Example sentences of "he can [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my right hon. Friend see what he can do to help some children in my constituency , who came to me saying that they would like access to present-day artists such as Yehudi Menuhin , Cliff Richard and Jason Donovan and other , younger stars ? |
| 2 | When Michael Marks first wheeled his Penny Bazaar barrow into Leeds Market in 1884 , he can have had little idea that his actions were to one day progress Marks and Spencer to become the nation 's leading retailer . |
| 3 | If Grom suffers one or more wounds from shooting , combat , or whatever , he can try to recover these wounds at the end of the phase in which they are inflicted . |
| 4 | He can work towards a peace that does not entail Israel leaving the West Bank ; he can force Israel out of the West Bank by applying economic pressure ; he can give up altogether ; or he can try to break that Likud armlock on Israeli politics . |
| 5 | Instead , he believes he can begin drafting new laws to put his ideas into practice . |
| 6 | A different kind of style , and a different kind of rhetoric , is employed in passages where Dickens wants to move us with compassion : notably in Paul 's death scene , where he can afford to use simple syntax and vocabulary ( expressing the simple images of the child 's mind ) in the assurance that understatement will merely intensify the reader 's sympathy : [ 4 ] Paul had never risen from his little bed ( 1 ) . |