Example sentences of "[pron] can [verb] [det] [noun] " 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 | I can confirm that Chairman there are currently no proposals to er restrict the increment of progression . |
| 4 | As one of his constituents , I can confirm this view . |
| 5 | Now then , let's see put your feet straight on the footrest so I can tuck these things over . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not sure how long I can continue this way right now , ’ he muttered shakily . |
| 7 | ‘ There is , ’ he said , ‘ no way I can reach that green in two . |
| 8 | ‘ I have to tell you I can bear such insults , ’ Mr Kinnock told a 500-strong crowd that spilled out of the Pontllanfraith Leisure Centre into a field outside . |
| 9 | It must have been a savage attack ; Boswell had offended Johnson 's pride and held him up to ridicule ; now Johnson retaliated with such force that Boswell says , ‘ though I can bear such attacks as well as most men , I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company , that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort . ’ |
| 10 | By arriving early in the evening I can fish both periods , and it would be time-consuming and much more tiring to get out of bed in the middle of the night to arrive at the water before first light and to stay until 1.30 the following morning . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | I can draw some sides just like I can put I could make a just draw neatly in the teams bi on a big piece of paper that 'll make it look really good , . |
| 13 | Anyway I have a team of red filth which could pass for the Busby scum so now I can re-enact those battles of yore ! |
| 14 | I 'm er I 'm gon na erm , I might see if I can record some conversation on a bus , but I do n't know . |
| 15 | I can do that ampersand that or those two cells have got range names the range names . |
| 16 | Well , he 's doing it , last wee I would n't mind doing the Wednesday actually cos I can do that sort of you know , student discos , you know , so |
| 17 | Paul recognized this when he wrote : ‘ I can do all things through Christ , who strengthens me ’ . |
| 18 | This is the nature of Christian joy through suffering , which reconciles the negative with the transcendent love of Christ , enabling us to say , like Paul the apostle : ‘ I can do all things through Christ , who strengthens me . ’ |
| 19 | Then he explained how he had found this incredible contentment : ‘ I can do all things through him who gives me strength . ’ |
| 20 | I can do all things in him who strengthens me . |
| 21 | ‘ I can do all things in him who strengthens me . ’ |
| 22 | Paul again when he 's writing to the Philippians , in chapter four and verse thirteen , he says I can do all things , oh how arrogant of you Paul , how boastful you are , oh no he did n't just finish there did he , he says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me , and writing to the Romans in that tremendous eighth chapter of Romans and verse thirty seven he says in all these things , in all the problems of life , in all the difficulties and all the temptations , in all the pressures that we are called to go through he says , in all of these things we overwhelmingly concur , we are triumphant he says , how , through him who loved us . |
| 23 | Paul again when he 's writing to the Philippians , in chapter four and verse thirteen , he says I can do all things , oh how arrogant of you Paul , how boastful you are , oh no he did n't just finish there did he , he says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me , and writing to the Romans in that tremendous eighth chapter of Romans and verse thirty seven he says in all these things , in all the problems of life , in all the difficulties and all the temptations , in all the pressures that we are called to go through he says , in all of these things we overwhelmingly concur , we are triumphant he says , how , through him who loved us . |
| 24 | But I can do many things that you do not understand . |
| 25 | She can try them on then , so that I can do any alterations that are necessary . |
| 26 | Perhaps I 'll die from natural causes before I can do any mischief . |
| 27 | I ca n't give you a figure now , on how many American firms there are in the county , erm , but I can do some work on it and come back to you . |
| 28 | I can do some jobs that he gits in the way of . |
| 29 | I can do some writing there , read his books , meet a few people . ’ |
| 30 | 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 |