Example sentences of "he can [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because , he can repair the broken bit by putting a false bit on . |
| 2 | I 'm sure Morrissey is arrogant enough to believe that he can reclaim the Union Jack and even the entire skinhead movement for his own ‘ little England ’ fantasies and subtly satiric purposes . |
| 3 | But only Sam , asking hopefully if he can control the town hall 's lights as well as the synthesiser , looks likely to follow Messiaen and Boulez rather than Kylie and Bros . |
| 4 | It is this concurrent development which provides the source of what much later is destined to become the relationship which binds man to his God , first , by the processes of evolution , and then by man himself struggling to bring into his life the enrichment available to him if only he can control the legacies of ruthless evolution . |
| 5 | Whether he can match the Tories and Labour at political poker will only become apparent in a hung parliament . |
| 6 | And if he puts his hand to his forehead he can feel the scars of ridged skin that he was n't born with and it is as if each rippled furrow represents , records each recollective twinge . |
| 7 | His fingers are splayed out so that he can feel the very pulse of hundreds of megabytes of information flowing into him . |
| 8 | If he can satisfy the court ( and this is the whole crux of the matter ) that discovery would be likely to assist in the fair disposal of the case or in saving costs , discovery will be ordered . |
| 9 | 1.53 Finally , a plaintiff will obtain an interim payment if he can satisfy the court on the balance of probabilities that he will recover substantial damages at trial from the defendant or , where there are two or more defendants , from any given defendant ( Breeze v McKennon ( 1985 ) 32 Build LR 41 ; Ricci Burns Ltd v Toole [ 1989 ] 3 All ER 478 ) . |
| 10 | He thinks he can grow the business into a significant piece of change , much of it coming perhaps from the Microsoft arena where , as much as Lachman is a self-admitted Unix bigot , he knows he has to enter . |
| 11 | Alexiou ( undated , p. 89 ) believes that he can identify the sacred tree shown on the Agia Triadha sarcophagus ( Figure 47 , right ) as an olive . |
| 12 | He can identify the participants : the addressor is a young scientist who is being interviewed by the addressee who is doing research on language . |
| 13 | I have been to the Benefits Agency in my constituency , where the manager and staff made it plain to me that if staff were concerned about their safety they would not wear a name badge — but most of them want to because they want to be able to be identified by the public , so that if someone rings up a week later he can identify the person to whom he spoke a week before . |
| 14 | ‘ The person in question has proved his powers of leadership , he is a firm favourite with the supporters , and he has shown he can handle the media . |
| 15 | Having proved he can handle the tools , Nichetti 's sequel should ideally have toned down flashy self-consciousness and demonstrated his emotional depth . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , Mr Lamont has a long way to go before he can recover the confidence of Scottish business leaders . |
| 17 | Where the appeal is in respect of a condition , in particular , he can refuse the whole application . |
| 18 | Now , however , Acting Chief Inspector Dave Halsey believes he can stop the problem through noise pollution legislation . |
| 19 | I think perhaps I should talk to Connor first , so he can break the news gently to Patrick and Mary . |
| 20 | His opportunity comes when a lone housewife is murdered by a psychopath and shortly after he himself catches " flue and reckons he can trick the doctor into giving him an alibi that he is too ill to get out of bed . |
| 21 | Sometimes the rider will find too much grip and he can loosen the rubber 's hold on the tarmac by shifting his body forward , away from the rear tyre contact patch . |
| 22 | The voter picks one party list ; in some places — Belgium , eg — he can vary the order of candidates on it ( and the Swiss voter , with as many votes as his canton has seats , can split them among lists or even candidates ) . |
| 23 | At the same time he should check that he can reach the full rudder and stick movements without undue stretching , and that cushions or other objects are not limiting the movements of the controls . |
| 24 | Such is his make-up that he will come for just about any centre because he believes he can reach the ball . |
| 25 | An overnight weights-rise of 9lb puts Tom Troubadour nicely in at 10st 1lb and he can continue the winning sequence which has brought stylish victories in handicaps at Newbury . |
| 26 | He reads the game very well , and has played both right and centre back … meaning he can cover the full backs . |
| 27 | Now it may for the game that if he can cover the square number twelve , he will score more points than if he covers the square with the nine . |
| 28 | However , this qualification of the floating charge holder 's rights does not constitute a serious erosion of the rights of the floating charge holder since he can block the making of an administration order by appointing an administrative receiver . |
| 29 | He can retake the goods not only from B , the original tortfeasor , but even from a third person subject to the apparent exceptions which arise where that third person has acquired a good title even against A. Such exceptions are only apparent because A , having lost his right to the property , has got nothing which he can retake . |
| 30 | She is the one who knows how to puncture the wordiness of his speeches , getting him to edit his arguments so he can ram the message home in half the time . |