Example sentences of "he can [vb infin] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can stay in the hospital till we decide on a safe house . |
| 2 | Well he can sleep in the lounge and us two 'll have the single beds . |
| 3 | Larder adds : ‘ Jonathan wants to play fullback because he believes he can break into the World Cup team in this position . |
| 4 | Oh Charlotte 's trying to lean against him and push him out , no he 's settled for under the table now , now leave him Charlotte he can lay under the table , he 's out the way over there |
| 5 | When Escalus cross-examines him , this is done in prose , as befits his true status ( 260ff. ) , and when Angelo invites Lucio to state what he can witness against the Friar-Duke , the medium drops to prose for all four speakers ( 327–33 ) , to be catapulted back to verse as Lucio pulls off the hood and reveals the Duke 's identity . |
| 6 | The loutish Eddie meanwhile fancies his chances with ‘ Frigid ’ Bridgit and makes a bet with his pals that he can score by the end of the evening . |
| 7 | However , once the patient can stand and balance successfully , he can stand at the sink , and perhaps move sideways using the kitchen units for support , so the exercise also involves the physical work of balancing and transferring weight . |
| 8 | There 's times when he can go over the top . |
| 9 | Making waves : An Australian male surf lifesaver , Damien Taylor , 24 , has entered a beauty contest designed for women if he wins Miss Wintersun 1993 , he can go for the Miss Australia crown . |
| 10 | He can go on the game . |
| 11 | In doing this you will probably find that you have become concerned , not simply with the particular task they have to carry out , but with their relations with other officers carrying out other tasks or involved with other aspects of the investigation you are writing about , even down to such matters of internal etiquette as how high does an officer have to rank before he can go into the office of a superior without knocking ? |
| 12 | I got ta er cos he can go in the creche look |
| 13 | How far he can go in the absence of restrictive covenants is dealt with later . |
| 14 | But he 's got ta have shoes that cos , that he can wear with the suit and wear to school , cos he needs that school shoes , I saw the shirt and the tie . |
| 15 | The officer 's power to select what gets known to his supervisor may be exploited to support an image of competence which he can present in the reports he supplies . |
| 16 | Anyone who thinks that he can improve on the commitment and effort of British Coal managers reveals how little he knows about the coal industry and coal mining . |
| 17 | Unlike his predecessor , he can cope with the role 's high tessitura without strain and his pitching is more secure . |
| 18 | And Cottee testifies to the personal trauma that hangs over Shearer unless he can cope with the strain , media attention and the taunts from the terraces . |
| 19 | Apart from some general points , listed here ( as well as scattered elsewhere in the book where especially relevant , such as in Chapter 10 , Starting Your Own Business ) , giving tax planning advice is the job for a specialist ; and moreover one who is fully conversant with your financial affairs , so that he can advise in the light of your own particular circumstances . |
| 20 | Many observers believe that by the time he steps down in Brussels , at the end of 1992 , most small Irish farmers will have accepted his pension plan and he can return as the hero of rural Ireland . |
| 21 | The claim that the buyer can bring against the creditor ( e.g. the credit card company when the buyer has used his credit card to buy an item for more than £100 ) is the same as that which he can bring against the seller . |
| 22 | So , where the buyer bought the goods under a credit agreement of a certain type he will be able to bring against the creditor a claim similar to that which he can bring against the seller . |
| 23 | Thus where , for example , the defendant owns a chain of stores he can rely upon the acts of a store manager provided that the defendant can show that he ( the defendant ) took all reasonable precautions to avoid the commission of the offence . |
| 24 | He can swing a punch , which would give me pleasure , or he can call for help , which will give me warning , or , as he is doing , he can cower against the wall . |
| 25 | Tranmere striker Tommy Coyne has been sidelined by a flu bug , but Charlton remains optimistic that he can shrug off the effects in time for Wednesday . |
| 26 | He can talk about the Atonement . |
| 27 | The SSC 's director , Roy Schwitters , has decided that he can do without the participation of Samuel Ting , from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , who wanted to develop one of the two huge experiments that will make use of the machine . |
| 28 | He then did it in employment , you know , it 's obviously now gon na continue , I do n't know quite erm , how much more damage he can do on the economy , but that 's the guy who started it all . |
| 29 | Nothing that he can do in the way of concentrating on the original sensation and uttering the word ‘ pain ’ will succeed in endowing that word with a meaning . |
| 30 | However , he does not feel that he can tender below the £21,960 cost , because the order would make a loss for the company . |