Example sentences of "he can [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well maybe he ca n't drink Jean . |
| 2 | Overall assessment : Fair do's , Peter gets a bit garbled and he ca n't handle telly but he 's a thoroughly decent and honest chap . |
| 3 | He ca n't handle John 's dad right now . |
| 4 | He ca n't bear novelty or originalities … |
| 5 | ‘ He ca n't leave London at the moment , ’ I answered . |
| 6 | He ca n't tell Dad about the deportation . |
| 7 | He ca n't stand kids . ’ |
| 8 | He ca n't stand hospitals . |
| 9 | he ca n't change mouth . |
| 10 | he ca n't spell dignity and lost her trust |
| 11 | There are a whole range of things he ca n't do , he ca n't direct congress , he ca n't appoint who he wants freely , he ca n't make treaties with whom he wants when he wants , he ca n't start wars if he wants to start wars all these controls are on the president but what I , what er Newstat is saying is , over and above that , even in the areas where he appears to have constitutional authority , as a matter of practice it 's very difficult for the president to exercise his authority and when the president does exercise his authority he does so at great cost to himself . |
| 12 | Mr has great powers but he ca n't give evidence on this case |
| 13 | ‘ Tomorrow , you make sure that he ca n't give details of the formula to anyone else — ever . ’ |
| 14 | But Mansell , who has clashed verbally and physically with the triple champion said : ‘ My boss Frank Williams has told me he ca n't stop people like Ayrton phoning him or coming to his room . |
| 15 | Strach 's had it just about — so Wilko 's decision to swap Rocky for White was a complete load of bollocks — if he ca n't manage players like Rocky and Cuntona then he should n't be a f*****g manager especially of a team with rather large delusions of grandeur . |
| 16 | ‘ Bloody fellow says he ca n't manage fish and meat at the same meal , ’ Amiss overheard him saying , as globules of congealed snuff quivered in his nostrils . |
| 17 | Course he ca n't do pencil and paper . |
| 18 | What bothers him , though , is the science that lies behind it ; he ca n't make head or tail of what he tries to read about it . |
| 19 | You see , he ca n't make Bumface take you back . |
| 20 | There are a whole range of things he ca n't do , he ca n't direct congress , he ca n't appoint who he wants freely , he ca n't make treaties with whom he wants when he wants , he ca n't start wars if he wants to start wars all these controls are on the president but what I , what er Newstat is saying is , over and above that , even in the areas where he appears to have constitutional authority , as a matter of practice it 's very difficult for the president to exercise his authority and when the president does exercise his authority he does so at great cost to himself . |
| 21 | I 'll tell him that he ca n't build shops here . ’ |
| 22 | And he ca n't imagine weakness . |
| 23 | Steve Gilbert has had a beard for 20 years and says he ca n't imagine life without it . |
| 24 | And yet he can watch the telly and he reads the newspaper and yet you do n't , he ca n't understand English but he 'd be watching this right and it is ha laugh so something must be funny but he du n no what 's happening . |
| 25 | There are a whole range of things he ca n't do , he ca n't direct congress , he ca n't appoint who he wants freely , he ca n't make treaties with whom he wants when he wants , he ca n't start wars if he wants to start wars all these controls are on the president but what I , what er Newstat is saying is , over and above that , even in the areas where he appears to have constitutional authority , as a matter of practice it 's very difficult for the president to exercise his authority and when the president does exercise his authority he does so at great cost to himself . |
| 26 | Yeah he ca n't say shit . |
| 27 | but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible |
| 28 | Her father is a casual miner and on the days he ca n't get work her income is all they have . |
| 29 | Duncan took some persuading — £250 and the scrap option on the VW to be exact — but agreed to meet me at Blackberry Hill with his wrecker truck ( there is n't a vehicle known to man he ca n't get hold of ) in two hours . |
| 30 | He said , just at the right time he decided that he ca n't get bath any more . |