Example sentences of "[subord] i can see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ All of you get out where I can see you , ’ shouted Hitch . |
| 3 | I merely want to keep you where I can see you while I dress more in accordance with entertaining an unexpected caller . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you have to sit where I can see you ? ’ he demanded . |
| 5 | I keep the snapshot you sent me by my bed , but although I can see it is you , you look different — so much older . |
| 6 | Outside the cage the photographer 's saying : ‘ When you jump , spread your arms and legs so I can see you . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Will you share a drop with me ? ’ he says , waving the bottle so I can see it . |
| 8 | They 're fixing one on Monday so I can see it but I 've already talked to other people who 've done it and they 're so popular . |
| 9 | Should I just take a peek through the windows of those double doors — see if I can see him — Vern 's dad ? |
| 10 | but so I 'm going to ring up tomorrow and see if I can see her . |
| 11 | ‘ Okay , then , I 'll give it a go if you 'll pay for the diesel and if I can see you Saturday night . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm not , I do n't want it until I can see it . |
| 13 | Cos I can see it bleeding . |
| 14 | I know that the hon. Gentleman agrees with me , because I can see him assenting . |
| 15 | Grandma used to always say , Oh I know she 's on the bus because I can see her here . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But when I can see he 's not looking , I do so . |
| 18 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 19 | ‘ As far as I can see we can either go for Dersingham or for the man himself . |
| 20 | But as far as I can see we are more or less covered . |
| 21 | Just so long as I can see you . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I treat you like a child because as far as I can see you are one . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ As far as I can see you do n't do anything , you just sit up there . |
| 24 | ‘ So far as I can see it 's practically certain Mr Merrivale was in there with her early on in the night , ’ said Ethel . |
| 25 | True , the attraction of becoming ‘ British ’ is a big one , but as far as I can see it is the only one . |
| 26 | Actually so far as I can see it 's sod 's law for women , just as it always has been . |
| 27 | Er Selby have as I und as I can see it today , failed to establish any need for the bid for two hundred two hundred and fifty hectares which they 've put forward . |
| 28 | I think it 's debatable how selfish people really are , particularly when they see that their are short-term selfishness may in fact create long-term problems for themselves , for their children , for their grandchildren , for er other generations and other peoples , and really as I can see it the green message is one of enlightened self-interest . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ As far as I can see she simply ran and he ran after her , but there are other tracks there , I think the boy 's . ’ |