Example sentences of "what he can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the overall feeling is that the Jockey Club is genuinely concerned with helping the industry move forward and Haines should at least be a given a chance to show what he can do . |
| 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 | If the final grade is largely determined by course-work marks , how are you to mark a piece of work completed in a pupil 's first term of his introduction to a subject , compared with what he can do after five or six terms ? |
| 4 | He was getting into his sleeping-bag when he yelled , ‘ Oh , I 've burnt my bum today … and if that fish and chip wagon does n't come I 'll tell him what he can do with ‘ em . |
| 5 | … has a perfectly secure right if he thinks St to wait until his contract is determined , to take his redundancy payment , and then see what he can do in regard to finding other employment . |
| 6 | ‘ What he can do , I can do ’ I thought , and I again began to venture out to our local small cinema on my evening off . |
| 7 | Wordsworth 's power as a poet is seen in what he can do with such material , so that after reading Stepping Westward these commonplaces , while retaining universality , are made new for us . |
| 8 | ‘ He should give him a run of five or six matches to show what he can do . |
| 9 | ‘ He must get his chance to show what he can do — and he must get it over a number of games , not just one or two like he did against Leeds and Manchester United . ’ |
| 10 | Branfoot said : ‘ I will give him the chance to show what he can do . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I feel sick for John because he was desperate for a chance to show what he can do . ’ |
| 12 | Is n't it worth giving Gazza a game to find out just what he can do — just what he is capable of producing ? |
| 13 | We know what he can do in that department . |
| 14 | You know what he can do ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll tell you what he can do in Palestine . |
| 16 | If he does n't do it before the summer I shall tell him what he can do with his job … |
| 17 | I do n't know what he can do , but perhaps he 'll go to the police . |
| 18 | Yeah , well the easy way for them to assess him is have a look at his tests , and if he has n't done any , then they 'll just assess him on what he can do . |
| 19 | Will my right hon. Friend see what he can do to help some children in my constituency , who came to me saying that they would like access to present-day artists such as Yehudi Menuhin , Cliff Richard and Jason Donovan and other , younger stars ? |
| 20 | Will he see what he can do to persuade the public sector to follow the private sector 's practice in this case ? |
| 21 | He takes a pride in what he can do in a small space . |
| 22 | Ludo notices it for the first time , and asks what he can do for me . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | A lad has a week to settle in , then another three weeks to show us what he can do . |
| 25 | But I know from our Charlton Athletic days exactly what he can do . |
| 26 | What he can do is instill a sense of purpose and energy that 's been missing for years . |
| 27 | No , know what he can do with it you 'll have to hoover up here in a minute Clare , get all this tobacco off , I 'm only joking , girl |
| 28 | what he can do is have something when he gets up , rather than the old |
| 29 | really , beyond , like you say , telling Simon and seeing what he can do but |
| 30 | Because she said erm cos Chris is living there now he 's gon na show us what he can do she said . |