Example sentences of "i can think " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can think of more upsetting things in life . ’ |
| 2 | Twenty years later he could still recall the event : ‘ I can think about my loyal dog buried in the snow , ’ ( Death Of A Lady 's Man ) . |
| 3 | Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana . |
| 4 | By ‘ hardness ’ I mean a quality which is in poetry nearly always a virtue — I can think of no case where it is not . |
| 5 | Annoyed as we may be at having the cardinal terms left thus undefined ( for Pound proceeds no further towards defining them ) , we are compelled to see that this criticism is not of the chalk-or-cheese , sheep-and-goats variety ; the discrimination proposed is more subtle — between a quality in poetry that is ‘ nearly always ’ a virtue ( ’ I can think of no case where it is not' ) , and an opposite quality that is ‘ not always ’ a fault . |
| 6 | I 've no idea whether Europe is going to work , no one has , and I can think of huge historical reasons why it wo n't . |
| 7 | On the basis of her understanding , it appears that any artist in the USA who uses the conventions of the mass media in such a way as to produce a critique of the media ( and I can think of a good many ) is veritably a ‘ quasi-situationist ’ . |
| 8 | But I ca n't do it — all I can think about is Marie 's face . |
| 9 | I can think of very little more boring than lying on the floor and doing sit-ups and leg lifts every morning . |
| 10 | The two brothers were very close and no writer I can think of has such a hatred of death as Canetti . |
| 11 | 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 ? ’ ; |
| 12 | But I can think of several reasons to resent their existence . |
| 13 | More than any other group I can think of , Microdisney are victims of rock 's over-privileging of the text . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I can think of one or two people who might have wanted to harm her , as you suggest . |
| 15 | ‘ The only thing I can think of is that there is a convent near where I live , and they take a few elderly people . ’ |
| 16 | If I cross my hands over my breast I can think I 'm dead and in paradise , but it 's true what they say , you can get too tired to sleep . |
| 17 | ‘ Zambia , my sweet puzzle , I can think of at least two without concentrating . |
| 18 | Claire Rayner and Jeni Barnett are the only two I can think of at the moment . |
| 19 | Yes , I wanted to do a production with Balanchine , but it never happened , and now there is no one I can think I would want to do it with . |
| 20 | I can think of fewer couples more deserving of homage . |
| 21 | I hope that when you come back , you will set up your own small specialist firm — I can think of examples — and run the elephants off their feet . |
| 22 | I can think of no more deadly combination than the disciplines imposed on us by ERM and Labour 's taste for economic debauchery . |
| 23 | Mr Lloyd Webber , in London to receive an Ivor Novello Award for his musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , added : ‘ I might have to write another musical before I can think of doing this again . |
| 24 | This is a subject to which more thought should be given , and I can think of no better organisation to pursue it than your own . |
| 25 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 26 | Germany 's ever-shifting political forms throughout the 19th and 20th centuries , from Customs Union to Federation to Empire to Republic to Third Reich , and her prostration after the war , sliced in two by the East-West divide , confirm in stark reality the lines of the 19th-century poet Hölderlin : ‘ it may be a hard word , but yet I say it , for it is the truth : I can think of no people more divided than the Germans . ’ |
| 27 | The only answer to this , that I can think of , is to take the engine number of your intended purchase and check with Land Rover that this was never a petrol engine . |
| 28 | ‘ I can think of several women who did excellent post-maternity work . |
| 29 | For although I am sure he never had the chance to encounter a tiger beneath the dining table , when I think over all that I know or have heard concerning him , I can think of at least several instances of his displaying in abundance that very quality he so admired in the butler of his story . |
| 30 | One of the longest that I can think of spans a lake . |