Example sentences of "[adj] he can [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps they 've been for their walk , this one looks as if he 's so old he can hardly ! |
2 | Thompson , in an interview on BBC Television 's Sportsnight programme , says he is neither pessimistic nor optimistic about his prospects for the Games but is convinced he can still be an athletics force for the next four or five years . |
3 | So he tends to regard his father as a kind of ideal he can never equal , and tends if anything to identify with er , with his own mother , and play a kind of passive role to his , to his father . |
4 | ‘ His mother says that if he gets homesick he can always find a goose to bring him back , ’ said the Thing . |
5 | If a horse is stiff or sore he can only show his discomfort by resisting . |