Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh det] i can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe if I played with another side I 'd get more recognition for what I can do . |
| 2 | Perhaps the slightest pleasure of which I can conceive is that of sucking a boiled sweet . |
| 3 | But perhaps it 's more a question of what I can do for you ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It is not a question of what I can bear , but of what I have to put up with . ’ |
| 5 | But now I 'm more together , I 've a whole lot of other areas in which I can express my feelings , I just hope the songs wo n't lose anything . |
| 6 | ‘ They were quite a part of the international scene in those days from what I can make out . |
| 7 | That is a good point on which I can give my hon. Friend not only a specific example , but an assurance . |
| 8 | The home in which we both live is a nonsense , and a nonsense from which I can see no way of ever extracting us . |
| 9 | Well I I want to have a big picture of England on the wall on which I can start to tick off bits as we get them . |
| 10 | I have a stove on which I can cook a dinner , and a paraffin stove for heating . |
| 11 | He laughs again , and as the light is fading we walk back to the village , past small boys running hurdy-gurdies ; he teaching me plant names for which I can find no translation . |
| 12 | But this talk about ‘ a frontier which is perceived from both sides ’ makes it sound as if in addition to the physical eye which I can use to get at the pin there is a sort of phantom eye in my skull with which I can see what goes on under my skin . |
| 13 | ‘ And I can certainly think of ways in which I can talk about this in such a way that Mrs Jones doing her washing up , Mr Brown driving to work , E H Os idling time in their offices , listen to the radio , can actually listen and enjoy it . ’ |
| 14 | I fully accept that if I want to know everything a top luthier knows then I should go away and make a serious study of the subject , but I would be quite happy to read a dedicated magazine each month from which I can learn about what 's new , who 's up to what , what new guitars are like to play etc. etc. and also the meaning of the industry 's technical terminology . |
| 15 | For instance , I can see that writing this book is a function of my job and as such is part of the responsibility of earning a living , but it is also an escape for me , a kind of haven to which I can take refuge from the hundred and one pressures that impinge on the practical business of living . |
| 16 | There 's a limit to what I can endure . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ There is practically no limit to what I can think of . ’ |
| 18 | Have you any advice on what I can do about it ? |
| 19 | Is there no means by which I can find Mr Randall ? |
| 20 | The manner in which the Prime Minister had handled the Westland issue within the Cabinet system , Mr Heseltine told the world 's press , was ‘ not a proper way to carry on government and ultimately not an approach for which I can share responsibility ’ . |
| 21 | I travelled to the plant to collect the guitar and was treated to a comprehensive tour of what I can confirm as an impressive facility of skilled and committed people in every department . |
| 22 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 23 | It is not a subject upon which I can speak with any moderation . ’ |
| 24 | Here , for example , is Daniel Leech-Wilkinson reviewing in Early music an a cappella recording of chansons by Guillaume de Machaut ( a recording in which I can declare a special interest ) : |
| 25 | Most planners and managers , though they pay lip-service to the idea that users should have some influence on the way services develop , do not in fact involve users very much in the planning process , and there is no service in Britain to which I can point at present were users get anywhere near having a significant influence . |
| 26 | I only take up with men for what I can get out of them . ’ |
| 27 | I think I 've come to the end of what I can do . ’ |
| 28 | Fleet standard is well illustrated with many photographs of the Dennis vehicles operated on local deliveries together with examples of the AFC flats and tankers used on long distance services when these were operated by Whitbread of which I can recall observing on their journey between London and the depots at Ashton-Under-Lyne and Stockport . |
| 29 | He does this gravely , perhaps fearing — with some justification from what I can see — that the whole thing might collapse like a car in a Laurel and Hardy movie , falling absolutely fiat on to the ground in its component parts . |
| 30 | I merely want the information upon which I can decide whether refurbishment can go ahead . |