Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [pers pn] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know , depends what you want to do , I can prepare it now actually there 's only Sally left is ? , is it only you left Sal ? |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing can hurt me now , ’ she said blithely , reaching out her hands one on each side towards them . |
| 3 | I can I can blackmail you now . |
| 4 | They were known to our predecessors at the time and were expounded by them as clearly then as we can demonstrate them now ; for the reasons were implicit in the facts of the world in 1900 . |
| 5 | Yes , yes , you can , can catch me now . |
| 6 | I can picture her now sitting at the harmonium in her black lace gown , me standing beside her as we sang together . |
| 7 | I can picture him now , a tall lean figure in a helmet , smoking his pipe as he watched the horses being saddled or inspected them while they were being fed ; 1 can see him cleaning his rifle in the verandah of his tent , or sitting chatting with my mother by the fire in the evening . |
| 8 | I can picture it now , a fine velvet cord and such bonny colours . |
| 9 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 10 | and no one can break it now , just get the hell |
| 11 | Oh yeah I can feel it now . |
| 12 | can do you now or yeah , eh no , yes that 's right so |
| 13 | ‘ Oh Miss Havisham , ’ I said , ‘ I can do it now . |
| 14 | They , you can do it now . |
| 15 | We can do it now then . |
| 16 | that 's what I said it pulls them down , erm the Apache can do it now at any height apparently erm and the , there are , there are two or three particular copter 's now |
| 17 | we 're not wasteful right , but , oh we can do it now because you 're not thinking er , a tyres gon na want bursting can ya ? |
| 18 | I can show you now erm what I bought with my divi and we had a speaker at the Guild er on stainless steel and er he , wh you know when they asked questions you said well how do we , how do we clean it ? |
| 19 | It was a great mound of leaves and garden rubbish nearly as tall as we were — cabbage stalks , I can smell them now . ’ |
| 20 | ( I can smell it now . |
| 21 | I can smell it now ! |
| 22 | I suppose I can understand it now , I mean it must of been a lovely place , and then to have all these new houses going up you know , but erm , I mean there was some lovely , lovely lanes |
| 23 | If the orientation of the writing on the disc is unimportant ( in the centre of a bowl , for instance ) you can engrave it now , before fitting . |
| 24 | ‘ Ye can see me now , more 's the pity , ’ he grumbled as he pushed his way to the back , treading on a few feet in the process . |
| 25 | I can see me now . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh yes , I can see him now . |
| 27 | I can see him now standing there in the door . |
| 28 | I can see him now , treading down the soil , making shallow drills and sprinkling the seed , and watching anxiously several weeks later to see if they had germinated . |
| 29 | I can see him now , and you three children comforting him because he had left his family in England ! |
| 30 | Oh , I can see him now — ‘ Dragon bones and oyster shells ! ’ he 'd say scornfully , ‘ What good are they against this affliction ! ’ |