Example sentences of "he can do [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having perfected this petulant stance , all he can do is reiterate it — with a self-deprecating acknowledgement of the onset of self-parody : ‘ Stop Me if You Think You 've Heard This One Before ’ , ‘ Sweet and Tender Hooligan ’ , where the chorus is simply ‘ et cetera , et cetera ’ … |
| 2 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 3 | All he can do is resort to his native cunning and to prayer . |
| 4 | And the worst thing he can do is follow their advice . |
| 5 | All he can do is moan with pain . |
| 6 | The least he can do is respond immediately with a carefully worded personal letter . |
| 7 | The least he can do is buy us a decent lunch . ’ |
| 8 | It turns out that the best he can do is to form his expectation of and in accordance with the following formulae : where |
| 9 | What he can do is instill a sense of purpose and energy that 's been missing for years . |
| 10 | what he can do is have something when he gets up , rather than the old |