Example sentences of "[conj] i can take " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I go abroad on holiday , I think : I 'm here for two weeks , I can either sit here fully dressed for a whole fortnight , or I can take my leg off and jump in the pool . |
| 2 | Anyway , rather than attributing it to my childhood , I prefer to believe that I was born into the world with greater or lesser faculties than other people and that I can take full responsibility for them . |
| 3 | I just feel that I can take credit , or blame , for what I do and have done . |
| 4 | I had a meal out with a friend recently , and now we 've got mother into hospital for a few weeks so that I can take my husband away on holiday . |
| 5 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 6 | And give me a pair of tongs so that I can take one out of the water at a time . ’ |
| 7 | The fact that I can take pleasure in each day as it comes , that I do n't churn myself up into a state of hyperactive neuroticism ? ’ |
| 8 | The only good news and the only real cheer that I can take from today 's events is that this is the last occasion on which such an announcement will be made by this Secretary of State or by a Conservative Government . |
| 9 | Is there any message of consolation that I can take to the very bruised people in Staffordshire , who watched with pride as the 3rd battalion received its new colours in September ? |
| 10 | I find now that I can take a little comfort for acting beyond my authority and without Don Bennett 's knowledge of what I was doing . |
| 11 | That is not a matter that I can take into consideration other than to say that I am satisfied that the proper figure for a multiplier for working life , er which I shall take in this case , is the multiplier of sixteen contended for by Mr . |
| 12 | I have my camera with me so that I can take some photographs . ’ |
| 13 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 14 | That I can take ? |
| 15 | So that I can take it off and if she gets in my way you can smack her with it ! |
| 16 | ‘ I 've had more of this than I can take . ’ |
| 17 | I like looking in shop windows so I can take my time if I 'm on my own . |
| 18 | I can literally push the bird out of the tree into a net or a box so I can take it home , because it ca n't see to fly off in the dark . |
| 19 | There are good theatres in London , all of them built before 1920 , and I can take pleasure in the design of the Wigmore Hall and Covent Garden . |
| 20 | The quickest way now is by way of that DANGER path you came along , and I can take you along there on my horse . ’ |
| 21 | But your ego 's getting massaged and I can take that . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not the sort — I 'm big and strong , and I can take everything they throw at me on my broad shoulders . |
| 23 | " 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 . " |
| 24 | erm , I understand that they might trade down , but equally there are a number and I can take you to the letters written to the if you like , are you saying you did n't realize that many of these people would have to budget , carefully budget |
| 25 | ‘ I had a lot more left at the end , ’ he added , ‘ and I can take several seconds off my time in a fast race in Rome . ’ |
| 26 | mm , I shall er get the other lot in and do that , do that first thing in the morning , get every thing cleared up , and then if you give me your pull overs , I can hand wash those and put them in the spin drier so you 'd better sort them out do you think you 'd of put some tassels in that pelmet ? , you know where the I 've got some spare one 's no , do n't you remember I went into and he gave me a piece of the trimming and I can take the tassels off |
| 27 | I can take it over there for the first service which is free anyway and I can take it back to Swansea for the others ca n't I ? |
| 28 | I ask Mr Jackson if I can take all my plants , and he looks at them doubtful like . |
| 29 | ‘ If I can take out a £420 loan and have ten years to pay it back , I 'll just pick up the cheque and go out and get ratted , ’ he said . |
| 30 | But , if I can take it ( given you 've stuck with me so far ) that I 'm preaching to the converted , then let me say that I think the GR-1 is a vast improvement on the GR-50 in terms of sound and ease of approach . |