Example sentences of "i can [vb infin] on the " in BNC.

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1 And s so I can draw on the areas
2 The best deal I can do on the airfares is £870 — this includes a small fee for myself for the administration .
3 For instance the project will assess children 's understanding of the following situation : at a pedestrian crossing I can rely on the motorist stopping if I know that he has seen me , but I can not rely on it if I know that he has not seen me .
4 Let's seen how many buttons I can press on the video and radio !
5 I can sleep on the outside and he can sleep a against the wall .
6 This one I can answer on the spot !
7 I can start on the on the changing room .
8 Well I can check on the bottle .
9 she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship .
10 I can count on the fingers of one hand the days when the weather was pleasant during my ten months there .
11 I can count on the fingers of one hand all the journalists I have met who are committed to telling the truth about my field as well as they can discover it , No one could organise censorship so effectively in America , so the distortions in the press must reflect countless more or less independent decisions by editors and reporters which lead to the perpetuation of a misleading and intellectually fallacious understanding of a serious scientific subject .
12 I think I can count on the fingers of one hand the men I know who were desperate to experience fatherhood and regarded a woman 's desire for children as paramount when it came to choosing a partner .
13 My vet — an older man who lived out on the Downs — has just retired , so I 'll try both your practices which will be to my advantage , because when one practice is too busy to come out at once then I can call on the other . ’
14 ‘ So I can turn on the gas , ’ said Apricot .
15 Sixth , yes , I can come on the Friday .
16 I can lie on the floor , reach up in a rather contorted way and focus it myself , rather than shouting instructions to somebody else , as you have to with a more conventional one . ’
17 ‘ I 'll see what value I can get on the street in town for these and I 'll leave you this bag on the basis that if I ca n't dispose of them , I 'll be back for it . ’
18 ‘ Now I can concentrate on the Christmas cake rush .
19 All that I can say on the fixed link between Euston and the new complex — because I mentioned that a number of options are still being considered — is that it will be a dedicated link .
20 There 's a grand bit ham I can see on the tables down there .
21 Er , I can see on the top there but there 's lots there and there .
22 Any , hang on Anth oh the green one is for what I can see on the picture , I think the green one is Sleepy
23 The only thing that I would ask everybody in Oxfordshire is to write to our M P's here because er yes it 's true that I do n't know what the returns are from last night 's voting , but I do know that er the only local MP that I can see on the voting on the last occasion was John Patten , here in Abingdon , and he voted no .
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