Example sentences of "he can [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skill is one of the most important elements in the champion 's make-up , because if he ca n't perform the right technique at the right time and in the right way , he will never make it to the winner 's rostrum . |
| 2 | ‘ That must be why we have to stop the ceremony — to make sure he ca n't tap the mental energy of the congregation and use it to supplement the Old One 's autonomic functions enough to pull the rest of it out of the Vortex , ’ Ace finished , and sat back with a cheery grin . |
| 3 | The mere mention of the biting in Anna 's manuscript record of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ variants is enough to pull the reader back into The Possessed , and he ca n't experience the sudden fierce tug of that novel without realizing simultaneously that the whole ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter belongs elsewhere , to a different masterpiece . |
| 4 | Nero wants a big river pearl to go in his belly-button , he says he ca n't see the other one for fluff . |
| 5 | Mr. Major must be blind as well as blinkered if he ca n't see the serious , dangerous and dismal developments which have reached crisis point since MPs went on holiday six weeks ago . |
| 6 | either that it 's funny or he ca n't read the fucking question |
| 7 | The fact that he ca n't remember the exact distance or his position is typical of the man , such things do n't matter to him . |
| 8 | The point is , however , that whether he 's actually in favour of the levy or not , he ca n't accept the Prime Ministership while the issue is still on the agenda . |
| 9 | Try as he might it is clear that he can not make the economic figures add up , creative accounting or not , in a way which will make the parliamentary Tory Party arithmetic secure . |
| 10 | Where a defendant is familiar with the trade in question he may be taken to have knowledge of the existence of a contract even though he can not identify the other contracting party and even though he may have no direct information about any particular contract at all . |
| 11 | Like Margery in Dame Sirith , he can not maintain the courtly role he attempts to appropriate , and cuts a most unimpressive figure . |
| 12 | Dr. F. says that he can not remember the exact conversation which followed : |
| 13 | If possible , the patient learns to walk without any support at all : if he learns to lean on a stick , tripod or quadrupod , his body balance is likely to become totally distorted , and he can not learn the necessary body control to walk safely . |
| 14 | He can not join the Magic Circle until he is 18 , but no one can fail to be impressed when he slips out of handcuffs in under one minute . |
| 15 | He can not forbid the Common Law Courts to try an action ; but he can forbid a man to bring it , or to go on with it , or to take advantage of the judgement which he has got , and can put him in prison if he does not obey . |
| 16 | This will be so where he is reasonably satisfied that one of a group of two or more people , including yourself , must have committed an act of gross misconduct ( such as theft of money from a room to which only a very limited number of individuals had access ) , and yet he can not pinpoint the actual culprit , despite having examined all the evidence thoroughly . |
| 17 | He can now foresee the rapid completion of the work on Andrea Pozzo 's frescoes in the apse of the church of S. Ignazio and the beginning of the project to conserve Baciccio 's cupola decoration at the Gesú . |
| 18 | Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says . |
| 19 | Yet , like Sly , he can only sustain the unfamiliar medium for a few speeches , and sinks back to his true milieu . |
| 20 | Darlington Civic Theatre HE can still do the high kicks and he still has that sexy giggle , even though he must be at least … |
| 21 | At almost 50 , he may be nearer in age to Mother Teresa than New Kids On The Block , but he can still drive the pubescent in all of us wild . |
| 22 | But undeterred , he can still visualise the enormous potential of a bank that even last year managed to make record operating profits of £2 billion , only to see ‘ almost all of it swept away by debt provisions ’ . |