Example sentences of "[noun pl] i can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a number of reasons I can not accept Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’ |
| 2 | In other words , I mean I 'm retired and I mean the point is that my erm experience goes back into the er into the dark ages I can almost say because in these days , you probably realise , I mean if anybody buys a video you do n't ask you do n't look for the book of instructions you ask about a five year old kiddy how to programme it ! |
| 3 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 4 | Yes it has , and as my mind races back over nearly four decades I can not help but smile , how is it possible that everything has changed so much ? |
| 5 | The agent then walked away with a constable , ostensibly in arrest , but whether they spent the day over the brow of the hill twiddling their thumbs I can not say . |
| 6 | ‘ Some days I can hardly see down the road at all and with all these people parking I just ca n't get through . |
| 7 | I have to look after two dear little boys , but these days I can only see them growing up to behave so cruelly towards women . |
| 8 | You know , it 's funny but over the years I can always remember you saying : me , my , mine . |
| 9 | Without such concepts I can not see that human infants could acquire a language ’ ( 1982 : 47 ) . |
| 10 | I find that absolutely because you know my stories I can only write so much and then I stop and think about then and then I write some more . |
| 11 | God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change , the courage to change the things I can , And the wisdom to know the difference . |
| 12 | For memories are the only things I can ever have of you now , my sweet , lovely girl … |
| 13 | I am talking to a man who has seen things I can only imagine . |
| 14 | It 's like our Albert , he tells that many jokes I can never remember half of what he tells me . |
| 15 | ‘ We should emphasise that we do have opinions on what is happening , but in my place as an official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs I can not go into comments without having all-inclusive information and orders in that regard . ’ |
| 16 | Are there assumptions I can safely make about the language they understand , their level of awareness , the social and political groups they identify with ? |
| 17 | Under ideal conditions I can just see the components separately with 20 × 70 binoculars , but I am not confident that I can do so with any lower magnification . |
| 18 | M79 is in the same field with 41 , and against a dark sky there should be no real problem in locating it , though under moonlight conditions I can not see it without a telescope . |
| 19 | From my crevice between the two machines I can just see Pa 's face . |
| 20 | In a gap in the trees I can now look down over a green vegetable pointillism of tree-tops , falling away down to the town . |
| 21 | The original play is by an Englishman , though what Gamal is doing translating plays by Englishmen I can not think . |
| 22 | Through the vapours I can even grasp at the idea that the hatred and malice of my enemies , their whisperings and pointings , are but emanations of one of the form , of love . |
| 23 | Years later I was at first comforted to read that an adult man could express similar sentiments about himself : ‘ When I consider others I can easily believe that their bodies express their personalities and that the two are inseparable . |
| 24 | In seas I can not sound , |