Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [vb infin] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He thinks I can manage the first two years ' bills at Dickie 's new school , but after that I 'll be cleaned out , so God alone knows what 'll happen . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm now 36th in the European merit order , but I feel I can make the first 25 ’ , said big hitter Clarke before teeing off in Switzerland . |
| 3 | I can read the first question , A , spices for cooking |
| 4 | With an odd feeling that he was asking because it was expected of him rather than out of genuine interest , she replied somewhat stiltedly , ‘ Once I 've a clear picture of the items to be displayed , and which room they 're to go in , I can begin the first rough draft for the catalogue . ’ |
| 5 | Y'know , I can remember the first time I wore them . |
| 6 | I can remember the first time I got drunk on Scotch . |
| 7 | I can , I can remember the first drawing , you used to draw a house and you |
| 8 | I can remember the first time I ever |
| 9 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 10 | It 's five in the morning and I can hear the first cars swooshing through empty streets . |
| 11 | So far , I 've given two to friends in hospital and one to an elderly neighbour , who 's begged me to let her have another one so that she can pass the first one on . |
| 12 | ‘ Give me a couple of minutes , then you can send the first one in . ’ |
| 13 | and then start losing confidence , wasting time , if you 've got some check , like that , right , okay , so if you like to work that one out , you should n't have any problem with the , the second bar , if you can do the first one . |
| 14 | Once all the letters are found , the object is to unscramble them to make up the phrase and you can make the first person the winner . |
| 15 | How did you feel , cos , you said that you can remember the first day that you arrived |
| 16 | Wait until you can see the first true leaves between the two seed leaves . |
| 17 | Even so , in this simple organism you can see the first hint of a fish . |
| 18 | You can see the first ones where er , our project base . |
| 19 | First of all Tracey you can have the first opportunity to show how little you know . |
| 20 | You can plan the first outing as a short walk down the road and back : the patient walks ahead , while you follow at some distance , in case he gets into difficulties . |
| 21 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 22 | So we can do the first two . |
| 23 | We can do the first two and then |
| 24 | Once the task to be taught has been selected we can begin the first step in the model , that of analysing the task into its component elements and plotting the knowledge and skills necessary for successful performance . |
| 25 | It is a tough one , but I know we can win the first leg . ’ |
| 26 | Note that here the submatrix unc is unc and we can take the first two columns as linearly independent ; the third is obtained by subtracting half the first from the second . |
| 27 | We may want to make a dash straight back to Olbia so that we can catch the first ferry across in the morning . ’ |
| 28 | and unc we can replace the first original equation by |
| 29 | ‘ Either they can back the Union or they can take the first , irrevocable step towards separation , ’ he said at the party 's morning press briefing . |
| 30 | The colony 's preparations for the deportations are well advanced , but its government requires the go-ahead from London before it can send the first planeload to Vietnam . |