Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I can tell of many schools and many teachers doing an exciting job under very difficult circumstances : a school set up in abandoned , corrugated iron railway sheds in Ghana with no partitions , hot at midday and unspeakably noisy during rainstorms , yet well equipped with a cheerful co-operative staff , an open plan school , Ghana style ; an overcrowded school in Lesotho where teachers had evolved their own brand of team-teaching , one teacher imparting information to a class of 120 , followed by groupwork where two teachers and a student supervised written work ; a school down the road from them where Class I and 2 teachers who finished teaching at lunchtime had organised afternoon sessions on remedial reading for older children ; another in Francistown , Botswana , in temporary classrooms , with walls made of hessian and children organised into ‘ family groups ’ playing reading and number games under the guidance of older children . |
2 | Er , Colonel is erm , doing a very good job over there in trying to make our flesh creep over the whole police situation , but I can tell by some of the remarks that have been erm , given from the body of the chamber that not everybody agrees with him . |
3 | But I can end with one piece of good news as far as I 'm concerned — the reappointment of Alan Davies and Robert Norster to the coaching positions . |
4 | People often say to me how much time have I got in which I can complain about faulty goods ? |
5 | So I can sympathise with those protesters outside the gate who say that new scientific knowledge must be applied for the benefit of all and not just those who commission and control it . |
6 | Visitor pressure and the often mindless or downright destructive behaviour of some of the people who come to this area have annoyed some farmers so much that they look on walkers as just another kind of vermin — and there are many times when I can sympathise with this attitude completely . |
7 | Our response to it was of course that er since the Post Office was re released from the Civil Service in nineteen sixty-nine to trustee , to pen the trustees , there 's been a minimum amount of trustees er I can recollect on those on the funds and we 've not had any problem . |
8 | His saying was " If I can work for 1 Yard an hour I can walk for 1 1/2d an hour . |
9 | I can walk in 120 and sing in 105 ; and if you ask me to sing in 105 now , I will manage it . |
10 | Hopefully I can improve on six and help the team as well . ’ |
11 | Right I know that 's okay so I can build on that . |
12 | ‘ Matilda , so far as I can gather at this early stage , is also a kind of mathematical genius . |
13 | You have declined to give police details of your account for reasons that are best known to yourself and in my view the only inference I can draw from that is that you have the money at least to pay a fine . ’ |
14 | It 's something I can do on long , boring evenings and gives the recipients a lot of pleasure . |
15 | well I can do with that cos I got a Three Eight Six , it should be perfectly fast . |
16 | I can do with one of those three clematis would . |
17 | ‘ I can explain what resources I 've got and what I can do with those resources — which includes looking after the bands I already have on board . ’ |
18 | Erm well I feel I like you say , I can do with more more sitting down and doing it myself so it it sinks in . |
19 | I shall see what I can do with this horse . ’ |
20 | I can do with some men to advise me — and you are a man now , Johnnie , I see ! ’ |
21 | You said I can do with some clarification which we seek to do . |
22 | I can do at two fifteen if you like . |
23 | But all I can do at this moment in time is tell you where I stand today . |
24 | There is nothing I can do about that for he harms himself , but I must still behave like a dutiful son and observe a son 's obligations . ’ |
25 | There 's nothing I can do about that . ’ |
26 | Naturally it is disappointing that I am not able to play in some tournaments but there is nothing I can do about that . |
27 | I 'll think what I can do about that ; I do n't want to go back to Security or through Six … when you come down to it how do we know some of the Old Guard in those places are n't involved in this bloody attempt to run the country from the shadows ? |
28 | ‘ Well , there 's nothing I can do about that , ’ she said stiffly . |
29 | There 's nothing I can do about that ! ’ |
30 | Well that 's erm tt nothing I can do about that until asking for the Mirror itself . |