Example sentences of "he can of " in BNC.

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1 But they are brought together , in successive books , by the force of this preoccupation , and the reader has to make what he can of the resemblance between two figures quite remote from one another in any coarser understanding of the matter , to do this while adjusting his sight to a vista of copycats , impostors and successive interpretations — a vista which is far from unfamiliar now and can be caught , for instance , in the productions and reproductions of contemporary literary theory .
2 These are portraits of the artist who grows up in an age of revolutionary socialism and who has to make what he can of it .
3 The reader must make what he can of it .
4 Mikhail Gorbachev has been under increasing pressure at home , especially in the Soviet army , to salvage what he can of the old Soviet-Iraqi friendship .
5 He can of course sue upon his own contract of sale , i.e. sue the retailer .
6 He can of course sue for any excess , section 53(4) .
7 This is not wholly satisfactory , as often the terms of the second mortgage are not sufficiently clear for the husband to enforce them ; it necessitates a separate form of receipt on redemption ; and it leaves the husband effectively without any title documents ( as these are held by the first mortgagee ) although he can of course have marked abstracts .
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