Example sentences of "i can [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you say so sir , the only thing I can suggest is that fact that er that the noise the door opener was making and the fact I opened the door very shortly afterwards , he can only assume the door opener worked . |
| 2 | So all I can suggest is this : once you reach that ‘ hole ’ you mention , keep battling on . |
| 3 | Perhaps the slightest pleasure of which I can conceive is that of sucking a boiled sweet . |
| 4 | The only practical flaw I can find is some faintly uneven string-spacing at the nut , making the top E string too close to the B string and too far from the edge . |
| 5 | I can get is that , I have to borrow about , be about fifty pound , summat like |
| 6 | The best I can say is that Boy looked something like , or had something like the feel of , Paul Newman when he 's playing the character christened Chance Wayne in that Tennessee Williams film . |
| 7 | All I can say is that being called a sex symbol is better than being called a haddock . |
| 8 | If anybody has any absolutely yes I 'll be quite happy I mean to me chairman of the trust or with management committee to meet anybody if they feel that they 've got some concern they wish to discuss I 'm quite happy to do that all I can say is that nobody has actually wro wro wrote to me or rang me to say they 'd like to meet to discuss that and I 'm quite happy to do that . |
| 9 | Well all I can say is that , erm Sir Simon was being extremely modest when he said that the development of this company er , has been due er , entirely to the executive directors . |
| 10 | All I can say is that in a period of two years erm of five , in that time there was five sets of redundancies at erm Hatfield , there are two occasions we were told that they went through it and agree with the unions that there 'd be no more for twelve months and one occasion there was another chap in three months , so if you believe anything that the P A E people there , you know , you really want to wear dark glasses but could I ask you a question , I understand that there is something going on at work with Richard at and my guess is , is , erm that sort of job which we are , there is some form of development plans going forward . |
| 11 | All I can say is this . |
| 12 | The only problem that I can see is that fact that many books can not be taken home and that many sources can not be photocopied . |
| 13 | So er , at the moment they 're saying all I can see is that er , we would have to use up the whole of our balance , that 's sixteen thousand and the twenty four thousand arrears . |
| 14 | It 's all dark and all I can see are these metal cages all round . |