Example sentences of "i can " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I can help further please do not hesitate to contact me on 081 840 7879 Peter Fabian Director of Fundraising |
| 2 | I am asked if I can be on standby if transport is needed ? |
| 3 | We agree to help and perhaps I can combine the two visits . |
| 4 | ‘ There is nothing I can do , ’ said the King , as she was dragged away , ‘ I can see those in charge , but it 's now in the hands of the Justice people . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There is nothing I can do , ’ said the King , as she was dragged away , ‘ I can see those in charge , but it 's now in the hands of the Justice people . ’ |
| 6 | I can not sleep at night … my heart is weak … my feet are heavy … |
| 7 | As he explained : ‘ My starting point has to be a vision , otherwise I can not do anything . |
| 8 | I can not doubt that this peculiar method which gave such valuable results in water-colour , influenced Cézanne to apply it at least to the early stages of his oil paintings , and that gradually it grew to be his habitual practice in the succeeding period . |
| 9 | I can not see the necessity of the shadow cast by a half-opened drawer in the kitchen table. , It is encouraging to find Fry underlining a point about critical writing — that with a description of a work of art it can be useful to be given an explicit account of how the critic responds . |
| 10 | I 'm sick of Portraits and wish very much to take my viol-da-gamba and walk off to some sweet village , where I can paint landskips and enjoy the fag-end of life in quietness and ease . |
| 11 | I can only hope that the bursar now inhabits a wholly healthy Oxford . |
| 12 | All I can tell you with certainty is that I , for one , have no self , and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self . |
| 13 | Having worked on interview panels with the now defunct ILEA I can say that the object has not been to block the drama school selection so much as to see that the grant is well justified . |
| 14 | I can only put it down to the strong classical emphasis which prevails in the courses offered in the UK , although many of the university drama courses in the USA do stage Shakespeare and the European classical authors . |
| 15 | It 's true that extracts such as Phoebe 's ‘ Think not that I love him … ’ from As You Like It ( Act 3 , Scene 5 ) or Viola 's ‘ 1 left no ring with her … ’ from Twelfth Night ( Act 2 , Scene 2 ) may be all too well known to a panel , but I can not agree with an adjudication policy that would ban these pieces from the audition . |
| 16 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 17 | I can get through the rest of the week if I know I 've got comin' here to look forward to . |
| 18 | I can remember everything . |
| 19 | But , yes — I read plays and I can see actors in the parts — I hope I can see what is suitable to their personalities . |
| 20 | But , yes — I read plays and I can see actors in the parts — I hope I can see what is suitable to their personalities . |
| 21 | Not that I can remember . |
| 22 | I can remember doing Bartholomew Fair at the Royal Court Theatre with the NYT and seeing all the scenery and lighting down on the stage at the end of the last performance and thinking how exciting it was to belong to the world of make-believe . |
| 23 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 24 | I can remember doing my Mick again from The Caretaker and for Shakespeare I did an outrageous choice of Cardinal Wolsey from Henry VIII , which I do n't think I shall ever be suited to playing . |
| 25 | Even the interview system is not an ideal one — once again you 're having to sell yourself — and if you 're a character actor like I am I can not show myself without being somebody else . |
| 26 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 27 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 28 | For when it comes it is more violent , more annihilating , more interminable than I can remember it , this feeling in the pit of the stomach , this physical pain and physical desire to retch , to want to get rid of something , of everything , to want to make all that is inside emerge and disappear , drain away , mingle with the rest of the detritus of the world , but it is not only physical , a physical sensation , he wrote , it is physical but it is also something else , not moral , not psychological , not spiritual , but something else , something other than the purely physical . |
| 29 | That is a fact , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , one of the few facts I can swear to , though I find it impossible to explain . |
| 30 | It must be a measure of my confidence , he wrote , that I can now say , in these notes , without any kind of trepidation , that this is the major project of my life , that beside it the rest pales into insignificance , if it was not insignificant anyway , beside it or anything else . |