Example sentences of "and i can [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 I believe that Wales is much better placed to ride out the worldwide recession than it has been and I can give the hon. Gentleman this pledge : I and my ministerial colleagues will continue to do everything that we can to attract investment to Wales .
2 That will be the case and I can give the hon. Member for Newham , North-East ( Mr. Leighton ) that undertaking .
3 So , on some sites you might say , no , I , well I can control the labour costs and I can control the er , plant usage , but I do n't buy the materials myself the only way I can affect them is by altering the wastage .
4 So er if you 're thinking of becoming a super model if there is anybody out there who 's thinking of becoming a super model perhaps you 'll give me a ring and er and I can break the bad news to you personally .
5 They will be studied carefully and I can assure the House that any necessary measures that are brought to our attention will be given very careful consideration .
6 Now that I know the genetic formula of my insects , I can reproduce them at will , and I can tell the computer to " evolve " towards them from any arbitrary starting point .
7 The safety gates have made a big difference , since I 've gotten them erm I 've got peace of mind for the stairs and I can answer the phone and I have n't got to like keep trying to pull them downstairs and do do different things .
8 ‘ If I feel the tension building up behind my temples , I hold the crystal tightly in my right hand and I can feel the pain slowly seeping away . ’
9 Every sixth or seventh day or so , in the morning , as we prepare to sack out , and go through the stunned routines of miring , of mussing ( we derange each eyebrow with a fingerstroke against the grain ) , Tod and I can feel the dream just waiting to happen , gathering its energies from somewhere on the other side .
10 my heart starts racing and I can feel the pulses in my neck and like my throat 's constricting .
11 Not my TV ; that 's off , and I can feel the floor resonance .
12 There 's a hole under the stairs in the Barracks I can get out of and I can open the door from the outside if Sam 's too big to squeeze through .
13 They 've given me an elbow crutch , and I can make the journey perfectly well now , if I thought the blasted train would stay on the lines , but there 's not much I could do once I got to Moila , is there , if I ca n't walk ?
14 Oh that copper , he said he , he said the thing is he said what you 've got ta do is give him as much shit and aggravation as you can possibly give him , keep him hot and keep him roasted up he said because what happens is he 's getting along , long and he 's thinking oh I can do this and I can do that and I can do the other , he said but if you can get your solicitor to keep him on his toes he ai n't got time to think about nothing , he said and if he has done that job himself , he 's laughing at the moment , I said well he must have done it
15 My house is right in the middle of Stratford-upon-Avon , and I can watch the street market from my window .
16 Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm
17 It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him .
18 After visiting the Public Houses , father and son could become quite violent with one another and I can remember the noisy encounters they had .
19 I did no work that I can remember — I know I was considered hopeless by my teachers and I was quite ready to believe I was hopeless — I can quite well remember keeping mice at the back of the classroom and I can remember the smell .
20 ‘ I remember this dodgy little manager we had at the time sent out five copies , and I can remember the one he sent to Sounds .
21 ‘ I remember this dodgy little manager we had at the time sent out five copies , and I can remember the one he sent to Sounds .
22 Yeah , and they did , they sent us a whole vanload of , of instruments and I can remember the , the evening we , we put all these instruments in the conference room there and the gang of enthusiasts arrived and , and they said and what would you like to play ?
23 They have n't got one and I 'll s er say this as I 've said everything on the wireless or anything , whatever I 've said I 'll say to their face , and I can slot the num perhaps they ca n't prove everything but you know it 's there .
24 Hello seven three one eight , no Roger 's off duty at the moment it 's Chris here erm , he should be , hang on I 'll just have to look at the watch roster and check up on precisely what his movements are , erm just look through tomorrow and I can find the right page in the roster here , er , two thir yeah , he 'll be on tower , so he 'll be in first thing tomorrow from about seven , seven o'clock onwards .
25 Cos then some of the other colours are gon na come through and I can put the little bit of gold on the top .
26 The File Manager obligingly scans the entire disk and lists all the files beginning with Q. I can see that the ones I want have been installed under D : \WINDOWS\QUOTE , and I can use the File Manager to look at them .
27 ‘ Yes , and I can play the mouth-organ as well , ’ said Dolly .
28 ‘ Louise ( 2½ ) likes to have her own activities , and I can enjoy the fact that I can participate too . ’
29 The record £700,000 buy said : ‘ I 've been missing chances and I can understand the fans ' frustrations but this goal should help . ’
30 It is strange and I can understand the criticism , but if I sold it , I 'd have no home and no money .
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