Example sentences of "he can [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He can double up with Bertie when he gets back . |
| 2 | Having blamed it on the Bundesbank , he can go on to talk about other things — such as sex and tax , perhaps . |
| 3 | The ghost plot — Swayze gets killed , and before he can go off to heaven he has to save his girlfriend Demi Moore from the bad guys — is really just a gimmick , there to dress up the standard Swayze package with a few special effects and an impossibly sentimental ending . |
| 4 | ‘ Arazi has been working like his old self and I hope he can go back to America for the Breeders Cup and win like he did last year . ’ |
| 5 | He can go back to school but I wo n't let her treat him . |
| 6 | Any error on her part , however small , and he may remind her that he can go back to Bangladesh and marry again . |
| 7 | Here , the wife is left exposed to the monk 's attentions when the husband shuts himself up in his counting-house ( 75 – 88 ) ; he delivers his wife a lecture on his " " curious bisynesse " " when she asks him to come down to eat ( 224 – 48 ) ; he must settle his affairs in Paris before he can settle back at home after his trip to Bruges ( 365 – 9 ) . |
| 8 | He can waffle on about OPEC ad infinitum , and most clients wo n't know what the hell he 's talking about , but they 'll pretend to agree with him and will buy on the strength of what he says . |
| 9 | At last he can cut down on teaching , write a personal travel book about the lesser Antilles and write novels that need no longer return to his own , blasted childhood . |
| 10 | ‘ He may yet — if he can win back into favour . ’ |
| 11 | Val Catto is seeing what he can find out from Cambridge . ’ |
| 12 | He is rarely out at night and is largely free to organize his activities so that in bad weather , for example , he can catch up on paperwork in the dry and warmth of the office . |
| 13 | It means that he can slip out of school , er , in the afternoon , when normally , in nor on a normal school day , he would not be able to do that . |
| 14 | Howard has a stack of midfielders he can call on like Steve Hodge , Scott Sellars and David Rocastle , but not one of them is a Batty . |