Example sentences of "i can [adv] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Walsall Wood erm as I say , we used to have er two big bags full on a Fri Friday and then in the week we could go up but you 've got your bread but , you know , yo the men would be , I can just picture them with their little , all this pretty coloured paper would all be in little piles and when there were no customers , they would be wrapping the rice , the raisins , the currants , all in these pretty papers you see and they knew , I mean you 'd ask them for currants and they never sort of knew , I did n't quite understand how they could pick by , it 'd be by the paper you see . |
| 2 | I can just see them : Mum with a cottage cheese salad lying uneaten on her plate — Dad in the office amid piles of unread scripts , unable to concentrate for fear that his darling ? hated ? infuriating daughter lies at the bottom of the Thames , the Severn , the Atlantic … |
| 3 | ‘ I can just see them , ’ said Garvin , ‘ when I go along . |
| 4 | Yeah I can just see them in the rear mirror . |
| 5 | And er horses Oh I could saddle a horse and r I can ride a horse , no not racing horses , you know , but I can just ride them . |
| 6 | I can just put them down , but I do n't awfully like gladioli when they down I do n't think they look like . |
| 7 | I can even compare them with nationally agreed criteria and say how well they have done , and grade them against each other when they leave me , if I must . |
| 8 | Indeed I can easily replace them with a stocking bag full of charcoal which can be regularly changed . |
| 9 | She somehow manages to put invitations so cleverly that I can hardly refuse them — will I advise her about a job move , will I try out a new restaurant with her before she entertains a client there ? |
| 10 | I can now move them quite well although they 'll never be perfect . |
| 11 | Anyone who considers such trivial questions as humour or literary merit is clearly living in a previous century and I can only refer them to the motto of the Punch accountancy department , which is : ‘ If they can read , we do n't want 'em . ’ |
| 12 | I can only relieve them by this . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The compositions are always so bad I can only face them if I do so right away . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I think someone must have taken it and I can only ask them to bring it back to me , ’ said Mrs King , of Egglestone Way . |
| 15 | I do not remember if the Babies descended , were re-named , and started their laborious struggle to the light over again ; I can only trace them in their perpetual slow motion upward . |
| 16 | I have to look after two dear little boys , but these days I can only see them growing up to behave so cruelly towards women . |
| 17 | I can always spot them . |
| 18 | Well I did n't know when I 'd see you see so I thought I can always leave them at Dorothy 's for you . |
| 19 | I can always make them change it … ’ |
| 20 | But I can certainly ask them questions about their dealings with Mr Bond . ’ |
| 21 | I can still make them work and that , it 's just like they ai n't mine . |
| 22 | I can still give them a run for their money . |
| 23 | I can still hear them . ’ |
| 24 | Er I can still order them , I mean if you want to take it around , you can take it and |
| 25 | I can never tell them apart . ’ |
| 26 | your letters look nice and neat , mine are always scraggy , I can never understand them . |
| 27 | ‘ I do know about masses and light , even if I can never get them right . |
| 28 | And I thought : now my eyes are open and I can never close them again . |
| 29 | Er I remember one fellow er I think I can safely mention them now but they 're both dead anyway . |
| 30 | I can almost hear them . |