Example sentences of "he can [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , well he should n't see , cos he can , he can check his own name ca n't he ? |
| 2 | It is only by putting some distance between himself and them that he can discharge his prime responsibility , which is to the country : decisions taken in the House of Commons affect all of us . |
| 3 | Nic 's own things back home include a shop and record label , occasional work with The Hummingbirds and three more bands ; Sneeze , the excellently-named Hippy Drivel and Godstar ( who may well feature Evan on drums , if he can dump his own band for a month or so next year ) . |
| 4 | This updated to the 1930s translation by Robert Cogo-Fawcett and Braham Murray affords the leading actor a role into which he can sink his theatrical teeth . |
| 5 | Still , if he can manipulate his Chief Whip like Indiana manipulated his bull whip maybe today he will pull off the kind of last-minute , knife-edge victory the film hero always managed . |
| 6 | In cases where the plaintiff was not at fault , he can recover his full loss against any of the defendants . |
| 7 | What an acquisition he would be , provided he can curb his over-robust tendencies . |
| 8 | ‘ Why do n't I have a word with that little sod Ali and see if he can arrange it all ? |
| 9 | Melvyn Hayes played the younger son who wants to give up technical college and the chance of a job as an engineer so that he can fulfil his literary ambitions . |
| 10 | Hauser has been told he can negotiate his own move away from the second division club . |
| 11 | He 's a natural doer and thinker and organizer , easily bored by detail , but brilliant at conceiving conferences and programmes of action , and he can hold his own with academics three times his age . ’ |
| 12 | Do you remember old Edwina Currie saying in an interview , she was talking about John Major and she said ‘ oh , do n't worry about John Major , he can hold his own , he 's as tough as old boots ’ . |
| 13 | Well he can give me twenty-five pound anyway ! |
| 14 | He can give you free advice on the security precautions that best suit you and your home . |
| 15 | He 's got to go on for another ten lines , piling on more and more out of the way references to classical paradises so that he can give it all away for God . |
| 16 | He can give us this one last chance … " |
| 17 | He can choose his own projects and lives a very private life . |
| 18 | The thief remains a thief unless he can change his innermost mental habits . |
| 19 | He 'll be happier if he can make himself useful . ’ |
| 20 | High technology can also be used to provide the operator with flexibility in the allocation of functions , he can make his own decision about when to control manually and when to leave it to the mechanisms . |
| 21 | I think erm what , what we , what I 'd really like to do is if I could get in touch with him and give him the chance to make up his own mind er then he could decide whether or not he would like to have a chat with me and I 'd just run a few ideas by him , just as you 've done , without any pressure er and he can make his own decisions . |
| 22 | He can make his newfound fitness count against these . |
| 23 | In typical Whig language , Ferguson concluded that the Sovereign having no other Ground of claim to any Power or Prerogative , save what he hath from the Constitution which hath settled and vested them in him , That Prince who goes about to overthrow this , does all he can to cancel his own Right . |
| 24 | He can watch his Spanish league champions in the same dispassionate way that he would watch a Bulgarian second division match . |
| 25 | What I do on Saturday mornings is MY business , and he can poke his long conk in some place else . |
| 26 | If he 's really interested he can do his own asking . |
| 27 | A proud Henderson said : ‘ Fast or slow , he can do it either way . |
| 28 | he 's writing gets faster than he can do it neat |
| 29 | He can count himself lucky not to have been blamed for the bounce by his political masters . |
| 30 | ‘ He can count his good luck that he did n't come a few minutes earlier , ’ Rune said crisply . |