Example sentences of "he can look " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 2 | When a man reaches the winter of his life , there 's nothin' he can look forward to but death . |
| 3 | In one case Valens discusses a trust worded ‘ Let Stichus be free : and I request that my heir teach him a skill by which he can look after himself ; in another Ulpian deals with a bequest of an annual sum in which the amount has been left out . |
| 4 | Benji can look like a broken-down old cab horse with a real novice on his back or he can look really smart . |
| 5 | If he can look that prospect squarely in the eye and both parties cut out the cheap jibes , they will see that they are talking the same language . |
| 6 | Today he can look in his pharaoh-style mirror and say , ‘ Oh dear , I 've been a bit of a git . ’ |
| 7 | John Reid has splashed out more than £1 million to buy a new home so he can look at the famous sign . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to see him take the ball from them , and the strikers , so that he can look to score goals like he did in Wednesday 's game with Turkey . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ When he 's cleaned up a bit , he can look quite presentable , ’ she laughed . |
| 10 | So he can look boyish and appealing when he sweeps it back off his forehead . |
| 11 | The supreme organizer picture set out above , whose sub-modules are controlled but themselves conscious ( though not of the control itself ) , is a well-known theological pattern and has been explored elsewhere in detail : a God who is omnipotent , conscious , but not omniscient in that he can look into human brains while being unable to see what they are thinking . |
| 12 | A prolific contributor to magazines — first The Cricketer since his teens and , since 1981 , WCM — he can look back on more than 20 books , and forward to a number still in gestation . |
| 13 | One reaches over my shoulder and cranes his neck so that he can look at himself in the mirror . |
| 14 | G.P. said ( frightening , his face , he can look devilish ) first , I 'm delighted that you should admire Beecham . |
| 15 | This will entail getting transits before the start so that he can look either way and know where the line is . |
| 16 | They say he recruits them so he can look even more golden and gorgeous by contrast . ’ |
| 17 | This time he can look out for himself , I 'm going to get the rest home on time . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Keep on looking like that and Moinet will insist that you stay here indefinitely so that he can look after you . |
| 19 | In the latter case Z buys from X through X 's agent Y ; it is with X that he made his contract and if things go wrong , he can look to his seller , X , for a remedy . |
| 20 | Well , having said that there is a notice board that he can look at , you know ? |
| 21 | With two broken legs he 'd have starved to death if he had n't been cared for … now he can look forward to a rather more chirpy 1992 . |
| 22 | But I , I do n't understand , now she ca n't but if she went back to her husband he 's got money , I mean , he can look after her as |
| 23 | Standing on that base , felt as solid but as yet unexamined , he can look ahead of him at the task , which is writing , in possession of the means to carry out that task , which is his language , but suddenly that vision is revealed as fantasy . |