Example sentences of "[subord] i can [vb infin] [pers pn] " 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 | I need them written down , where I can touch them . |
| 3 | Have you any idea where I can find her ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Where I can find you . ’ |
| 5 | That will stop you walking round the streets and put you where I can find you , thought Coffin . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ All of you get out where I can see you , ’ shouted Hitch . |
| 8 | I merely want to keep you where I can see you while I dress more in accordance with entertaining an unexpected caller . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you have to sit where I can see you ? ’ he demanded . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nor just the pleasures of the table , although I can promise you that the chef here is superb . |
| 13 | I keep the snapshot you sent me by my bed , but although I can see it is you , you look different — so much older . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thorfinn said , ‘ It deserves better than I can give it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I would n't trust those two any further than I can throw them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) |
| 22 | Come up for God 's sake , Harry , so I can pull you out . |
| 23 | A towel that I 've put over the radiator to get warm so I can wrap it cosily round myself and hug myself dry . |
| 24 | ‘ She gives a quick squirt so I can smell it , then finds a nice , easy chair till she hears me coming . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If you 'll only take hold of this damn bag so I can go I will . |
| 26 | ‘ Ring Sam , ’ suggested Tim , ‘ and tell her to get her arse over here so I can tell her about the window . ’ |
| 27 | I 've made them eat everything I do , so I can tell you the food is n't tampered with . |
| 28 | I 'd be most obliged if you 'd open your door so I can tell you what this is about . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm watching it on television so I can tell you what happens . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ So I can tell you that the word is that they have not found what they were looking for . |