Example sentences of "he can [vb infin] [pron] [det] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Why do n't I have a word with that little sod Ali and see if he can arrange it all ? |
| 4 | Hauser has been told he can negotiate his own move away from the second division club . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He can give us this one last chance … " |
| 9 | He can choose his own projects and lives a very private life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If he 's really interested he can do his own asking . |
| 13 | A proud Henderson said : ‘ Fast or slow , he can do it either way . |
| 14 | See if he can squeeze something more out of I C I . |
| 15 | Your Dr Rafaelo must be a very important man if he can promise you that . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ For research purposes , we do n't want to have the fastest machines in the world , but one of each there is , so that when the user comes along , he can develop his own models , ’ Valero maintains . |
| 17 | So desperate are the Welsh GM Vauxhall Conference club to secure his services that chairman John Reddy has even told Fry he can name his own salary . |
| 18 | However , because he can have his own detailed requirements incorporated in the project , the system is suitable for construction of most types of building . |
| 19 | Er a lot of courage here by Agnew because he can see his own player 's gon na go to kick the ball but he does n't flinch out of it , knows exactly what he 's gon na do . |
| 20 | He can get his own then . |
| 21 | He 's a good man , a strong man ; he can save us all ! ’ |
| 22 | The sequence begins when Cassio , brought to Desdemona by Emilia ( the unwitting intermediary of evil ) , leaves in some embarrassment when he sees Othello and Iago approach : Iago moves from an upper plane ( Signifier ) to a lower ( Signified ) , from perception to interpretation : subtly doubting the former — Was that Cassio leaving your wife ? — so that Othello , who thinks he can trust his own eyes , takes the latter — so guiltily — with it , accepting a — false ! — linguistic sign . |
| 23 | He 's worked for his uncle ever since he left school , he lives in his uncle 's house and this is about all he can call his own . |
| 24 | ‘ It will be a place he can call his own but it will be in a block with a single entrance point and a resident warder , ’ |