Example sentences of "a man [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rightly or wrongly , the Tories evidently see Birt as ‘ a man we can do business with ’ . |
| 2 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel you are a man I can talk to — knowing that whatever I say wo n't go any further . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Renton 's very definitely a man I can do business with ’ Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council was reported to have said , after a preliminary meeting . |
| 5 | ‘ Marshal , ’ he began , ‘ you look like a man I can do business with — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 're my sister , it 's true , but I need a man I can rely on , ’ Dana said , regaining her confidence rapidly . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's a man you can trust ? |
| 8 | Do you want a man who perfectly fits your fantasy ( better cancel the church now ) , or a man you can love and live with ? |
| 9 | I sing it practically every night of my life , because , like bits of Hamlet , it 's so obvious that the trick is to go against the lyric and stir in your listener the real sense of a man who can not love . |
| 10 | He came to political maturity when the world was wrecked ; he sees himself as a man who can put back together what others have broken . |
| 11 | A man who can read a woman 's mind . |
| 12 | ‘ Coeur de Lion is not a man who can be drowned . |
| 13 | If a man who can generate pretty decent clubhead speed were inadvertently to use a women 's ball , the result would be higher trajectory with some distance loss — the clubhead will have compressed the ball beyond the point where the ball achieves its most efficient velocity . |
| 14 | Or a man who can not meet his bills ? |
| 15 | And canny Kenny says he knows a man who can . |
| 16 | ‘ He has always enjoyed a drink , and I 've never met a man who can hold his liquor better , ’ he says . |
| 17 | Mrs Beattie , 37 , said : ‘ When I find a man who can recall the colour of a lounge carpet in the third house of six visited that day , then I will happily interview him . |
| 18 | Both discussed Kohlberg 's moral dilemma of a man who can not afford the expensive medicine which may save his fatally ill wife , and who must decide whether to burgle a pharmacy to get it . |
| 19 | A man who can not base his decisions on precedent and logic has no business being on the bench ( a premise that Justice Brennan never forgot ) . |
| 20 | I told my friend ‘ I ca n't help you , but I know a man who can … ’ |
| 21 | Oh , I know the prince is n't a fascist , he 's got nothing but contempt for Musso ; Constanza says her father was never the man who had much faith in any trains running on time ; but he is a man who can still get favours from the regime . |
| 22 | " For a man who can catch a gibbon in a Ming vase it will be child 's play . " |
| 23 | And can I want him , a man who can do this ? |
| 24 | Do not expect me to congratulate you , madam , I am too busy congratulating myself that I am not the father-in-law of a man who can speak so demeaningly of any young girl in public . |
| 25 | ‘ The more reason I should be there , too , ’ said Hotspur tartly , ‘ for a man who can turn his coat once can turn it again as readily . |
| 26 | His answer is immediate and emphatic a good hunter , he says you know what a woman wants in a , in a husband is a man who can you know bring home the bacon literally , er it 's not smoked of course , but it 's fresh ! |
| 27 | ‘ I give you my word , ’ she said intensely , ‘ that I will find a man who can save Swift for us all , and then I 'll marry him . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Tholen is a man who can not resist a challenge and when , just before his 50th birthday , he was told he was too old to learn anything new , he set out to prove that theory wrong by learning to fly . |
| 29 | Mr Bush turned to attacks in a last bid to keep his job and pull off the political upset of the century and ripped into ‘ the slippery one ’ as a man who can not be trusted during a hectic five-state blitz to shore up his support . |
| 30 | But is Yasser Arafat a man he can trust ? |