Example sentences of "i can [adv] [vb infin] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her voice is so low I can scarcely hear what she is saying . |
| 2 | ‘ I can well imagine what it is . ’ |
| 3 | And I can just remember what John Major said about the local authorities who 'd er got into B C C I . |
| 4 | If I can just summarize what it found . |
| 5 | If I can just endorse what Stewart was saying the Parish Council talked to me as their consultant for a while and said look it seems that that with the with the actions of the er County Council writing to the Secretary of State to preempt the call-in procedures and the attitude of the District Council that this thing might well get local planning permission . |
| 6 | I can just imagine what it 's gon na look like in a few years when it gets |
| 7 | Certainly I can not deduce which goals to pursue from the facts to be faced ; but will it not be a causally necessary condition of obeying ‘ Face facts ’ that I let myself be moved , at least incipiently , in the direction in which the facing of the facts would cause me to move ? |
| 8 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
| 9 | I can not think what his poetry would be like . ’ |
| 10 | I can not think what the Riding , but not only the Riding , will be without him . |
| 11 | ‘ I can not think what 's come over Brian , ’ she said . |
| 12 | I can not express what a privilege it has been transcribing it and entering your very mind and spirit in the throes of creativity , as it were . |
| 13 | I can not tell what will come from this day 's work . ’ |
| 14 | Up to now , British Telecom , sometimes attacked , sometimes praised in this magazine , has kept a dignified , appreciative , affronted , hurt or tactical silence , I can not tell which . |
| 15 | ‘ I can not associate what he said with the action of killing . |
| 16 | Frustrated I can not land what I want to do , and do n't want to settle for the wrong thing . |
| 17 | I have in my possession a letter from one of the RAF 's most revered names , a great wartime C-in-C and possibly one of the RAF 's foremost Chiefs-of-Air-Staff and , in peacetime , a dear friend of mine these many years , who said of the Bennett appointment : " I can not understand what Harris was thinking of making that airline fellow a Group Commander … " |
| 18 | I can not understand what pleasure they derive from it . ’ |
| 19 | I am her pupil , but I can not read what I have written , because the lights have just gone out and the glow of the electric fire has dwindled to nothingness . |
| 20 | I can not envisage what the circumstances will be in 20 years ' time . |
| 21 | ‘ I can not believe what has happened . |
| 22 | The developments that occurred : the extraordinary behaviour of certain sections of the press ; and the later career of the Duke of Windsor , provoked in me both short-term and long-term disillusionment ; but I do not intend to go into any further detail here , though I can not repudiate what I said . |
| 23 | I can not foretell what proposals it will contain , but without an effective ceasefire no one can be deployed . |
| 24 | I can not say what that last sentence signifies except that , as is apparent elsewhere in the book , Mr Nikiforuk dislikes rich people . |
| 25 | ‘ But I can not say what I am not . ’ |
| 26 | PAMELA : I can not say what you ought to do , but only beg you will not ruin me and if you think me virtuous let me go to my poor parents . |
| 27 | I can not say what it was in Heather that Dr Kingdom found so enthralling . |
| 28 | I can not say what I saw there . |
| 29 | At this stage , I can not say what the link will be , although I can say that it will be a dedicated , high-quality link . |
| 30 | ‘ I can not say what he actually said because it was so bad , and it went on for so long . |