Example sentences of "if he can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If he can just pop off like that … ’ |
| 2 | If a number of employees insist on cash payment , an employer can not simply scrap his old cash-payment system , and so gains far less from instituting bank payment than if he can simply switch to bank payment as the general rule . |
| 3 | The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’ |
| 4 | Nice little wind-fall … if he can ever get to it . ’ |
| 5 | If he can actually think about getting up yeah , okay ? |
| 6 | If he can actually make an effort to write in and persecute gays and ‘ ethnics ’ , then it is he who is spreading a terrible disease and ‘ twisting young kids ’ minds ’ . |
| 7 | And if he can really put the icing on the cake of this remarkable recovery story by winning , he will be the toast of the Portsmouth greyhound racing fraternity — where he 's become a great favourite over the years . |
| 8 | Ask the lecturer if he can possibly forecast what , at least , his next lecture is to contain . |
| 9 | If he can only argue to himself that they seem ’ interesting' it is highly likely that he does not really know why he is putting them in , or what he will do with the answers when he gets them . |