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I and can
`` I can take care of this.
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
So I can hear you while I'm checkin' the car.
Print it in real big letters, an' I can cipher it out later ''.
`` Yeah, I can see that '', the friend was forced to agree.
Now turn around so I can see your face ''.
`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.
I can see Dan.
Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.
`` I've got her as neat as I can '', Donovan said, as he dropped the straps of the Seton harness over Greg's shoulders.
I could show what I can do ''.
It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.
Even as I said it I realized that an education can be invaluable.
`` I know what we can do '', I said.
I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.
and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.
To this meek conjugation Nicolas had replied, `` O.K. I can use this blanket.
I can never pronounce it ''.
`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??
`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.

I and walk
Now, are you going to take me or am I supposed to walk ''??
I figger it's probl'y a sixty-five-mile walk, and I c'n maybe get this spring patched up in a couple of hours ''.
A few minutes later I saw my Uncle's car drive up and a woman's figure emerge and walk to the corner.
Or: `` I walk around the house a lot ''.
We don't 'low nigras to walk on the same sidewalk with white men where I come from.
Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.
I can sit here in the car while you walk around the corner ''.
Lighting my pipe, I took a walk.
In fact, He came into this world Himself, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who stood here amid the darkness of human sin and said: `` I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life ''.
I could, he thought, take a long walk -- but where??
This refugee was a middle-aged man, a big, handsome man with a strut to his walk as I have never before seen.
it is when I meet someone who was a close friend of the family, and therefore of mine, and they nod to me so coolly and walk away, that it hurts.
`` I could walk out the door ''.
Another version ends with " Now I know my ZYXs, let's all go and walk to Texas.
Young did not walk a batter and was later quoted: " For my part, I think it was the greatest game of ball I ever took part in.
* Imperfective ( an action with ongoing nature: combines the meanings of both the progressive and the habitual aspects ): ' I am walking to work ' ( progressive ) or ' I walk to work every day ' ( habitual ).
* Habitual: ' I used to walk home from work ', ' I would walk home from work every day ', ' I walk home from work every day ' ( a subtype of imperfective )

I and real
`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.
I am not making a clinical judgment here, for such personal tragedies are real and are commonplace in the analyst's consulting room, but literature makes a different claim upon our sympathies than tragedy in life.
The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.
In my letters I took on a personality that differed from the self I knew in real life.
In I have things to do the word things makes little real contribution to meaning and has weaker stress than do.
I see no real prospects for an all-Negro school population.
No wonder that Pozzatti and I had at times difficulty in remembering the real purpose of our presence, namely, Cultural Exchange.
As I see it, there's no real difference between being Jewish, Catholic, or Protestant ''.
When I answered it a voice too dignified and British to be real said, `` Is this Mr. Dale Nelson, the actor ''??
Then he said, `` Never noticed it before I mean, when she was dressed but for a woman her age, Julia had a real fine figure ''.
`` Yeah, it's a real load '', I told him, looking up the street at my battered Ford.
A real gentleman, I feel, would do neither.
After the usual Honorable Sirs, it went on to say that there had been set off to the widow one full third part of the real estate of the deceased Salu Norberg, one lower room, on the Western side, privileges to the well and bake-oven and to one third of the cellar ( I can show you the cellar when we go up ), also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the widow her own land that she brought with her as dower, namely the Beech Pasture.
`` Listen, I got a buddy I travel with, real nice guy named Larry.
The state is now faced with the immediate question of raising new taxes whether on utilities, real estate or motor vehicles, he said, `` and I challenge Mitchell to tell the people where he stands on the tax issue ''.
It was a real stimulant to a lot of guys I know who have moved past the 2-score-year milestone.
I think you fell short of the real truth in the matter: That the move is working out through the fine cooperation of the staff and all the people.
I came back, sitting by my locker, feeling real low, and the kid walks over to me, looks up, and says: ' You stunk ' ''.
In an amateurish, yet in a very real sense, I have followed the developments of archaeology, geology, astronomy, herpetology, and mycology with a hearty appreciation of the advances being made in these fields.
With three fine Russian films in recent months on World War 2, -- `` The House I Live In '', `` The Cranes Are Flying '' and `` Ballad Of A Soldier '' -- we had every right to expect a real Soviet block-buster in `` The Day The War Ended ''.
I kept saying, `` If I could just build up a reputation for myself, make some real money, get to be well known as an illustrator -- like Peter Askington, for instance -- then I could take some time off and paint ''.

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