Example sentences of "man who can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 2 | Every man who can beat me to the Windmill is excused all fatigues . |
| 3 | Even today , with the growth of computers in every branch of business , it is rare to find a computer man who can explain himself in simple English . |
| 4 | Then you 'll relax and it 'll happen — then you 'll stop being one of them miserable nymphos who hop from man to man , hoping for Mr Right , the man who can satisfy her . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ So ye 've reached the same conclusion as Ah have , that Mario Ángel Gómez is the navigator she referred to as the man who can lead her to that icebound ship . |
| 6 | Even if unemployment is only part of the problem , it seems to me that the man who can busy himself cutting peats , or growing crops , or handling stock , is less likely to be depressed , less likely to feel that his life has no meaning , than a man who has empty days to fill in the back streets of an industrial town |
| 7 | ‘ He has always enjoyed a drink , and I 've never met a man who can hold his liquor better , ’ he says . |
| 8 | ‘ And I believe he is the man who can win it for us at Elland Road . |
| 9 | His letter was hearty , breezy , man-to-man : let it never be thought , it seemed to say , that I am the man who can put your academic career on the chopping block by a couple of words in the right places . |
| 10 | What she needs is a hard working man who can let her blossom as a person . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The more reason I should be there , too , ’ said Hotspur tartly , ‘ for a man who can turn his coat once can turn it again as readily . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not every man who can say he 's been frigged over his own office desk , is it ? ’ |