Example sentences of "i can [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can tell Malmsey a mile off , I can . " |
| 2 | ‘ Then I can tell Alan . |
| 3 | See I can tell knocks . |
| 4 | I can tell school you been took poorly again . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There — must be some other way , ’ she voiced her thoughts out loud , and , as the thought occurred , ‘ I can tell Travis that I do n't want to see him again without going in for this — this charade . ’ |
| 6 | I can tell traders that there will be a big police presence . |
| 7 | I can tell traders that there will be a big police presence . |
| 8 | I can tell Fräulein Silber that I 'll be staying with her next week then ? ’ |
| 9 | Yes , I can reassure management that it is worth spending money on advertising , because I can demonstrate , with good numbers , that it produces results . |
| 10 | But I can reassure members that I 've spoken to the department , and they are committed to attempt to encourage disabled applicants for jobs and taking them on . |
| 11 | I can confirm Chairman that the District Council of course consult the County Council on access to all applications |
| 12 | And I can hold things here , really I can . |
| 13 | As it is I can hold conversations of about the standard that a three-year-old Parisian can manage ( well , a slightly retarded three-year-old ) so I can understand the problem a young horse has . |
| 14 | I can hold conversations of about the standard that a three-year-old Parisian can manage . |
| 15 | I can delegate authority over my son to a baby-sitter instructing him to make sure my son is in bed by a certain time . |
| 16 | But I am trying to work out when I can walk Paul Buttle 's circuit of the Lakes , devised especially for Outdoor Action . |
| 17 | Here again I can quote Graham Greene , though he was writing in this instance about the thriller , which is outside the scope of this book . |
| 18 | Yeah I 'll ask mum if I can miss school on Friday |
| 19 | At this stage perhaps I can emphasize Jan this is such a flexible concept that er we are anxious not to lay down any rigid rules as to how it works because if some things do n't work very well , they can be altered and if some things do prove to work well like the event we had at Felixstowe we can build on that success so quite consciously we 're not laying down any rigid rules as to how things go and we will look to review how officers we , we erm advise you as members in the light of practical experience . |
| 20 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 21 | At least that way I can stop thinking , words bloody words . ’ |
| 22 | Same when I 'm , when I 'm in Italy , I , I ca n't speak Italian very well , but when I 'm there a week , I pick up words very quickly and although I know my grammar is n't perfect , I can form sentences in a way that people do understand me , . |
| 23 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 24 | I can draw ma ? |
| 25 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 26 | Can you suggest why she behaves in this way and how I can prevent injury to everybody in the family ! |
| 27 | I think I can interpret Ken 's request for it to be done by the end of the week as meaning in his hands on Monday morning . |
| 28 | I do not want to play games in colour on my TV , I can do household accounts with a piece of paper and a pencil , I can learn languages easier from a book and a tape recorder , if I want information I can look it up and read it far faster than I can get it from a screen and I can turn back with a nip of the finger and read it again . |
| 29 | I can do juggling . |
| 30 | I can do juggling . |