Example sentences of "he can do [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the time must be at hand to see if he can do for Scotland what he is doing for Celtic , and not simply because of injury to others . |
| 2 | ‘ He can do for Lazio what I did for Napoli , ’ said the dethroned Argentine superstar , still talking excitedly yesterday about Gazza 's wonder goal on Tuesday night . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll tell you what he can do in Palestine . |
| 5 | ‘ But I know that Martin was keen to show what he can do in Australia because his three-year contract with Wigan only allows him to spend one summer abroad . |