Example sentences of "[conj] he can " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am going to tell Roy Plumley 's successor where he can stick the one luxury he allowed us to bring . |
| 2 | Understandably , he is looking for a place where he can not be reached , A Retreat where he can enjoy an unearned or undeserved equilibrium . |
| 3 | In a well-equipped nursery where he can be observed with no distress to himself — that is all . ’ |
| 4 | Very well , in a special nursery where he can be observed . |
| 5 | Everything goes as planned and I soon bully him into the landing net , and from there the hook is removed and he is slid into my big , knotless keepnet , where he can lie safe and recover while I try to catch him some company . |
| 6 | ‘ He likes us where he can see us , he says . ’ |
| 7 | The widower will receive many more invitations out to meals in other people 's homes in the early days too , and he will have the advantage of never having to feel trapped in the isolation of an empty house in the evenings ; for if his emotional condition after his wife 's death is reasonably steady and he feels the need of company , he can always stroll out to the local pub for a drink , where he can remain in complete control of the amount of conversation he wants , or can endure , and can head for home again just when he feels like it . |
| 8 | We do some in-house , and we 've also got an outside researcher called Norman Pickering who has a home laboratory where he can do just about anything … |
| 9 | And it is becoming increasingly likely that the England starlet will be allowed to move on to another county where he can make a fresh start . |
| 10 | The ‘ credulous father ’ Gloucester is easily manipulated into setting a guard to catch Edgar ( King Lear , 11. i.17 ) , and Edmund , who has been ‘ sheltering ’ Edgar ( that is , keeping him locked up , where he can not confront his father ) , dupes him into fleeing , so that Gloucester can order him to be pursued and killed ( 56–63 ) . |
| 11 | We met in a pub , some crepuscular burrow where Stuart is a regular little furry creature , where he can crouch happily in the reconstructed inglenook ( imitation Norman Shaw ) and quaff his ale as his yeoman forefathers have so quaffed since antiquity . |
| 12 | A similar result is likely where the witness is suspected of complicity in a fraudulent scheme , especially where he can be regarded as the ‘ real ’ plaintiff . |
| 13 | A different kind of style , and a different kind of rhetoric , is employed in passages where Dickens wants to move us with compassion : notably in Paul 's death scene , where he can afford to use simple syntax and vocabulary ( expressing the simple images of the child 's mind ) in the assurance that understatement will merely intensify the reader 's sympathy : [ 4 ] Paul had never risen from his little bed ( 1 ) . |
| 14 | But perhaps Tod Friendly has need of the city , where he can always move among others , where he is never considered singly . |
| 15 | ‘ I think we should reinforce the fence with fine mesh , and we should give him somewhere to hide — a place inside his enclosure where he can feel safe . ’ |
| 16 | He just wants to keep the goat tethered — ; here , where he can see it . |
| 17 | Perhaps to the priest 's house where he can be guarded by soldiers . |
| 18 | Section 9 provides that where he can not or does not make the valuation , the contract is avoided . |
| 19 | This plea will succeed where he can show two things : ( i ) that he was radically mistaken about the nature or effect of the document ( ii ) that he was not careless in signing it , Saunders v. Anglian Building Society . |
| 20 | After they had gone through the ordeal of giving evidence , their father , who was found guilty of eight serious charges with nine being left on the file , was put on probation and allocated to a hostel not two miles from where his last victim lives and where he can be seen by the family as they pass through the town centre . |
| 21 | And there 's nowhere he 'd rather be than back in his native Enniskillen — where he can unashamedly lead life at a crawling pace . |
| 22 | Edward is anointed with holy oil : he has the power of healing , they say ; he loves his chaplains and worships daily , prostrate , where he can be seen . |
| 23 | Many feminists , by contrast , see the home as predominantly a back region for a man returning home from work : one where he can be himself , and largely at the expense of women 's autonomy and escape . |
| 24 | A person who has been dispossessed may bring an action for ejectment where he can establish an immediate right to possession . |
| 25 | However , in general , where he can prevail , the buyer will wish to have an indemnity from his seller against all such third party claims and their consequences . |
| 26 | today where he can stay at our mum 's . |
| 27 | This leaves the Energy Secretary , Mr John Wakeham , with two options : he can either agree to underwrite any cost escalations in nuclear handling costs after privatisation , or he can swallow his pride , and pull all nuclear plant out of the impending sale . |
| 28 | He can work towards a peace that does not entail Israel leaving the West Bank ; he can force Israel out of the West Bank by applying economic pressure ; he can give up altogether ; or he can try to break that Likud armlock on Israeli politics . |
| 29 | So Mr Baker can either give up , or he can work at weakening Likud . |
| 30 | Or he can adopt a clinical approach , hitting out the best line from every tee to give the best angle onto the green , taking note of all the historical precedents and prudently heeding them . |