Example sentences of "can [adv] imagine " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would like to open an informal , family-run restaurant in the country one day , so he can eventually imagine returning to the long hours of hotel and restaurant work . |
| 2 | To better appreciate the size of the sea , one can perhaps imagine it heaped up into a cube . |
| 3 | We can only imagine it . |
| 4 | One can only imagine the time , the patience , the dedication , the sheer labour . |
| 5 | We can only imagine that the long hours between distractions dragged interminably . |
| 6 | One can only imagine the ways in which prime ministers break the bad news to Cabinet members they are dismissing . |
| 7 | And then the railway lines themselves , snaking out secretly and backwards and then suddenly fanning out into a thousand arteries of shining black steel leaping through London and beyond to the places you can only imagine , the lines pulsing her brain with the excitement of where they 're going . |
| 8 | ‘ I can only imagine someone has jumped out on her and dragged her away for some reason . |
| 9 | All Leopold 's correspondence with his son during his engagement was later destroyed by Constanze , so we can only imagine the bitter accusations which must have passed back and forth between Salzburg and Vienna . |
| 10 | We can only imagine what they do with it . |
| 11 | One can only imagine what it looks like at night . |
| 12 | ‘ I can only imagine that it must be the drink . ’ |
| 13 | I am talking to a man who has seen things I can only imagine . |
| 14 | I can only imagine that shortly before the excursions a long double headed steam train must have travelled from Shrewsbury to Machynlleth , but I do n't know the times . |
| 15 | At a national level one can only imagine what the development consequences might be for countries with already declining or collapsing economies . |
| 16 | Now John says he he can only imagine that they 're selecting them out . |
| 17 | Clearly this is something we do not wish to be associated with ; we can only imagine they are trying to get some kind of spurious respectability by using our name . |
| 18 | Many , if not most , of the distinctive phenomena that constitute ‘ the nineteenth century ’ are directly due to railway speed ; that is , we can scarcely imagine the possibility of their development in the absence of railways . |
| 19 | One can easily imagine such a polity . |
| 20 | We can easily imagine devices by which a public memory could within modest limits reorganize itself on demand ; a catalog , or some analogous instrument , could be devised that would on request display its contents in several different arrangements . |
| 21 | We can easily imagine the effects of hacking on family life . |
| 22 | And when he does , I can easily imagine Charles making this speech which copies The Duke Of Windsor 's apart from the obvious name changes and — crucially — the substitution of ‘ love ’ for ‘ loathe ’ : |
| 23 | For we can easily imagine a legislative structure that would produce compromise statutes mechanically , as a function of the different opinions about strict liability or racial discrimination or abortion among the various legislators , without any legislator being asked or required to vote for the compromise as a package . |
| 24 | You can just imagine this little boy in the playground , when everyone else is kicking a soccer ball , dressed with big padded shoulders and a helmet and an American football — it was quite bizarre really . |
| 25 | I can just imagine it , ‘ Hey , have you heard ? |
| 26 | Eventually they were found out , and you can just imagine what a fuss that caused , all those years ago when Victoria was on the throne , and even the sight of a petticoat was forbidden to young men . |
| 27 | T : I can just imagine all those old rappers going — ( makes vomiting noise ) — ‘ This is hippyshit , man ’ . |
| 28 | I can just imagine how that Wardley cow will be crowing . |
| 29 | I can just imagine Women 's Institute ladies creeping out in the night to pinch jam jars from from graveyards . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , I can just imagine it . |