Example sentences of "i can [vb infin] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark says that if it 's a fuel leak I can chuck down a lighted match , but I can tell he 's only joking . |
| 2 | I can tell he belongs to Rufus . |
| 3 | I can tell he 's quite taken with you , for some reason . ’ |
| 4 | From what I can gather he was as mad as a hatter , and really no good at all . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , from what I can gather he makes up fantasies … ’ |
| 6 | From what I can recall he just said he was concerned for the safety of the occupiers . |
| 7 | In any case , for all Mr Graham 's scepticism , I can remember he and I spending many evenings trying to put our fingers on the constitution of this ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 8 | King George , I can remember he had a beard . |
| 9 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |
| 10 | And I can say he had one of the strongest of all influences on me . |
| 11 | More than that , I think I can say he was loved by the public . |
| 12 | If I can say he 's smug because I 'm his sister , I can also say he 's a man of very high principles . ’ |
| 13 | But I can see he 's the worse for wear , the weathering the worker wreaks on himself . |
| 14 | He wants us to develop our own line of ready-bottled cocktails : I can see he 's got his eye on a new bottling plant ! |
| 15 | I do n't know , but I can see he 's very good . |
| 16 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 17 | But when I can see he 's not looking , I do so . |
| 18 | I can see he made it tough for you . ’ |
| 19 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |
| 20 | ‘ I can see he 's gone a little further than even you thought he would . ’ |
| 21 | obviously , but he 's , he 's gone down , I , I can see he 's gone down a little bit |
| 22 | In the novel I can believe he is saying such things , perhaps because I am hearing his voice in my head , in the privacy of my own mind ( I am thinking him ) and I am extremely relieved to hear him say them because his words bring to an end a certain kind of conflict between himself and Connie . |
| 23 | ‘ Now , if this young scoundrel has the moral fibre to wear this apparatus for one month , I can guarantee he 'll be dancing the polka with the best of them . ’ |