Example sentences of "[pron] can [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can tell by the way people look at him . |
| 2 | I can tell by the way she looks at them . |
| 3 | I am not very sure what 's wrong with her but I can tell by the way they start discussing the weather when I come into the room that it must be Women 's Trouble . |
| 4 | She is upset by the anger in my voice , I can tell by the way she rattles my cup . |
| 5 | And I can tell from a half-hour 's converse with him that he 's in good hands . |
| 6 | I can tell from the way you 're sparking at me like a green-eyed cat that there 's nothing you 'd like more . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know what I weigh now , but I can tell from the mirror and the clothes that I wear that there is , sadly , more of me than there was . |
| 8 | Within seconds it stops and I can tell from the direction of the line that the bait is lying in the thick of the roots . |
| 9 | And I can confirm ( for the benefit of Glenn , I think it was ) that Howard Wilkinson is not a member either , as far as I can tell from the list . |
| 10 | I can confirm as a matter of fact that the Scottish National party did not join the convention , although some distinguished individuals , no doubt at some political disadvantage to themselves , were prepared to do so . |
| 11 | Er I 've been able just this week to set up a little er programme at er at work whereby er I have a list of all the newspapers and T Vs and radio stations on a file , and I can tap in a press release , press the button and it would fax them all one after the other , to the various interested bodies . |
| 12 | I CAN sympathise with the businessman who stands to lose a Pounds 30 million contract because BR delays repeatedly made him late for meetings . |
| 13 | The only thing I can recollect from the briefing in relation to the operation and the way that was , it was erm o it was executed . |
| 14 | I call him that so I can shout down the street after him and those bastards in the Race Relations office ca n't touch me for it . ’ |
| 15 | She said no more and as soon as they arrived at Broom House she said , ‘ No need to take me right up to the house — I can walk up the drive . ’ |
| 16 | I can walk down the road without my legs even touching — it 's absolutely marvellous . ’ |
| 17 | If , at the end of several hours ' watching , I can walk into the Guitarist studio and sit behind the desk with any confidence at all , then I shall declare the whole operation a complete success . |
| 18 | There is no way in which I can vote for a guillotine which so severely curtails debate in Committee . |
| 19 | I can swear to every pie I have swallowed , to every cup of sack I have gulped , to the few good women I have met and , thankfully , to every bad woman I have slept with . |
| 20 | But there is a little something I can detect in the atmosphere between those two that might or might not have something to do with the murder of Egan by Place . ’ |
| 21 | After the stories that circulate about Civil Service chicanery , I can attest to the professionalism of my team . |
| 22 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 23 | Oh I can stop in every night me |
| 24 | ‘ I can do with a man of spirit about me . |
| 25 | ‘ Anything else I can do for the moment ? ’ |
| 26 | I do n't claim any great originality or depth , but it is the best I can do at the moment . |
| 27 | The best I can do as a manager is a combination of threatening , cajoling and being nice to everyone who can help to give my act the best possible shot . |
| 28 | One of my greatest frustrations is having to tell my electors , in correspondence and personally , that there is nothing I can do about a proposal because a decision has already been taken somewhere else — albeit by ministers , one of whom is a Member of the House — that there is nothing that anyone can do because the decision has been taken outside these shores , so there is no point in writing to me . |
| 29 | ‘ I have it serviced when I can do without a car for the day , ’ he says . |
| 30 | You see , I find paragraph end markers to be useful , but I can do without the rest of the clutter . |