Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] can [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there any way that I can start these running automatically when I get into Windows ? |
| 2 | However , it is only in these areas that I can perceive any major divergence in my account and Bethe 's . |
| 3 | I mute them so that I can switch two wirelesses on at the same time , because if you have two on together they screech . |
| 4 | I need to be fit so that I can stay awake in that Committee upstairs . |
| 5 | An anorexic may tell her friends or parents , ‘ I 'd like to be slim ’ , and , if pressed for a reason , may reply along the lines of , ‘ So that I can wear nice clothes , date good-looking boys , and generally have a good time . ’ |
| 6 | That document — I now quote from it so that I can make certain that I am not misleading the House — states : ’ Special software packages are being developed commercially and will be available before April 1991 . |
| 7 | Please let me know at least two days in advance so that I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 8 | That I can make that prim mouth curve into a delightful smile … ’ |
| 9 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's only because you stayed — and did what you did — that I can make light of it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd like to think that I can offer useful opinions on other positions , and that I would n't be confined to just the back row , ’ he said . |
| 12 | I am so sure of that now that I can ignore all the pressure to do something else but it does take strength . ’ |
| 13 | There are so many essays and books about the so-called ‘ crisis ’ in English studies that I can do little more than simply explain my own beliefs and show how these underlie the Cox Report 's recommendations for a National Curriculum . |
| 14 | I take a furtive and secret pride in the fact that I can do all these things , that I am physically strong , can lift and carry things that defeat other women , wonder with some scorn what it must be like to have to learn to clean a house when adult , not have the ability laid down as part of the growing self . |
| 15 | I know that I can do that at home and abroad by continuing to represent the country . |
| 16 | She can try them on then , so that I can do any alterations that are necessary . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've accepted that I can do this for a certain amount of time . |
| 18 | That I can do most of my work in my suit without getting dirty . |
| 19 | ‘ The men think that I can do disappearing tricks , too ! ’ thinks Carl . |
| 20 | Do n't you realize that I can inflict billions of years of exquisite suffering and pain on you , ’ the lamb said . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | This was the only time that I can remember such a fatality occurring locally during my lifetime . |
| 23 | Now , erm , the , even dedicated person though I am , ex-workaholic , erm , there is no way that I can find sixteen uninterrupted hours in one month . |
| 24 | It seems strange that I can spend ten times as much on a Fender product and be provided with none of this ! |
| 25 | It 's my extreme good fortune that I can use that voice to earn a living . |
| 26 | I have bought a display book of transparent folders from the stationers so that I can put each pattern sheet into one of the pockets , together with a note of any information such as techniques used and any variations tried . |
| 27 | So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ? |
| 28 | So that I can put this sort of stuff somewhere frigging else . |
| 29 | A coalition was formed in June 1757 in which Pitt ran the war , and justified his claim ‘ I know that I can save this country , and I know that no other man can ’ , while the Duke of Newcastle made sure that the majority in the House of Commons realized that their business was to vote money for Pitt 's military operations without too much fuss . |
| 30 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |