Example sentences of "[subord] i can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I make a place for myself where I can watch them both out of the corner of my eye while I read . |
| 2 | Flaubert finished Madame Bovary on April 30th , 1856 : there at Croisset , there where I can jab my finger , between two spreading and unknowing sploshes of watercolour . |
| 3 | I need them written down , where I can touch them . |
| 4 | Have you any idea where I can find her ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Where I can find you . ’ |
| 6 | That will stop you walking round the streets and put you where I can find you , thought Coffin . |
| 7 | What I need is a nice little research job where I can write my books and keep well away from them . ’ |
| 8 | I 've always been fascinated by bag ladies who choose to live on the street- I 've come to the point in my life where I can understand what makes them drop out . |
| 9 | My medlar will be planted where I can see its pure white blossom in spring and watch its autumn leaves turn crimson . |
| 10 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 11 | ‘ All of you get out where I can see you , ’ shouted Hitch . |
| 12 | I merely want to keep you where I can see you while I dress more in accordance with entertaining an unexpected caller . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you have to sit where I can see you ? ’ he demanded . |
| 14 | Do you know what it is , and where I can get one ? |
| 15 | As Derek Brown of Birchfield , who at 13 years old and speculating on a career in athletics , spending two evenings and a Sunday morning training , said : ‘ I do n't let it bother my school work 'cause I can get it all done in my other time , but this [ athletics ] is what I 'd really like to do ; I keep setting myself goals every year to get to the top . ’ |
| 16 | I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work . |
| 17 | Nor just the pleasures of the table , although I can promise you that the chef here is superb . |
| 18 | And there is a sense in which this applies , but although I can appreciate his point that seeking a good reputation may well dominate the practical order , if it were also to dominate the activities I have designated ‘ second-order ’ then it makes nonsense of the possibility of ‘ disinterestedness ’ , enjoying something for its own sake . |
| 19 | There is an old-fashioned quality to these performances which leaves me wishing for something just a little less well-upholstered , although I can imagine anyone coming to Bach for the first time with this recording could well come away with the impression that old LEAVES is quite simply the ‘ bizz ’ , and I for one would not wish to argue with that ! |
| 20 | I keep the snapshot you sent me by my bed , but although I can see it is you , you look different — so much older . |
| 21 | Although I can see your frustration re : franky boy |
| 22 | Alas , although I can read it , the nearest I get to delivering any coherent message is a faded ‘ Share the world ’ T-shirt with tigers on it , and trousers which certainly look recycled . |
| 23 | Thorfinn said , ‘ It deserves better than I can give it . |
| 24 | If you 're in the market for the product of Citroen 's '70s Maserati connection , you will already know more about the model than I can tell you here . |
| 25 | I would n't trust those two any further than I can throw them . |
| 26 | I do not want to play games in colour on my TV , I can do household accounts with a piece of paper and a pencil , I can learn languages easier from a book and a tape recorder , if I want information I can look it up and read it far faster than I can get it from a screen and I can turn back with a nip of the finger and read it again . |
| 27 | Okay , it right , erm , nought point five three , you 're obviously going to do these quicker than I can write them down , so you can write them down . |
| 28 | Well they 're selling them cheaper than I can supply my customers . |
| 29 | For when it comes it is more violent , more annihilating , more interminable than I can remember it , this feeling in the pit of the stomach , this physical pain and physical desire to retch , to want to get rid of something , of everything , to want to make all that is inside emerge and disappear , drain away , mingle with the rest of the detritus of the world , but it is not only physical , a physical sensation , he wrote , it is physical but it is also something else , not moral , not psychological , not spiritual , but something else , something other than the purely physical . |
| 30 | 6 assorted jars of chutney , unused ( I do n't know about you but I seem to accumulate chutney , pickles , lemon curd , etc. , faster than I can demolish it and rather than throw it away when useless , I 'd prefer to give it a good home — the best way of all is to sneak the jars into the National Trust shop at your local Hall or Towers and leave them among the chutneys already there ) |