Example sentences of "he can [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin Stephens did not quite convince that he was the Messiah in waiting at flyhalf although his coolly taken first-half drop goal showed that he can perform under pressure . |
| 2 | If he remembers to set realistic targets and play within himself , he can perform with credit . |
| 3 | The layout and organisation of the classroom should enable the visually handicapped pupil to develop a facility to understand and use the equipment and material in it ‘ so that he can feel at ease in the setting , and can respond freely and accurately about what he is doing ’ . |
| 4 | Also at this event the Champion of Oulton series continues with Graham Riley of Rochdale out to prove that he can stay on top of the contest and improve on his third place last year . |
| 5 | He has not given up hope that he can recover in time , saying : ‘ I 've not ruled myself out of it yet I 'm just looking forward and hoping I can be out there . ’ |
| 6 | Jan Aage says having scored for Norway he now hopes he can score for swindon in the league and that this is a turnning point he would rather score for swindon than norway … |
| 7 | And erm and she says you know well she just has to do what she has to do he can go to school and but she 'll just have to make do on you know , what money she has . |
| 8 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 9 | Then he can go to bed if he 's nothing to do with it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yes , I think he can speak with certainty . ’ |
| 12 | The Chelsea player damaged cruciate ligaments in the game and faces more surgery before he can return to action . |
| 13 | Angelo 's judgement on Claudio , a death sentence for having got his bride with child , is severe but consistent with his principles , and he can affirm without hypocrisy , although self-righteously , Yet the confrontation with Isabella , come to appeal on her brother 's behalf , fills Angelo with desire for the first time in his life , and a soliloquy gives us this crucial information about his new state : Shakespeare there presents Angelo in a soliloquy nearer the mode of tragedy than comedy . |
| 14 | I will paint for him not only the visible universe , but all that he can conceive of nature 's immensity in the womb of this abridged atom . |
| 15 | If the seller can not maintain an action under section 49 , he may still have a claim for damages which he can bring under section 50 ‘ where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods . ’ |
| 16 | And they also know he can shrug off pain , a useful attribute when crashing is almost an inevitability in a six-month GP season . |
| 17 | On the professional front he can talk from strength . |
| 18 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |
| 19 | On this evidence , Andrew will have to drown in incompetence while Barnes proves he can walk on water to change the England selectors ' opinion that the Wasps stand-off must remain their No 1 decision-maker . |
| 20 | On this evidence , Andrew will have to drown in incompetence while Barnes proves he can walk on water to change the England selectors ' opinion that the Wasps stand-off must remain their number one decision maker . |
| 21 | He is surrounded there by everything he loves ; he can walk for mile upon mile and meet nothing more taxing than the occasional sheep ; he can fish one of the best salmon rivers in Britain ; he can stalk deer , a sport he finds fascinating as well as challenging ; and he can paint . |
| 22 | He can lapse into playground language at moments of stress , or even , at one point , some pompous Hancockian self-pity . |
| 23 | That 's one ten-per-cent he can have with pleasure ! |
| 24 | It is common ground that an order for payment to the defendant by the board of his costs in the court of first instance can only be made if he can establish under section 18(4) ( b ) that he ‘ will suffer severe financial hardship unless the order is made … |
| 25 | If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace . |
| 26 | Note that the child does not have automatic party status when an application is made for a s8 order except in the circumstances specified in ( iii ) and ( iv ) above although he can apply for party status as explained below . |
| 27 | Sunday he can lie in bed till twelve , get up , get dressed and go for a drink , but my job never changes . |
| 28 | ‘ But he is the defending champion and he proved he can play on grass and he is playing this week on grass in Halle . ’ |
| 29 | McHale said McGee was in with a good chance of starting against Halifax because he can play in defence or midfield . |
| 30 | It was just one of these regular lunch-parties he has so that he can keep in touch with people he would n't otherwise meet . |