Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dearest Mother and Dad I am sorry I can not write letter to-night will write to-morrow night . |
| 2 | I say I 'm sorry I can not understand a word you 're saying . |
| 3 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 4 | Oh yeah that one , that 's not so bad , it 's the other stuff this er was is it , Saladene that that 's a wo a wood preservative it 's a got a s stainer now that 's not very strong I can still smell it now you know . |
| 5 | ‘ They are so grotesque I can scarcely bring myself to touch them , ’ says Carey . |
| 6 | Her voice is so low I can scarcely hear what she is saying . |
| 7 | She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth . |
| 8 | How women who do n't have professions manage to keep themselves sane I can not imagine ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I am afraid I can not comment at all , ’ said Sir Donald Hall , deputy chairman of GEC-Marconi . |
| 10 | And more than that I 'm afraid I can not tell people . |
| 11 | I am afraid I can not bear just yet to go back to Baldersdale . |
| 12 | ‘ I am afraid I can not say any more . |
| 13 | Remember that if you return home at the end of the session with the work you planned to do uncompleted you can not expect to return the next day or the next week to find the situation exactly as you left it . |
| 14 | We hope you will enjoy this subject and if you are really interested you can also join the Computer Club . |
| 15 | But if you are not careful you can still end up on the street and losing money , even when your rent is fully paid up . |
| 16 | However , remember that in working with check lists it is n't crucial , to start with , if you ca n't arrive at an exact technical phonetic description straight off — as long as you can distinguish between same and different you can still make progress . |
| 17 | The doctor said , ‘ I 'm afraid we can not hope now . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm afraid we can not have any of this . |
| 19 | Laryngitis with hoarseness worse ( < ) in the evening ; larynx so painful they can not talk ; very sensitive to touch and cold air . |
| 20 | As no one group is self-sufficient it can not meet the needs of its members . |
| 21 | She joked : ‘ I get on well with all the guys , but if any of them get too frisky I can always use my army self-defence training to sort them out . ’ |
| 22 | He said after his release : ‘ I am delighted I can now start a new phase in my life . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If you 're so concerned about me getting lost I can always eat in the hotel . ’ |
| 24 | in the meantime Brocklesby was approaching and this one horrendous photograph of me looking very harassed you can well imagine and my father ever pompous when he saw this photograph said huh where were your directors , was n't one of them in charge , and I said no they were away having lunch , they were just going to arrive when they you know , anyway ? |
| 25 | It tends to be the case that when a task is identified as being reactive you can usually delegate it down , because it 's very , it 's a monotonous , everyday task , it does n't actually move the department forward . |
| 26 | If you start to feel too warm you can always take off the hat and gloves . |
| 27 | The letter ended by wishing me luck but adding the proviso , ‘ If you , having thought about the matter very deeply , are convinced you can emotionally handle the situation . ’ |
| 28 | 4.5 Consider the following sentences : ( 33 ) we believe the detective innocent Leonard proved the theorem incorrect Atkins will guarantee her picture authentic We can perhaps take it as self-evident that these do not contain attributive adjectives , but they also differ from predicate qualifiers . |
| 29 | The idea of boredom is not very distressing to us because if we are bored we can usually do something about it , and so can a horse in the wild . |
| 30 | Well I hope this article clearly shows how to one fishkeeper a species can seem so easy he/she can not stop them breeding , while for another it can seem to be the most difficult fish in the world . |