Example sentences of "i can [adv] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can also tell him that urban aid of £9.7 million has been made available over the years for homelessness projects in Scotland . |
| 2 | Mr is very different we must all be protected , I 've worked out my bill as the same as this year because no way shall I spend seventeen and a half percent more money I shall be as careful as I can and I sha n't starve and I sha n't get cold now I 've worked out that the V A T on my fuel bill is eight hundred and eighty five pounds , I 'd delighted if Mr could perform the trick and I need n't pay it , on behalf of the Duke of Westminster , the Duke of Rutland , I think I can also thank him . |
| 3 | And I can also remember him standing in the hall with my mum and her saying , ‘ I am going out ! ’ and him , for some reason I will never understand , bursting into tears . |
| 4 | If I can say he 's smug because I 'm his sister , I can also say he 's a man of very high principles . ’ |
| 5 | I can just see him , waiting on the rank . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 7 | I can just see him tonight . |
| 8 | I can just imagine he 's probably hanging down ! |
| 9 | So he said I can honestly say he said I think he 's one of the worst I 've ever had down there . |
| 10 | I can honestly say he 's the sort of bloke I would sort of try not to get lumbered with at a party or somewhere like that I mean I do n't mind I did n't mind talking to her but I find her |
| 11 | I can usually tolerate him , nodding tactfully when I feel it is appropriate , and being carefully non-committal when he makes any sweeping statements . |
| 12 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 13 | He 's calling out to me now but I can hardly hear him because I 'm screaming so hard , wetting my pants as I squeeze the screams out . |
| 14 | I can hardly see him , he 's almost invisible . |
| 15 | I can hardly see him killing Gray . |
| 16 | ‘ I can hardly remember him , really . |
| 17 | I can hardly force him to kiss his grandmother when he so obviously does n't wish to . ’ |
| 18 | I can only assume he was under enormous strain |
| 19 | Even so , I understand he negotiated a substantial increase : an initiative on which I can only congratulate him . |
| 20 | I can only presume he means the cir-culation in his big toe after osculatory manipulation by his lover . |
| 21 | He enters me as fortress , I can only thank him from my battlements ; I am the pearl the knight must capture to win heaven and the drug that will detain him from his quest . |
| 22 | But she did not forget ‘ sitting on me grandad 's rocking chair combing his hair and I can always remember him sat there and me stood up behind him : I 'd comb his hair for hours and he just sat there and let me . ’ |
| 23 | I can always imagine him back again if I want to . |
| 24 | I can not give the hon. Gentleman the assurance that he seeks that I will agree with everything that the Edwards committee has recommended , but I can certainly assure him and the House that I will respond positively to the recommendations . |
| 25 | I can still picture him as I knew him , his sensitive , ascetic face etched with lines of pain but lit by his innate kindliness , his lean body in comfortable country tweeds . |
| 26 | I can still picture him standing in the centre circle wth both arms held above his head with a grin from East stand to west stand ! |
| 27 | He stayed with us for a while in Salisbury early in 1921 and I can still hear him thumping away on the piano singing his favourite song ‘ Signora ’ in a not very tuneful voice . |
| 28 | So I can still hear him talking to me when I 'm doing some of this stuff , especially when I 'm trying to sing — which has not been easy . |
| 29 | Run ! at me but the message is n't getting through , there 's something else in the way , something else pulling me back , back to Andy and back to that frozen river bank ; I hear Andy crying out and I can still see him reaching towards me and he 's about to slip away from me again and I ca n't do anything … but I can , this time I can ; I can do something and I will . |
| 30 | I can still see him sitting there at his desk , me standing in front , yelling at me how lucky I was , how I 'd been given everything , was this all I could do with it . |