Example sentences of "i can [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can do the last bit , ’ she said hastily , exerting a steely self-control . |
| 2 | Well I can answer the second one first . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | I can announce the second scheme on the industrial side ; a joint scheme financed by the CBI ( Confederation of British Industry ) . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ If I can crash the 20-second barrier in the final and nick a bronze , then I 'll be one happy Englishman . ’ |
| 7 | I can read the first question , A , spices for cooking |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 10 | Y'know , I can remember the first time I wore them . |
| 11 | I can remember the first time I got drunk on Scotch . |
| 12 | I can , I can remember the first drawing , you used to draw a house and you |
| 13 | I can remember the first time I ever |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's five in the morning and I can hear the first cars swooshing through empty streets . |