Example sentences of "i can [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , now , if I can hold on to these members depends on benefits being maintained , not decreased , that 's not an incentive . |
| 2 | ‘ I do have a certain amount of work to do , ’ Alice said , ‘ but I can fit in with your plans , Harry . |
| 3 | I am my own mistress and I can walk out of here tomorrow if I want . |
| 4 | mm , yes I can walk along with Allen , as far and then he 'll say well I 'm just going into see |
| 5 | Well it 's er I mean look at me now , I 'm , I 'm oh I can walk in to Fram |
| 6 | I can pass on over very thorough further citations to pp. 374–375 : |
| 7 | Okay , what we 'll do then is get you to sign this form here , we call it a green form fairly obviously from its colour and that means that I can do up to erm about eighty six pounds worth of er a bit more depending on on what we have to do , and you do n't have to pay us anything towards that . |
| 8 | No I have , I have , I have well I can do down in fits in someone 's hair . |
| 9 | Yes I 'd love to think that I can struggle back with the tree . |
| 10 | ‘ Once I 've managed the stairs I can sit down to work . ’ |
| 11 | I can sit down in 'ere a bit , ca n't I ? ’ |
| 12 | Oh I can sit down in it . |
| 13 | I can stand up for myself . |
| 14 | I can stand up for myself . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If I can stand up to McEnroe I can stand up to anyone . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If I can stand up to McEnroe I can stand up to anyone . ’ |
| 17 | Vice-Chancellors with a high-powered escort including the Director-Gen. of the British Council are arriving here an hour or so before we leave ( i.e. c. 40 mins from now ) so I am frantically typing a brief letter of a confidential kind that I can hand over to them . |
| 18 | Although I was brisk at the beginning about the philosophical attitudes of AI workers , I owe the reader some small sample of them , that I can refer back to later . |
| 19 | She got an enthusiastic response , ‘ Of course , Mrs Petherington , I can stay in through my lunch-break if need be . |
| 20 | I can pad out with sto with er brick where it does n't show . |
| 21 | I know many children and I enjoy looking after them I plan to do this for my career as I have applied to Suffolk College for a place in the Nursery Nursing course so that I can go on to be a Nanny . |
| 22 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I can go on for a few more days . |
| 24 | One day I 'll learn to swim real good , so I can go up to Scotland and show Marie and she 'd be real surprised . |
| 25 | I said and that 's why cos Paul said to me , he said , I never hear you moan , I said look you wo n't hear me moan because it 's not that I enjoy the job I hate the job I said I hate the work , and I find it hard work but at the end of the day on a Friday , I know that six o'clock in the morning on a Friday I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia , slip my card in there and I know there 's gon na be a couple of hundred of quid in there with the |
| 26 | At the same time , I 'm elated and I can go back to the vices I did have , ’ said Mr Tyson . |
| 27 | ‘ I can go back to trout fishing with impunity . ’ |
| 28 | Because the trouble is , I can go back to nineteen sixty four , Industrial Relations Act , which I thought was one of the best things ever bought out , whereby er the erm terms were levied to do so much training . |
| 29 | I can go back to bed and keep out of your way , if you prefer . ’ |
| 30 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |