Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] i can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all I can do when there is a woman referee is to accept her . |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing feels right and all I can do is try and work it out for myself . |
| 3 | It is easy to see that studying the growth and modifiability of neurons is a much harder task than describing them in the state you normally find them , so it is not surprising that much less is known , and all I can do here is to point out some of the interesting possibilities that are opening up . |
| 4 | Maybe they 're closing in on us right now and all I can do is mess about playing cook ? |
| 5 | ‘ I have my goals and all I can do is set out to emulate his feats . ’ |
| 6 | She writes the words : arresting images ( lives that go in circles ‘ like a pigeon on a tyre ’ ) , moments of disturbing lucidity amid inscrutable dream-imagery ( ‘ give me what I want/ And all I can think about is losing it ’ ; ‘ why ca n't you do to my insights/What you do to my insides ? ’ ; |
| 7 | I was a New Man before New Men had capital letters , but I feel like an Old Man these days , and all I can think is that by the time this one is through university I 'll be nearly sixty . |
| 8 | Now that is all behind me and all I can think about now is winning the 1991 world championship . ’ |
| 9 | And all I can think is Do n't confess , do n't confess , do n't confess . |
| 10 | I got to stick with the President and all I can think about.is those two and what they 're up to . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought a personal appeal to the Brotherhood for a relic for Shaftesbury Abbey would be much better than legal wrangling , and all I can say at present is that negotiations are going very well indeed , ’ said Mrs Rider last night . |
| 12 | You come to me , and all I can say |
| 13 | However , Hyperion do not name the venue and all I can say is that the given acoustics have not been allowed to supply the degree of warm enrichment this music seems to demand . |
| 14 | Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way . |
| 15 | And all I can say is , God help me in the years between , because there 's going to be a fight and I do n't know if I shall be strong enough or clever enough to last out . |
| 16 | I think I 'm right in saying Madam Chairman that y of those first seven we 've still got two schemes in still to come and there was one in erm so I look forward to the progress and er that we 're making on this and all I can say is |
| 17 | He 's seen the film 36 times already , and all I can get out of him is how he should have had the part . |
| 18 | ‘ He lost it , and all I can remember was that it was about a star . ’ |
| 19 | My worst feelings were about the bit of a temper I had , and all I can remember was my silent prayer , ‘ Lord , take this away ’ . ’ |
| 20 | It 's all dark and all I can see are these metal cages all round . |
| 21 | So I 'm walking up the stairs and he 's walking up behind me , and all I can hear is Russell saying watch yourself cos he had his hands on me watch yourself . |
| 22 | Yeah they , they 've played in red and white , red , white , red shirts white shorts , but they , they used to play in claret and blue I can remember seeing them in claret and blue when I was a small boy but erm |
| 23 | ‘ We talked about football but all he wanted to talk about was sex , ’ she said , before adding , ‘ I hear he 's not been scoring many goals recently and that 's why he left Arsenal , but all I can tell you is he certainly scored a hat-trick with me that night . ’ |
| 24 | But all I can do at this moment in time is tell you where I stand today . |
| 25 | Johnson revealed : ‘ It was a great result for Cambridge and I hope it helped my position , but all I can do now is wait and see . |
| 26 | I wish I 'd never taken Maurin 's money , but all I can do now is keep quiet and wait for it to end . ’ |
| 27 | I have to admit Mr Graham has a point here , but all I can say is that after one has been in the profession as long as one has , one is able to judge intuitively the depth of a man 's professionalism without having to see it under pressure . |
| 28 | I know I sound like a bloody know-all , but all I can say is , if that satisfies the police doctor , it does n't satisfy me . ’ |
| 29 | But all I can say is that I am certain that there is , as I speak , an extraterrestrial presence in the area . |
| 30 | But all I can say is we people who see us I mean it 's not as if everybody has to have favours with their wedding , it 's still a fairly new thing . |