Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [vb infin] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking as one of them , I can tell this person that I am a single mother , not from choice , but because my baby 's father scarpered as soon as I told him I was pregnant . |
| 2 | As a works convenor , I work along twenty shop stewards , and I can tell this Congress that the message that they 've given to me from the people from the people that have elected them , is that they 're sick and tired of the perpetual bleating of the T U C about how they have to abide by the laws , when the only laws that are there are the laws that are bringing this movement down . |
| 3 | That 's what they will be getting because I can tell this to the Tories , let's be quite honest that with the throw up the the people put their trust in the Tories and I do n't think they 'll ever do it again . |
| 4 | As one of his constituents , I can confirm this view . |
| 5 | Nor yet we ca n't no more hold their tide than I can hold this . |
| 6 | At least at least you know how you know if he says you can have this one or this one yeah cos the choice between one or the other and he says well I can fit this one immediately , but , this one I 've got ta order . |
| 7 | I faced that , and I can face this , thought Grainne . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not sure how long I can continue this way right now , ’ he muttered shakily . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ If I can pass this under her belly and get it fastened , ’ he said , ‘ pull with all your might , and use the horses as well . ’ |
| 11 | Wait a minute , I can reach this one . |
| 12 | I do not think I can bear this , thought Grainne , but even as the thought was framed , she knew that for someone it had had to be borne , there had been no escaping it , this bottomless dark pit , this vast endless night sea … |
| 13 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 14 | You really think I can do this fucking exhibition , work on all these projects , sit beside you and keep my filthy lesbian hands to myself ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I Can Do This ’ was her exit visa , a put-down to the backbiting London crews set to an infectious loop from The Whispers ' ‘ And The Beat Goes On ’ . |
| 16 | And instead of continuing to tell herself ‘ I ca n't get out , I 'm trapped , there 's nothing I can do ’ , I told her to reverse that and start thinking ‘ Well I can do this , I can do that ’ . |
| 17 | I can do this best by way of a personal anecdote , which might be called the Incident of the Taxman and the Philosopher . |
| 18 | And it gives a rudimentary account of how I can do this . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've accepted that I can do this for a certain amount of time . |
| 20 | So you 're quite happy with that , one hundred , two hundred , three hundred , four hundred , five hundred , six hundred oh I can do this standing on my head , right and you s you stop concentrating so much , and you 've gone up to , so that should be a seven hundred |
| 21 | It 's so repetitive marking your scale and people just lose concentration and I can do this you know and the next minute you you you 've gone up in twos instead of ones . |
| 22 | So I I think you get bored with some of this when it 's easy you 're looking at that and you think , Oh I can do this just put a W in front of tr . |
| 23 | And you get good at doing it then it 's , Hey I can do this . |
| 24 | Until I can do this , the entire complex cascade I have described in the previous section , and which has taken a decade of work to map , might simply turn out to be a consequence of a bad taste in the chick 's mouth and nothing to do with learning and memory at all . |
| 25 | when he , when they do discover it , when he does discover it for himself , he thinks , hey , I can do this and I invented this myself . |
| 26 | I can do this ! |
| 27 | Now , I want you to know that normally I can do this unaided . |
| 28 | But I can do this by myself . ’ |
| 29 | I can do this I can go radio four |
| 30 | I ‘ m confident I can do this although it will , obviously , mean extra effort on my part . |