Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] i can [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Many of the Dublin deaf have a smattering of BSL and can talk to me better than I can talk to them .
2 You 're just trying to amuse me — to set it up for me so that I can walk up and down the room gasping and shouting ‘ I do n't believe it ! ’
3 ‘ I sometimes think you only invite me so that I can pay the bill . ’
4 Could you tell me so that I can find the statement .
5 I have my camera with me so that I can take some photographs . ’
6 I mute them so that I can switch two wirelesses on at the same time , because if you have two on together they screech .
7 Another possibility for the seminar is that if you want to bring some notes along to a sort of , if you show me a if you dream up hypothetical questions and then put a plan to answer them so that I can skim down it in about a minute or two .
8 We shall have to try and swap seats with someone so that I can put my feet in the aisle . ’
9 So again there are n't many things that do complete , swimming I think I far as I can see is the only one that does , but then again that depends on how you use the swimming , it , it just , just cos you bathes every week does n't necessarily mean that it does do it for you , it depends what you do , okay ?
10 I owe them more than I can say .
11 I think Shakespeare appeals to me more because I can understand it .
12 ‘ Tell me how to please you so that I can court you . ’
13 ‘ I hear you better when I can see your face ’ is a fundamental truth that can be repeated in different ways according to circumstances : ‘ Please would you repeat that .
14 To say instead , ‘ I hear you better if I can see your face ’ is more positive .
15 Because I do miss you Elsie I miss you more than I can say .
16 " I shall have to take you back with me to Vienna , dear Tilda , yes , I 'm sorry , I sha n't be able to manage without you , fortunately you 're so small they wo n't miss you here and I can take you for a Glücksbringer . "
17 One so that I can go up there and sit and read and erm sit and knit and er learn to type
18 Whenever I see coloured people in Porteneil , buying souvenirs or stopping off for a snack , I hope that they will ask me something so that I can show how polite I am and prove that my reasoning is stronger than my more crass instincts , or training .
19 I can remember , we used to have like mints in a bowl , lovely mints did n't we and erm potat , and we used to have the mints just in the bowl and I remember boiled potatoes , you remember erm , you know like , when we , when we were coming like and I can see everything now and I can see me little bowl and everything
20 In one way life for me is difficult under these circumstances because , as I said , there 's no one really that I can talk to .
21 She says ; It is something there that I can see of her , something I would not have had if she had not existed .
22 I 'd rather have something there that I can look at and take hold of ideas , and actually get to grips with something that 's actually there .
23 ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’
24 you know is there somewhere that I can get the subjects that I need in , in each
25 By the way , is there somewhere where I can freshen up ? ’
26 That document — I now quote from it so that I can make certain that I am not misleading the House — states : ’ Special software packages are being developed commercially and will be available before April 1991 .
27 So nice and slowly , do n't rush it , read it so that I can understand it nice and clearly , sshh , listen
28 Your face is so beautiful , I 'm thinking of finding a mask for it so that I can get through the day …
29 It 's about 1½ ″ below my shoulders and I am trying to grow it so that I can have a style that 's cut straight across the bottom .
30 I do n't want to throw it away if I can help it .
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