Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] he can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tries to confine his searching to the area around the nest , presumably so that he can keep an eye on his partner . |
| 2 | Will the Chancellor of the Duchy reconsider his decision and pay a visit to the north-west , especially so that he can meet the 800 people a week who have lost their job since this time last year as a result of the Government 's policies ? |
| 3 | Answer : Levi has said he plays professionally only so that he can indulge his other interests . |
| 4 | So long as he can block Labour , his own party will stick together . |
| 5 | Later he has the android 's brain upgraded so it can cope with hunting expeditions and personal meetings , even Cabinet discussions with the Emperor present , all so that he can spend more time dallying with the princess . |
| 6 | The ball over the top , the low firm crosses driven in so that he can pick up the pieces . |
| 7 | So far as he can remember Summerchild was working on a comparison of incomes inside and outside the Civil Service . |
| 8 | George Alcock knows the sky so well that he can identify 30000 stars by memory , and can identify any newcomer at a glance . |
| 9 | We must now wait to discover how much Maynard relishes the captain 's job , coming to him much earlier than he can have imagined , and whether — as in the case of Morris back in 1989 — it affects his form and composure . |
| 10 | He does n't believe in Arnold Bros but he likes to think Arnold Bros exists just so that he can go on not believing in him . |
| 11 | Agnew knows that he has to prove to manager Kenny Dalglish not only that he can make a comeback but also that he can do his stuff at the highest level . |
| 12 | ‘ But the authorities make it quite clear … that before the constable is in a position to choose between a specimen of blood or a specimen of urine on the defendant 's claim that one or other specimens should be substituted for the specimen of breath , the defendant must be made aware not merely that he can have the breath specimen substituted by some other specimen in general terms , but that the alternative specimen can be one either of blood or of urine , although in the last resort , subject to the proviso to subsection ( 4 ) as to medical practitioners , the choice is that of the police officer . |
| 13 | Does n't say much about him cos he lives in Barnslow and only comes over occasionally that he can sort things out on the . |
| 14 | ‘ Keep on looking like that and Moinet will insist that you stay here indefinitely so that he can look after you . |
| 15 | ‘ Put a television up there so he can watch the Hang Seng reports — and all his favourite British programmes . |
| 16 | His fingers are splayed out so that he can feel the very pulse of hundreds of megabytes of information flowing into him . |
| 17 | The Prince is also very keen on deer stalking , another pull to keep him in the Highlands for as long as he can manage . |
| 18 | He is trying to establish and retain a block of capital available for the members of his family for as long as he can do so . |
| 19 | For as long as he can remember , he has yearned to be — wait for it — a rock star . |
| 20 | ‘ He can sit in a dug out watching our A team as comfortably as he can sit in London , not being involved for five days . ’ |
| 21 | He looks guardedly back , from as far as he can lean away . |
| 22 | He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go . |
| 23 | Faced , as far as he can see , with a future of minimum inflow and maximum outflow , he has decided to sell his gallery at 22 Cork Street as an art object . |
| 24 | Ackroyd includes the epigram ( which sounds more Wildean than Dickensian ) simply so that he can disprove it , but these free-form gobbets never look like more than irrelevant scratchings of a creative itch . |
| 25 | And I said Mark 's here so that he can switch it switch it off at nights . |
| 26 | He is prepared to drop the tax only on bond transactions between foreigners , and even then only if he can replace the lost revenue by introducing a broadly based value-added tax . |
| 27 | Well Mark will be back there tonight and he can switch it on when he comes home . |
| 28 | whether the girl standing on the opposite side of the crossroads , with her face hidden by the long dark hair falling over her shoulders as she waits to cross the road , head turned to watch the oncoming traffic , will look straight ahead so that he can see her face : and if so , whether it will fulfil his hopes ; and whether the fulfilment of his hopes would in itself be a kind of disappointment . |