Example sentences of "he can [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has not given up hope that he can recover in time , saying : ‘ I 've not ruled myself out of it yet I 'm just looking forward and hoping I can be out there . ’ |
| 2 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |
| 3 | If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace . |
| 4 | Sunday he can lie in bed till twelve , get up , get dressed and go for a drink , but my job never changes . |
| 5 | McHale said McGee was in with a good chance of starting against Halifax because he can play in defence or midfield . |
| 6 | It was just one of these regular lunch-parties he has so that he can keep in touch with people he would n't otherwise meet . |
| 7 | He can get in anytime . |
| 8 | They may explore with Joseph whether he can get in touch with the other black families . |