Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I can scarcely get a comb through it in the morning . |
| 2 | Now this does n't alter for one moment my recommendation of this as a superb performance , but I can well imagine a non-violinist , with less understanding of the extraordinary soloistic skill involved , homing in on and lambasting the accompaniment , giving only an average rating as a result . |
| 3 | like a dog , it 's been a hard day 's night boom boom boom boom sleeping hope they do n't come too early , although then we 'll , I can just leave a note . |
| 4 | But if I can just quote a couple of cases . |
| 5 | If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’ |
| 6 | I can just see a little haddock at home , receiving a phone call saying he 's won a prize . |
| 7 | I , I can just see a touch of the black . |
| 8 | So I can just have a quick check and make sure they are okay , but I 'm pretty sure if you think they 're right |
| 9 | I can just catch a flight if I rush . |
| 10 | So if I can just put a tick there |
| 11 | He was like a schoolboy , never mind that I was behaving like a schoolgirl , I can not stand a man who ca n't cope with me … |
| 12 | I can not sleep a wink now , |
| 13 | ‘ One of the safeguards to individuals against libel is the remedy by action ; and I can not conceive a proposition more dangerous than this , that because a company is incorporated they have no appeal to a court of justice if they are libelled . |
| 14 | ‘ One of the safeguards to individuals against libel is the remedy by action ; and I can not conceive a proposition more dangerous than this , that because a company is incorporated they have no appeal to a court of justice if they are libelled . |
| 15 | I can not do a good job from a chair on a table ! |
| 16 | So I do not say , ‘ Believe me , for I can not tell a lie . ’ |
| 17 | A similar effect of , on the one hand , challenging the reader to take up an alert and interpretative role , and , on the other , gratuitously creating an amorphous but strong atmosphere peculiar to the fabliau through the text , is achieved by extensive use of the homonyms vit and con , and com-/con- as a common suffix in the Romance languages : ( I can not make a long tale : in this castle there was a count and with him the countess , his wife , who was a very beautiful and worthy woman ; and there were [ or she had ] more than thirty knights . |
| 18 | I can not want a man who wants to see me in gaol . |
| 19 | I can not devote a whole book to the subject , so my descriptions of the numerous cheeses available will be rather brief . |
| 20 | I can not give a reliable date as to when the Metropolitan police report in the case of the first matters will be available , but I have no reason to suppose that it is not being prosecuted with all celerity by the dedicated team that the Commissioner has made available . |
| 21 | I can not give a precise date , but that is the intention . |
| 22 | Although I can not give a date , we intend to proceed just as soon as we can resolve the question of the contract . |
| 23 | Mr Ritchie , who will be deputy chief executive of the group , warned : ‘ I can not give a guarantee that there will be no redundancies . |
| 24 | ‘ I can not wave a magic wand and change the season around . |
| 25 | Leers are accessible ( 158 ) to me , but I can not explain a leer , unless by this is meant saying in what context talk of leering makes sense . |
| 26 | ‘ I can not marry a man who secretly despises me . |
| 27 | I can not face a quarrel and I can see nothing to quarrel about . |
| 28 | ‘ I must go , clearly , because I can not defend a policy I candidly dislike , ’ he wrote on 4 November , having already told Sir Walter Monckton , the Paymaster General , on 1 November that ‘ I felt I might have to resign as I thought the policy bad and disastrous . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I find life so boring if I can not enjoy a drink , ’ he said . |
| 30 | I say I 'm sorry I can not understand a word you 're saying . |