Example sentences of "and [adv] i can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where is Andrew ? ’ and eventually I can tell them and Mrs Gould gives a strange little shuddering cry and Mr Gould tells her to get the people in the house and phone for an ambulance and runs away down the path towards the river with the four Golden Labradors barking excitedly behind him . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm a storyteller , and so I can show readers that people think in a certain way , and suggest to readers that under those circumstances they might thing in the same way . |
| 3 | When we move in here , we get this guy come along to look at it , he say well this machine the er the Germans erm they 've really the pump is th is really easy to go , and so I can change your pump for you but l in your washing machine washing machine . |
| 4 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 5 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 6 | I have explained to pupils that I do not know ‘ the answer ’ and so I can share the excitement of working out a problem with them . |
| 7 | I need to get myself back on my feet and forget all this and get it all sorted out and so I can live my life again . |
| 8 | I 'm a practical sort of person and perhaps I can refer to my area of work as the President said since nineteen eighty four I 've concentrated on health and safety and workplace legislation . |
| 9 | People will need shops , and perhaps I can build a hotel too , and some more houses . ’ |
| 10 | We agree to help and perhaps I can combine the two visits . |
| 11 | And perhaps I can invite your lovely friend to visit my ship , so that she and I might also become acquainted … ? ’ |
| 12 | And perhaps I can tie that in with the , the comment from Mr about people from having loved ones in I am bound to say that this has n't been a major feature of our er er |
| 13 | Now I must return to my people , for their molecular codes are suffering indigital chancre , and only I can save them . |
| 14 | I think my strengths are my pace , my strength in the air and obviously I can score goals . |
| 15 | And it 's come up straight away with record number two which is all about spaniels and obviously I can keep on going . |
| 16 | And anyway I can get them in the sale if I choose to fight my way up to London I can get a Liberty tie for about twelve pounds . |
| 17 | And thus I can say that both on the moment of this resolution and for some time afterwards I had more sublime and happy feelings than at any former period of my life . ’ |
| 18 | It was a special feeling to score , and hopefully I can carry on like that . ’ |
| 19 | Er and hopefully I can attract them to that . |
| 20 | And what I 'm going to get out of it , well I hope it 's a step towards me obtaining a degree at the Open University and hopefully I can get promotion eventually . |
| 21 | and also I can do a little bit of a fiddle |
| 22 | ‘ That way you can get a good look at the château as we approach and also I can have the pleasure of your company . ’ |
| 23 | Right and now I can differentiate that . |
| 24 | This restriction was lifted after a while , and now I can wear jeans again . |
| 25 | One person could pull G-FUGA from its hangar ; it is self-contained and now I can start , taxi and fly it . |
| 26 | ‘ Before my operation I could n't walk 30 yards and now I can work full-time and play 30 holes of golf , ’ he said . |
| 27 | You 're the toast of the IMP backroom boys , and now I can see why ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 29 | It would seem that we now have four hundred thousand pounds available that was n't apparent before , and that 's come from the Department of the Environment , and that is enough for me to say well , we 've got something out of it , it was n't a fiasco or a waste of time and now I can rejoin the Conservative group with some degree of credibility . |
| 30 | erm Would you like me to give you information , or would you like to ask me questions , and maybe I can try and answer them , I mean , it 's just as you wish . |