Example sentences of "[conj] i can [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Not that I can remember at all . |
| 3 | I want something that that I can look at that for . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The company , the future , Jamie … now you 've taken that burden from me , and I can relax at last , knowing it 's all safe . ’ |
| 6 | Erm if I can add at this time there is in fact an error on the final table on that er |
| 7 | I think if I can look at these notes until tomorrow , ’ she looked questioningly at Dr Greene , who nodded , ‘ I need n't take up any more of his time now . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Matilda , so far as I can gather at this early stage , is also a kind of mathematical genius . |
| 9 | The concept is an enormous one for twelve-year-olds to grasp with any sense of reality , for many children of that age would regard it as fun if their family had to go away to new lands — just as I can recall at that age receiving the news of the outbreak of the Second World War with great joy ! |