Example sentences of "if he can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 And he 'll be a good doctor if he can cure me
2 If he can do what he 's done with Everton 's rejects , why not give him the whole lot ?
3 I can ask him if he can do something to help the nomes in the quarry .
4 and see if he can do something , well he 's in the , that , I should imagine he knows what they can earn and what they ca n't earn .
5 Well I 've got , I I 'm going to take a , see if he can do something about this cough , cos it 's driving me mad !
6 If he can do it in the Baltic lands , he can do it elsewhere .
7 Should be a good trick if he can do it
8 ‘ If they previously became aware of somebody doing something he should n't , like dealing with an unauthorised supplier , they might ask themselves , ‘ If he can do it , why ca n't I ? ’ .
9 ‘ I saw Michael playing Horatio in Hamlet and thought ‘ If he can do it , so can I. ’
10 ‘ I saw Michael playing Horatio in Hamlet and thought ‘ If he can do it , so can I. ’
11 Yeah but if we can get him onto the computer system he 'll do two days a week if he can do it
12 if he can do it , ai n't that awful education then ?
13 Still , if he can manipulate his Chief Whip like Indiana manipulated his bull whip maybe today he will pull off the kind of last-minute , knife-edge victory the film hero always managed .
14 But if he can manage it , may I please take him over to the island to look at the birds there ?
15 McPherson , who has every intention of returning to Burnbrae next season , if he can manage it , turns out for West against Watsonians at Myreside tomorrow where the home side will have the considerable assistance of Gavin Hastings , who will spend a nail-biting weekend as he waits to hear if he is to captain the Lions , the squad being announced on Monday .
16 He 'll be happier if he can make himself useful . ’
17 Speedie has yet to score a goal this season and believes if he can break his duck tonight the offers might come flooding in .
18 If he can serve one without hurting the other too much , what the harm ? ’
19 If he can tell us the one , surely he can tell us the other .
20 When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’
21 ‘ Mr. Ross goes lieutenant into one of them if he can pass his examination on the morrow ’ , Keith informed his sister , and it would seem that the examining board were duly impressed by their admiral 's anxiety , for they took a chance on this doubtful candidate .
22 Andrew says he 's fitter than last year but doesn.t know if he can beat his wife Sarah who says she thinks her husband might get bogged down in the mud
23 Naturally , if he can borrow he borrows ; but that is a lark that has n't been ‘ on ’ in this country , taking one year with another , for the last ten years or more .
24 Certainly with the additional liability of a periodic tax every ten years no truster will settle funds in a discretionary trust if he can achieve his aims in any other way .
25 No , I 'll have to ring our Carl then , see if he can shift it , I mean she might as well be laid down here watching telly as upstairs laid in bed uncomfortable , you know yeah
26 Indeed it can not have done if he can lay his hands on enough fossils just in a single surface exposure erm to be able to erm measure the properties of populations , it 's clear there must have been millions of specimens of these beasts present at any one time in the lake .
27 But Lazio 's fanatical support will go loco if he can open his Serie A account .
28 I desire you to ask your good father if he can procure me a joiner or two and one or two masons .
29 ‘ Why do n't I have a word with that little sod Ali and see if he can arrange it all ?
30 Nic 's own things back home include a shop and record label , occasional work with The Hummingbirds and three more bands ; Sneeze , the excellently-named Hippy Drivel and Godstar ( who may well feature Evan on drums , if he can dump his own band for a month or so next year ) .
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