Example sentences of "that i ca " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps radio will allow me to play all the unsuitable roles that I ca n't do visually in the theatre , where it 's just the voice and the character . |
| 2 | It may be that I ca n't help , but … ’ |
| 3 | The trouble is that I ca n't identify it and ca n't find it in my gardening books or in any of the books at my local library . |
| 4 | David Howell did not remember his time in Cabinet with much pleasure — ‘ some arguments just left such acrimony and ill-feeling that I ca n't believe they really could have been enjoyable … |
| 5 | ‘ A woman would be able to help you in ways that I ca n't , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ I was so young when it was first diagnosed that I ca n't really remember a time without it . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I was hoping to do some digging , ’ said the Prince , ‘ but it 's so hard that I ca n't get the spade in . |
| 8 | My ambition is to have a different look each day so that I ca n't be labelled . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 10 | Eventually , at tea time , I tell Nicola 's mother that I ca n't go to India because I 'm starting a course at university . |
| 11 | For the first time , it occurs to me that my body has needs for food , needs of its own that I ca n't try to overrule with dieting and ferocious exercise and fasting ; and in a bigger way , I realise that I have needs of all kinds that I had tried to ignore : a need for food , a need to be loved , a need to feel accepted , a need for independence , a need to grow up , and a need for security . |
| 12 | A thousand needs that I 've spent most of my teenage years pretending do n't exist , and when they 've made themselves felt , so strongly that I ca n't fail to be aware of them , I 've crushed them , trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know , fighting a pointless and endless war against myself . |
| 13 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
| 14 | When I tell him ( truthfully ) that I ca n't remember , he asks me again . |
| 15 | That I ca n't be , |
| 16 | I can only compose at night , so that I ca n't get up early as well ; besides , one is not always in the mood for working . |
| 17 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not such an outsider that I ca n't see what a mistake you made with those steps — ‘ |
| 19 | It might be that I ca n't be objective about my own songs , ’ he told City Limits . |
| 20 | ‘ It follows , said Karelius slowly , ‘ that I ca n't go back to Sanders ' place . |
| 21 | The strange thing is that I ca n't say I was unhappy in the Service , and generally speaking I enjoyed myself , even coming to realise as time went by that it was an experience I would hate to have missed — and yet , for years afterwards I used to have nightmares about my life in uniform . |
| 22 | Just two points — the first is that I ca n't imagine what Ruby 's guardians are thinking of to let her brave the London traffic on a moped . |
| 23 | What it comes down to is that I ca n't handle happiness . |
| 24 | ‘ And I never get time to read , or think , or do anything worthwhile , and I 'm always so sleepy when I do get to the classes that I ca n't take in very much . |
| 25 | I give it to my husband so that I ca n't sell it if money gets low ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Actually , it was a terribly hard decision to make , because my album just came out two months ago here and the only negative thing is that I ca n't be here to promote it . |
| 27 | That I ca n't say . |
| 28 | But you see my parents work in the theatre and I 'm so used to moving from town to town that I ca n't afford to waste time . |
| 29 | However , now I have listened to their first Phonogram-fuelled '60s Baggle Taggle on vinyl , I discover that I ca n't even be arsed to find out where they live . |
| 30 | I would argue with the author on the merits of the wing-down as opposed to the crab cross-wind landing techniques , and feel that he should have concentrated less on right-hand tractor American rotation engines , but other than that I ca n't fault him , and would class the book as absolutely required for anyone aspiring to be a tailwheel instructor . |