Example sentences of "the [noun sg] he can [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The financial needs of the family , the demands of a career and the needs of a father in his own right directly affect his availability to his children and have an indirect effect through the support he can offer his partner . |
| 2 | The Dent 's have appealed to their local MP in the hope he can reverse the decision . |
| 3 | I like to ‘ shoot ’ every Whaddon game and it is nothing for Jock to spend a whole weekend analysing , in minute detail , every little aspect of his instruction manual in the hope he can learn to operate the video machine . |
| 4 | He will have to argue , with all the ruthlessness he can muster , that evolution will betray the English part of the Labour party and will confine it to the periphery of British politics , rendering a future Labour government less likely . |
| 5 | Kelly said Blissett had been involved in an ordinary aerial challenge , the kind he can see 200 times in four games a week . |
| 6 | He may simply be an entrepreneur who perceives the opportunity to buy resources at a total cost lower than the revenue he can obtain from the sale of output . |
| 7 | If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've had sleepless nights but it 's the biggest day of his life and he needs all the help he can get , ’ he said . |
| 9 | And sadly he needs all the help he can get right now … starting tonight . |
| 10 | He wants to be a county cricketer and he 's ready to take all the help he can get . ’ |
| 11 | EUROTUNNEL chairman Sir Alastair Morton is already planning for the moment he can step down from the £9 billion project . |
| 12 | because at the other side of the hill he can see well , life 's gon na be a lot easier |
| 13 | but the minute he can come home |
| 14 | he 's erm he 's a lot more intelligent than he lets on , and he 's one of these that lets all the others push him down , where at the end of the day he can turn round |
| 15 | My washing has to be hung out horizontally rather than vertically because given the chance he can bring down a row of wet towels in six seconds flat . |
| 16 | The sign on the door tells the visitor he can have a tooth extracted for a trifling sum . |
| 17 | Sometimes the tides run fast an' sometimes a man gets the feelin' 'e can swim across from shore ter shore with ease when it 's runnin' slow . |
| 18 | Finally , when he has taken in all the information he can assimilate , after a dramatic ‘ I will go ’ or after waking one morning knowing that the problem has solved itself in his sleep , he applies for his visa , resigns his job , packs his bags . |
| 19 | Today he wants all the information he can get about Miho Nakayama — a cute-as-a-button , up-and-coming idol . |
| 20 | Yeah It makes you wonder where the hell he can put them . |
| 21 | Soon after , she said wistfully : ‘ I am just very , very sad that someone with such ability is not able to serve his country in the way he can do best . ’ |
| 22 | This intensely concentrated yet spacious journey-tale gives an impression of urgency by Masefield 's typical ‘ and-then ’ pattern and the energetic sequence of dangers and escapes which comply with the title ( Odtaa is ‘ One damned thing after another ’ ) — not as flippant a title as it might sound but an example of Masefield 's virtuosity in the way he can mix humour , tension and deep emotion without self-consciousness . |
| 23 | I just love the way he can play a note , just one note . |
| 24 | J. J. has just shown you his one real skill — the way he can judge the mood of an audience and play it like a violin . |
| 25 | VS Pritchett 's fan included James Wood of the Guardian , while John Walsh , literary editor of the Sunday Times , plumped for Anthony Burgess ( ‘ I love the way he can use the word ‘ onion ’ three times in one sentence ’ ) . |
| 26 | Lastly , perhaps the biggest danger of electronic coursework is the possibility of a virus attack , but if the marker is aware of the problem he can take reasonable preventive measures . |
| 27 | Nancy 's method of coaxing is to tell the individual he can do it and , if he follows Nancy , he will do it , ‘ I always succeed ’ she assures me . |
| 28 | One of the things the kid 's got to do learn his language sentence and in the context he can figure out what the sentence has to mean , like radical interpretation kid , the kid is sitting playing on the floor , a rabbit 's bounced by and the mother goes . |
| 29 | Mr Powell was never to regain any sizeable base among Conservative MPs but Mr Tebbit , after leaving the Cabinet , has proved again and again that when combining with Mr Michael Heseltine or other factions within the party he can rally a significant number of MPs . |
| 30 | 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 . |