Example sentences of "i can [vb infin] [pron] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I might do the tennis stuff for three or four years and decide I can do it sleepwalking and turn to something I really care about and like to pursue , which is politics . ’ |
| 2 | I can do it standing on my head , although I wo n't . |
| 3 | So I can do it walking home ca n't I ? |
| 4 | Yes , ok I 'll just , I can , I can do it winding up |
| 5 | I can feel them getting hungrier and hungrier , then we all sit down to eat , or ‘ greeze ’ as they say down South . |
| 6 | She does not register the gesture , but I can feel her watching as we go . |
| 7 | ‘ I can feel myself unwinding . |
| 8 | I can feel myself trembling . |
| 9 | I can feel myself going stale . |
| 10 | I can feel you trembling . ’ |
| 11 | I can feel it moving ! ’ |
| 12 | There is always something delirious about language — the burgeoning , bubbling Remainder that has been left out of the dry official structure comes crashing through my best-formed sentences — so I can feel it speaking through me . |
| 13 | Yeah , and you , that taste there 's always a taste in my mouth and then I can feel it pushing its way up . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's going , ’ says Hal , ‘ I can feel it going . ’ |
| 15 | Out of sight of the child you pass the coin from the left to right hand and continue rubbing with the right hand only saying ‘ I think I can feel it coming ’ until eventually you say : ‘ There it is , it 's come back ! ’ |
| 16 | As I lie on my bed I can feel it coming in the window . |
| 17 | I can feel it coming . |
| 18 | ‘ I can feel it turning , ’ he claimed obstinately . |
| 19 | I think I can smell something burning … ’ |
| 20 | I can smell something burning . |
| 21 | But if I can leave it running and it runs out it will suit me down to the ground . |
| 22 | But I can sense her blossoming into that relaxed wakefulness you can get in the quiet hours . |
| 23 | Thing is that he 's in er he 's in such a pickle , he 's doing what I can understand him doing it cos I 'd do it , he 's kind of just putting it off having to sort it out . |
| 24 | Well for what they see I can understand him asking Joan and Graham erm maybe they 've got ta watch how much they 're |
| 25 | It is quite a commitment and I can understand anyone having misgivings . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , I can understand you hanging on here instead of coming back to Berlin . |
| 27 | I can understand you saying that . |
| 28 | I can imagine them doing it now for all it 's worth . |
| 29 | Undergraduates of moderate ability do not much like being asked to choose between differing judgements on the same text ; I can imagine them becoming confused and resentful if they were asked to choose between different critical approaches and all their attendant ideological baggage . |
| 30 | I can imagine him making the statement , but I ca n't imagine that he meant it sufficiently to make it worth printing . |