Example sentences of "i can [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I can tell nothing , ’ Huy said . |
2 | I can tell something is wrong and that you 're dying to spoil things for me . |
3 | As a postscript to my days in Port Said , perhaps I can tell one brief , romantic story . |
4 | People will show great sympathy , I can tell everybody that . |
5 | Creggan looked at her and then , mantling his wings , glared angrily at the world outside the Cages , a glare that took in the Zoo , the Men , the trees , the wind and even the sky , and said loudly , ‘ I can face anything , anything ! ’ |
6 | ‘ I can face anything if you 're with me , ’ he said . |
7 | ‘ As long as I 'm with you , I can face anything , ’ she said simply . |
8 | LADY DAVERS : If I bear this I can bear anything . |
9 | I can detect nothing in the evidence , even on the debtor 's version , to suggest that Marshalls misled or took advantage of him in any way . |
10 | ‘ If you need help , sir , I can fetch someone either from Thornfield Hall or from Hay , ’ I offered . |
11 | You must understand that I can do nothing further for you . |
12 | I can do nothing for you , and have nothing to give you . ’ |
13 | There is even a saying that indicates how poorly cleaning is regarded ‘ Well , if I can do nothing else , I can always sweep the roads ’ . |
14 | ‘ I can do nothing — nothing . ’ |
15 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't like wasting my energy worrying about things I can do nothing about , ’ Sally said matter-of-factly . |
16 | ‘ I can do nothing without their approval . ’ |
17 | I can do nothing here now . |
18 | ‘ Personally I can do nothing because I have no money myself at all . ’ |
19 | I can do nothing to help except give them good references and a few quid to tide them over . |
20 | ‘ Flora , ’ Anna said , pushing her fringe off her forehead , ‘ I can do nothing about your flute . |
21 | " I can do nothing until you are there " ( 19:22 ) . |
22 | ‘ I can do nothing for these engines here , in this storm ! |
23 | " I can do nothing for that boy . " |
24 | ‘ Sir John , I can do nothing with you . |
25 | And I can do nothing for you because I 've come to rescue and seek that which is lost , and which is aware of it . |
26 | Personally I can do nothing because I have no money at all . ’ |
27 | Unfortunately I can do nothing about the first two but it is my responsibility to protect your salary so that your wife and family are looked after . |
28 | Personally , I can do nothing because I have no money myself at all . ’ |
29 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
30 | So if I can do one run and then photocopy it . |