Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So would you like to just read what you 've written there so that , because I do n't think everyone can see , and I think this is |
| 2 | And there 's three girls in this netball and do you think I can think their names of us ? |
| 3 | I 've made a complete fool of myself and I do n't think I can bring myself to ask what I came to . " |
| 4 | I do n't think I can make that either but er |
| 5 | Well I do n't think I can feel like I suppose that were Victoria was n't it , ringing nine nine nine they forgot to ask |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think I can talk any more about your husband . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think I can stand young people . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't think I can stand much more . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think I can stand it any more . |
| 10 | I c I do n't I do n't think I can tell you the lot it 's |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think I can tell when you 're acting . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't really think I can tell you — it 's so private , you see . |
| 13 | Another asked for the name of a good travel agent , while a third declared : ‘ I do not think I can bear another five years of Andrew Lloyd Webber ; I 'm off . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think I can bear to . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think I can bear it , Dorothy , ’ she said in a choked voice . |
| 16 | Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a long story and I do n't think I can bear to tell it again just now . ’ |
| 19 | Then she breathes out and gives a real smile — one of those big things that brightens her face like a starburst — and I see she 's been frightened , and I sigh , and suddenly I 've got a lump in my throat and I 'm trembling and I do n't think I can move away from this wall . |
| 20 | I 've hurt my back too — I do n't think I can move . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I just do n't think I can sit out there and watch it all . |
| 22 | " But I do n't think I can swim , Hazel . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you think I can watch another woman become your bride ? |
| 24 | I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast . |
| 25 | How many times have you sat down at your machine and thought ‘ I do n't think I can cope with this ’ and within the next five minutes all the knitting has been on the floor ? |
| 26 | it , I did n't and I felt I 'd have no friends around where I lived and you know , I 'd always be alienated , I 'd always be home later and I said to my mum I do n't think I can cope with it , so she said right then you do n't go ! |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think I can face that . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , she still writes to me , ’ Harry answered Cora-Beth 's question , ‘ but the way I feel about you is different and I do n't think I can explain . |
| 29 | How much cheesecake do you think I can eat ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think I can eat any more , ’ said Ianthe . |