , such as how large will it get , so that I can prepare for rehousing it ? |
| 21 | Back at the scene of the burglary , I can remember thinking next , ‘ Oh well , I suppose I can re-wrap some of the parcels that have just been torn open ; I suppose I could use cash instead for some of the presents that have gone ; there is some way that I can cope with this . ’ |
| 22 | By this I do n't mean that I can cure the patient , but that I can cope with the situation . |
| 23 | It wo n't do any good but it is the only way that I can reply to your last love letter or apologize for that cruel punch at your face . |
| 24 | The only answer to this , that I can think of , is to take the engine number of your intended purchase and check with Land Rover that this was never a petrol engine . |
| 25 | One of the longest that I can think of spans a lake . |
| 26 | For half of the twelve tracks here , the Labèques use acoustic pianos ( that has always struck me as an oddity , by the way : a piano , or a guitar that was n't acoustic would be damned difficult to record ; the only non-acoustic piano that I can think of is Joseph Cooper 's dummy keyboard ) ; for the others we are told they play ‘ MIDI Grand pianos & Synthesisers ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Not that I can think of . ’ |
| 28 | It covers the first item that I can think of to be prohibited from schools ... |
| 29 | Every separatist movement in Europe that I can think of bases itself on ‘ ethnicity ’ , linguistic or not , that is to say on the assumption that ‘ we ’ — the Basques , Catalans , Scots , Croats , or Georgians are a different people from the Spaniards , the English , the Serbs or the Russians , and therefore we should not live in the same state with them . |
| 30 | I ca n't type or do anything useful that I can think of , but I learn quickly . |