Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i can [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An anorexic may tell her friends or parents , ‘ I 'd like to be slim ’ , and , if pressed for a reason , may reply along the lines of , ‘ So that I can wear nice clothes , date good-looking boys , and generally have a good time . ’ |
| 2 | I need to be fit so that I can stay awake in that Committee upstairs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Please let me know at least two days in advance so that I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 5 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 6 | She can try them on then , so that I can do any alterations that are necessary . |
| 7 | I mute them so that I can switch two wirelesses on at the same time , because if you have two on together they screech . |
| 8 | I have my camera with me so that I can take some photographs . ’ |
| 9 | You see , Miss Williams — or should I make that Fran , so that I can get used to calling you that ? — I could n't very well tell the police what had gone on last night , so I improvised . |
| 10 | I have bought a display book of transparent folders from the stationers so that I can put each pattern sheet into one of the pockets , together with a note of any information such as techniques used and any variations tried . |
| 11 | So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ? |
| 12 | So that I can put this sort of stuff somewhere frigging else . |
| 13 | Only if I can kneecap first . |
| 14 | Up till now you always had to bid er , for issues arising from changes of growth in the population , and that particularly begins to pick up the issue about the aging population in the county , so if I can welcome that . |
| 15 | Right , so if I can give each of you one of these because that 's what I want to use these |
| 16 | Ca can I just say one thing , though , if you me nip out , it 's not that I do n't want to listen to this , er , it 's in connection with the property er worries that er , Geoffrey said , I 've got to sign a lot of er , arm twisting letters , which I , they want me to sign today , so if I can take five minutes out to sign those , I hope you will not feel I 'm trying to er skive off , as it were . |
| 17 | so if I can get that . |
| 18 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've waited sixteen years to hear from my father and they can wait for as long as I can drag this thing out . |
| 20 | ‘ I never went to any formal acting school — in fact , I 've probably just been very , very lucky getting all the parts I have — though for as long as I can remember all I ever wanted to be was an actress , and to be in the Theatre . ’ |
| 21 | I sincerely hope that there is a MAJOR signing imminent — not that I can see any player replacing Mr Batty . |
| 22 | I go right up so I can see proper . |
| 23 | I think probably if I can get this in a box it 'll be a lot easier , cos it 's a lot of loose stuff , that 's a saddle , I 'll chuck that down , erm , I do n't know about these things , but er |
| 24 | Madam Deputy Speaker , erm there 'll be no need for any pruning from the chair because I had just mentioned the word banks at the very point that you madam speaker , got up and I can assure that er pruning would not be in order . |
| 25 | I am so sure of that now that I can ignore all the pressure to do something else but it does take strength . ’ |
| 26 | Now if I can get all three of them to work together , we 'll be alright … ! ' ’ |
| 27 | Now if I can get all three of them to work together , we 'll be alright … ! |
| 28 | Although I have mentioned the analogous process with optical film , as far as I can discover magnetic tape was first spliced to make a BBC radio programme . |
| 29 | I suppose there must be some records in a dusty file somewhere of how often the ground crews lost the race against time and had the aircraft and bombs blow up in front of them , but as far as I can recollect this never happened at Bourn , at least not while I was there , and we were thankful to get through each busy night without catastrophes of that kind . |
| 30 | As far as I can ascertain this notation still applies to some brands of wool , but when we come to synthetics , things are a bit different . |