Example sentences of "can i [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in my mind that this last outrage can not be allowed to pass , nor can I longer leave the handling of the affair to Prince Henry or his advisers . |
| 2 | Can I honestly reassure her that she will come to no harm in pursuing this phenomenon ? |
| 3 | Can I can I honestly make a suggestion ? |
| 4 | ‘ How can I honestly feel that way , knowing what he did to Mark — the way he treated him ? ’ |
| 5 | 2 ) Can I easily get a replacement cartridge/cassette for a tape echo machine ? |
| 6 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 7 | Can I please urge you to visit the exhibition hall during the course of congress . |
| 8 | So — can I please appeal to those of you ( teachers and class members ) who are having difficulty in deciding just what fund raising ideas to put into operation — 1985 is now upon us — and — Time Flies ’ . |
| 9 | Girls , can I please persuade you not to touch the dish , whatever else if you need slide it then use , you see that |
| 10 | Before we leave this Mr , can I please ask you if you accept what Mr has said in paragraph three of his statement B three double O two , the statement on behalf of the Parish Council ? |
| 11 | And can I please recommend you speak to your finance and admin people and they will say , now do n't expect to be saying , oh that 'll be no problem , because we na , we ai n't got a F and A like that , they 're always to caution , you know . |
| 12 | I found myself pleading — ‘ Oh do not go now I have found thee ’ Why can I not stay with thee forever ? ’ |
| 13 | Can I not take one step without falling on my face ? ’ |
| 14 | Can I not pick him up ? ’ |
| 15 | The professional 's main problem is always : how can I best help and advise these parents as they try to solve their problem ? |
| 16 | No how many contracts can I physically get if I want ? |
| 17 | Only by a stupendous act of imagination , only by actually putting myself in his skin in that room at that time can I even begin to attempt any sort of answer which moves by the smallest degree away from the natural responses of disgust and revulsion which all of us instinctively wish to express . |
| 18 | How can I even listen to this stuff , let alone join in ? |
| 19 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |
| 20 | Can I just mention that nobody 's read that but you 'll see the last sentence says that whatever you put on that tape the dictionary keep the copyright you see and that 's all right when you 're on conversations , but if you were to read in an and it was a short story , if that 's you know i if they reserve |
| 21 | Erm can I just mention then about the car park and the total cost of it now . |
| 22 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |
| 23 | Can I just mention that time is getting on and the Parish Council still has n't discussed this |
| 24 | Ooh can I just mention while we 're while we 're on about tables , well we 're not really on about it , but can I just mention it . |
| 25 | Ooh can I just mention while we 're while we 're on about tables , well we 're not really on about it , but can I just mention it . |
| 26 | Can I just change the picture in closing thinking of harvest is not just the harvest that we reap for ourselves , the benefits that we get , but Jesus said also , he said , you look on the fields , they 're white all ready to harvest . |
| 27 | Erm can I just go shapes and colours . |
| 28 | Can I just go over the page onto the number six , that says what we 've already done . |
| 29 | Can I just go back |
| 30 | Can I just go back on this I mean you say this is how we want it , does this |