Example sentences of "he can [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I desire you to ask your good father if he can procure me a joiner or two and one or two masons . |
| 2 | He can bear me no malice . |
| 3 | In that time he has put unemployment up by nearly 1 million , so he can offer us no lectures on the subject of unemployment . |
| 4 | When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’ |
| 5 | if he has any queries he can give me a ring but |
| 6 | He can give her a lift on the back of his scooter . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Knowing does n't make it any easier for me , but I hope he can give her a reason for living . |
| 8 | So he can give it a final tug to check it is closed . |
| 9 | He can give us a wonderful tool , a wonderful one . |
| 10 | As the Leader of the House is here , perhaps he can give us an idea of when a statement will be made . |
| 11 | Palace boss Steve Coppell says of the striker : ‘ He can give us the pace Ian Wright used to offer . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If he can tell us the one , surely he can tell us the other . |
| 16 | If he can tell us the one , surely he can tell us the other . |
| 17 | He can tell you a tale or two about our friend in the hut . " |
| 18 | He said , " Well Jose is a bit better player than he was two years ago and he can carry me a bit " . |
| 19 | He can buy me a bloody beer . |
| 20 | He can have it every night . |
| 21 | But , of course , he can help us no further , being torn to death by Gaveston 's dogs . |
| 22 | ( Ask Ian Mackenzie if he can sell you a bag ) . |
| 23 | Your headmaster says he can get you a place . |
| 24 | Quickly he records a message of warning , but before he can launch it the Daleks locate and kill him . |
| 25 | Listen , I ca n't stay for long , but I 've twisted Dmitri 's arm and he can find you a couple of tickets for Hedda ! |
| 26 | The outcome will be that he claims he can book you a flight only to the international airport on Sal Island . |
| 27 | Now Rupert 's Minister for Sport , he can fiddle her a visa . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps the contributor to the " Glasgow Geography " in 1825 writing of the Scottish peasant was correct when he said , " By the time he has reached the age of ten years , he has by heart , as it is called , the whole Catechism , the metrical version of the Psalms , and is pretty well versed in the Bible … and by the time he arrives at the years of maturity , to the " big ha' Bible once his father 's pride , and the Westminster Confession of Faith , he has added Pool , Henry 's Commentary , Gillespie 's Aaron 's Rod Blossoming , the Faithful Contendings of the Church of Scotland , Boston 's Fourfold State , and if he can afford them the works of Jonathan Edwards . " |