Example sentences of "[subord] i can [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I had one bloody customer see if I can quote him to a complete relocate , it was only a bloody er systems , probably no taller than that speaker |
| 2 | if I can give him that one . |
| 3 | ‘ Not if I can stop him , ’ said Gildas . |
| 4 | If I can make him play deep and keep him as far away from our goal as possible the more I 'll fancy our chances . ’ |
| 5 | If I can make him take another step he will come alongside Ludo . |
| 6 | Should I just take a peek through the windows of those double doors — see if I can see him — Vern 's dad ? |
| 7 | ‘ Ask him if I can call him back . |
| 8 | Fair enough , well if I can help him in any way by talking to him , it 's not a case of who wins and who loses , we all lose . |
| 9 | If I can find him I 'll try to persuade him to visit her too . ’ |
| 10 | I do it ( a little ) to see if I can get him drunk and careless , but so far he wo n't touch it . |
| 11 | I 'll have to phone Nick tonight to see if the Captain has a phone number now rather than just an address cos if I can phone him it 'll be a lot easier . |
| 12 | If I can say he 's smug because I 'm his sister , I can also say he 's a man of very high principles . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Ribalta is hard to hit , but if I can catch him I will knock him out . ’ |
| 14 | I shall stay alive until I can catch him . |
| 15 | Cos I can remember him saying before he used to drive round to spy |
| 16 | I know that the hon. Gentleman agrees with me , because I can see him assenting . |
| 17 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 18 | But when I can see he 's not looking , I do so . |
| 19 | I mean he does n't want for nothing , he gets as much as I can give him . |
| 20 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |
| 21 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |