Example sentences of "[pers pn] i can [vb infin] [pron] " 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 | That came as a great surprise to me I can tell you . |
| 3 | So I thought well I 'll carry one of these for when I 'm going out in my car to which , you know , and if somebody does come up to me I can use it in a positive manner while in a split second time for me , hopefully beca , cos of my range of work |
| 4 | Yes my aunt was Mrs David , and goodness me I can remember her having the laces pulled in . |
| 5 | Well I got to work all day and I 'm still oh do you think , want me I can get you two I 'll write you a list , . |
| 6 | I mean normally I do n't bother with the tokens , I mean I Anyway I paid the cheque and I said to Peter I said oh by the way what about me tokens for me for me toy I said if I get a free one of them I can give it to give it to the grandchildren . |
| 7 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
| 8 | Well , I have n't got a fax here but I I can send you one because I certainly know my delegates would n't want to book at er mm . |
| 9 | The s working at the centre I I can tell you that one of the especially being the activities officer which is what I am , one of the biggest problems with the centre , is not being able to put things on , it 's getting people to be interested in them . |
| 10 | Right I can I I can tell you . |
| 11 | No , I I I can remember what it 's like actually . |
| 12 | I suppose it 's erm in in that sense erm er I I I I can see what you 're , this , I do n't think that 's a factor in in in the , in the erm in in the fact that these wars are short . |
| 13 | What we would advocate , as indeed Mr Smith did earlier , is that there should be a a global figure for Greater York , and a reduction , in an appropriate reduction in the requirement for each district , and I believe that anticipating you might ask me what that is what that reduction should be , erm I I can say it must be related to the ca capacity , of that district within Greater York . |
| 14 | I I can write it but when I is what quick ? |
| 15 | so er , I I can ask her anyway . |
| 16 | If I make money I I 'll make you I can pay you as well , if I go up I mean if I go down , he said , I can go up or down as well , he said . |
| 17 | I think I 'd better take these books back down again I think , oh mind you I can put them up here perhaps . |
| 18 | Well if you 're all the way over there and I 'm talking to you I can hear my voice more . |
| 19 | When you 've got up next morni And then we I can tell you another thing , and very few people know about it , especially I bet you do n't know wha what they called beastlings , do you ? |
| 20 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 21 | Er , I can make it I can make it Monklands , or Strathclyde ? |
| 22 | It took me a devil of a time to find it I can tell you . |
| 23 | but because I know you can do it I can say you another one to one conversation with you about it , but basically you 're no way near to guide the customer you 're in there to sell the customer |
| 24 | The only trouble is that it lies quite close to a footbridge and as soon as anyone walks across it I can guarantee I will not get a bite for at least an hour afterwards . |
| 25 | While I 've still got it I can take it out and look at it and know I still have it . |
| 26 | Yes only yes you took it I can take it from tomorrow for a week |
| 27 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |