Example sentences of "he can " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy . |
| 2 | He can introduce us to some American girls and boys who spoke up about what they noticed and liked . |
| 3 | He was never to say hello to you , and he once said that he would not be interested in his child ‘ until he can go out shooting with me ’ . |
| 4 | But they are brought together , in successive books , by the force of this preoccupation , and the reader has to make what he can of the resemblance between two figures quite remote from one another in any coarser understanding of the matter , to do this while adjusting his sight to a vista of copycats , impostors and successive interpretations — a vista which is far from unfamiliar now and can be caught , for instance , in the productions and reproductions of contemporary literary theory . |
| 5 | These are portraits of the artist who grows up in an age of revolutionary socialism and who has to make what he can of it . |
| 6 | Not that he can mind that . |
| 7 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 8 | He can appear in so doing to have his opinions and to eat them too . |
| 9 | And he can also appear to place the novel in a state of suspension . |
| 10 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 11 | He is angry , suspicious , overbearing ; he can be very like the Zuckerman berated in the fiction as ‘ this unsatisfiable , suspect , quarrelsome novelist ’ . |
| 12 | There are readers whom , as Zuckerman is the first ( or second ) to acknowledge , he can drive to the complaint that he has sex , and family matters , and Jewish matters , on the brain : ‘ I want him to take his manuscript and mail it to his mother ’ , as I have heard them cry . |
| 13 | His shiksas and replicas , hostilities and escapes , have taken part in a great game of long duration , and he can be said to be reviewing the state of play . |
| 14 | At home though he can plug himself in to other computers all over the world . |
| 15 | That he neither really sees nor is really torn , that he can not enter the world of either comedy or tragedy , neither O brave new world that hath such people in it , nor Dark dark dark beneath the blaze of noon . |
| 16 | Mr Murray now wants to give away the Smugglers ' Kitchen so that he can channel his efforts into another property — the Dartmoor Inn at Bovey Tracey , also in Devon . |
| 17 | He would like to open an informal , family-run restaurant in the country one day , so he can eventually imagine returning to the long hours of hotel and restaurant work . |
| 18 | He can move from talking about Aristophanes to talking about Indian epics without any sense of discontinuity . |
| 19 | I do a bit of security work myself and Keith 's after whatever he can get , so we 're all up to something . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | With an aerotow , if the towplane pilot realises that the airbrakes are open , he can signal to the glider pilot by rapid rudder-waggling . |
| 22 | Yet it 's important that he shares your pregnancy in every way he can . |
| 23 | The insider who studies his own society is really the ‘ anthropologist at home ’ and he can not move away . |
| 24 | Returning to academia he can recall the spatial remove as being ‘ out there in the field ’ ; so that much of the current anthropology at home may still only be practising in its own backyard , pursuing an exploration of ‘ exotic cultures at home ’ rather than looking into its own front room ( Cheater 1987 : 166 ) . |
| 25 | On the one hand he can support his understanding of the institutional expectations by simply repeating those inculcated practices he has learned as a neophyte from the ‘ stories of the great days of policing ’ , which are interminably repeated ‘ at the charge room desk ’ or ‘ taken on at Nellie 's knee ’ . |
| 26 | Alternatively he can use his understanding of the way the metaphors and structures of significance are used to sustain the institution , and thus reveal the system to be the product of a specific mode of thought , which is only one possibility among many . |
| 27 | However , he can not always escape the results , or move away ; and may not be able to use this newly acquired knowledge to amend much within the institution . |
| 28 | Hopefully , he can use the creativity which exists between the experiential inside view and observational outside view of a cultural system to formulate an ethnography which incorporates ‘ a continuous dialectical , tacking between the most local of detail and the most global of global structures in such a way as to bring them into simultaneous view ’ ( Geertz ibid. 235 ) . |
| 29 | In a run down on the style of deference he anticipates ( which I note will stifle any critical point from ‘ below decks ’ ) , he talks about his length of tenure and how long it will be before he can ‘ escape back into the real world ’ . |
| 30 | It is a disciplinary offence to defy an order from a senior officer , so he can only carry on if he is prepared to take on his immediate boss . |