Example sentences of "[adv] i can [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourthly , fourthly I can tell him that prescription charges will raise nearly three hundred million pounds in the forthcoming year . |
| 2 | Where is Andrew ? ’ and eventually I can tell them and Mrs Gould gives a strange little shuddering cry and Mr Gould tells her to get the people in the house and phone for an ambulance and runs away down the path towards the river with the four Golden Labradors barking excitedly behind him . |
| 3 | Only I can stop it . |
| 4 | But only I can say I did n't know before , I thought I was happy . |
| 5 | Now I must return to my people , for their molecular codes are suffering indigital chancre , and only I can save them . |
| 6 | Perhaps I can blame it all on the gin ( please , I was drunk , I did n't know what I was doing , it was n't my fault , etc. ) but I doubt it . |
| 7 | In that case , perhaps I can consult you about the other unpleasant incident . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps I can give you some of the background to this particular matter . |
| 9 | He chuckled , ‘ Perhaps I can make him see the error of his ways . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps I can overcome it in time … but it is too much of … forgive me … of a market , an auction , a commercial venture … |
| 11 | Well perhaps I can see you go for them . |
| 12 | I still feel as fit as a butcher 's dog ; if I confine the news to my close circle , perhaps I can keep it out of the press . |
| 13 | But perhaps I can help you now . |
| 14 | Perhaps I can help you … " |
| 15 | " I think perhaps I can help you . |
| 16 | Perhaps I can help you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps I can help you , ’ the young woman said , and she stepped forward onto the terrace planking . |
| 18 | At length the Head Messenger , a man from East London of some presence but little formal education , stepped forward : ‘ Perhaps I can help you , gentlemen , ’ he said with a deferential cough . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps I can help you . |
| 20 | ‘ I think perhaps I can persuade you to delay that , min elskede , ’ he returned lazily . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps I can persuade you that the life of a vigneronne has much to recommend it after all . ’ |
| 22 | Out of the car park … then round the corner and into the High Street , full of fat old housewives and layabouts , past Woolworth 's and into Tesco 's — perhaps I can lose them among the counters . |
| 23 | Perhaps I can introduce him to you . ’ |
| 24 | laid out so I can pull it all together . |
| 25 | Then , from Riva , ‘ You 're either going to have to get a tissue out of my skirt pocket and wipe my nose for me , or untie me so I can do it myself . ’ |
| 26 | Get down then , so I can do it |
| 27 | So I can do it walking home ca n't I ? |
| 28 | No , I 'm , I 'm not you see so I can do it if you 're busy |
| 29 | Oh so I can throw them away can I ? |
| 30 | So I can expect you when ? ’ |