Example sentences of "i can [vb infin] what " in BNC.
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1 | I can tell what they are walking on , maybe ; perhaps whether they are going upstairs or downstairs . |
2 | I guarantee I can tell what kind of actor a person is if I hear them do ‘ Three Blind Mice ’ . ’ |
3 | I can tell what 's going to happen before it happens . |
4 | ‘ You know , Charlie my boy , from the way you says that I can tell what you really want is the dirt . |
5 | I can drink what she drank , inhale |
6 | Perhaps I can confirm what he said by reference to one statistic . |
7 | Well I can , I can confirm what my honourable friend says . |
8 | ‘ Is there a way I can record what I hear ? ’ |
9 | I 'm glad he 's gone — I can do what I like , now . ’ |
10 | I can do what I like on these pages , and nobody on earth can prevent me . |
11 | But I can do what I want , so perhaps it is possible to use one or two frames of a timpani shot to realize a particular moment in the music . |
12 | I 'm the chairman and I can do what I like . ’ |
13 | And to this she had answered , ‘ I suppose I can do what I like with my own money . ’ |
14 | I can do what I like . |
15 | I can do what I like . ’ |
16 | And although the sub-text of my increasing thinness ( which I chose to ignore ) read , ‘ I am doing this because I feel so helpless that not even my own body belongs to me ’ , the apparent text read to me , and increasingly to others , ‘ My body is my own and I can do what I like with it . ’ |
17 | I 'm nearly seventeen and I can do what I like . ’ |
18 | " But they are powerless to do anything ; this chapel was built for my mural paintings and I can do what I like . " |
19 | ‘ He said to me , ‘ Look , you black bastard , I can do what I bloody well like ’ , ’ Roberts says . |
20 | ‘ I can do what I like , and I intend to stay with you , unless you object . |
21 | I like to think I can do what she does , but perhaps not as well . |
22 | " I can do what I bloody like . |
23 | But you can do what I ca n't do , I can do what you ca n't do . |
24 | Sue Parker — mother of Julian , who 's only eighteen , by the way , ’ added Leonora with a wicked little grin , ‘ is keen to go into partnership with her , and I can do what I do just as easily after I 'm married as before . ’ |
25 | And er I thought I can do what I did at forty , and I did it , but look what I 've got now . |
26 | I paint my nails , I do what I wa I can do what I wan na do . |
27 | ‘ I can guess what happened . ’ |
28 | ‘ I think I can guess what that question might be . |
29 | ‘ I can guess what you want , but it wo n't take a couple of hours . ’ |
30 | ‘ I can guess what you have in mind , ’ he said drily . |