Example sentences of "[that] he can [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where , however , the entry of the goods was inevitable , not only is there no liability for trespass on the part of their owner , but the view that he can retake them seems to be right , even if there is no direct decision to that effect . |
| 2 | The result of his planning so far is what he calls ‘ the R&D Initiative for the NHS ’ — something that he recognises must be visible and simple so that he can present it ‘ succinctly ’ to boardrooms and to nonspecialist health professionals , such as managers . |
| 3 | So it is only if he admits the strength of the argument from error that he can think he is getting anywhere by refuting PC k . |
| 4 | A MAN accused of having sex with a 15-year-old schoolgirl walked free yesterday — so that he can marry her . |
| 5 | He thinks that he can lure me into making a statement that will have him attempting to give a poor man 's reading of ’ Erskine May ’ and saying that he wants me to lay the document before the House . |
| 6 | The child who has been moving boats and other objects that float on the surface of the water , suddenly discovers that he can make them sink by holding them down or pouring water on top of them . |
| 7 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |
| 8 | Philip Gould ( right ) : his underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place . |
| 9 | But he calls it a world , and he 's such a good writer that he can make it seem like one . |
| 10 | I must never forget that He can influence us to right interpretation and thinking and even to some inspired initiative of love . |
| 11 | Now he is proving that he can do it here with 55-yard boundaries , and when he is batting with Paul Parker , another incredibly fast man between the wickets , it is going to be very difficult for sides to control them . ’ |
| 12 | He says he does n't feel that he can do it , does he ? |
| 13 | He wants us to be with Him , so that He can show us His Love . |
| 14 | cos there 's things that he can show you and |
| 15 | And I said Mark 's here so that he can switch it switch it off at nights . |
| 16 | And with divers on long bottom times , the supervisor needs them to return quickly to the basket , so that he can recover them for in-water decompression . |
| 17 | He 's got to go on for another ten lines , piling on more and more out of the way references to classical paradises so that he can give it all away for God . |
| 18 | His friends and colleagues gave him a memorable send off and presented him with binoculars ( for his bird watching ) , a leather writing case ( so that he can drop us a line from far off places ) and a couple of brandy glasses ( empty — unfortunately ) . |
| 19 | Just leave it there in front of him so that he can eat it if he wants it Charlotte |
| 20 | you know she told me about it , she says I think I must mention it and I said okay I wo n't do it any more and she said oh please do it , we need you to do it she said especially the letter formation , she says what just try and encourage him to write any old letters , just to make sure that he can form them without copying them |
| 21 | Make sure that he has in front of him the names of new members of the committee , so that he can welcome them . |
| 22 | You believe in the hypnotist and believe that he can help you . |
| 23 | I told Bernard to infiltrate the team so that he can keep us posted on their movements . |
| 24 | Ackroyd includes the epigram ( which sounds more Wildean than Dickensian ) simply so that he can disprove it , but these free-form gobbets never look like more than irrelevant scratchings of a creative itch . |
| 25 | The only disconcerting thing about eating David Moore 's food — ‘ never cooked before July 1991 in my life ; you just need lots of cookbooks and a fertile imagination ’ — is that he can see you from his kitchen window . |
| 26 | No matter bow close you are to your home , never lead a suspicious person to it so that he can see you enter an empty house/ flat alone . |
| 27 | he thinks that he can buy I could buy this standing space because I 'm a businessman and I 've got lots of money . |
| 28 | According to the Court of Appeal in Tagro v Cafane this requires the valuer to assume that he can sell it on the open market to a willing buyer , and in so doing to ignore any covenant against assignment which restricts alienation of the landlord 's interest . |
| 29 | If he just wants that he can have it . |
| 30 | Stuart Harper ( Points of View , 6 February ) welcomes the Government 's decision to provide him with data on examination results so that he can use it to make decisions on schools in ‘ the Government 's market-place for education . ’ |