Example sentences of "[subord] he can [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that time he has put unemployment up by nearly 1 million , so he can offer us no lectures on the subject of unemployment . |
| 2 | If he can tell us the one , surely he can tell us the other . |
| 3 | When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’ |
| 4 | I desire you to ask your good father if he can procure me a joiner or two and one or two masons . |
| 5 | ( Ask Ian Mackenzie if he can sell you a bag ) . |
| 6 | Perhaps the contributor to the " Glasgow Geography " in 1825 writing of the Scottish peasant was correct when he said , " By the time he has reached the age of ten years , he has by heart , as it is called , the whole Catechism , the metrical version of the Psalms , and is pretty well versed in the Bible … and by the time he arrives at the years of maturity , to the " big ha' Bible once his father 's pride , and the Westminster Confession of Faith , he has added Pool , Henry 's Commentary , Gillespie 's Aaron 's Rod Blossoming , the Faithful Contendings of the Church of Scotland , Boston 's Fourfold State , and if he can afford them the works of Jonathan Edwards . " |
| 7 | Quickly he records a message of warning , but before he can launch it the Daleks locate and kill him . |