Example sentences of "he can [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , David Hackett Fischer maintains that growing old ‘ is an experience profoundly different today from what it was two or three centuries ago ’ , although the only explanation he can offer is one grounded in modernization theory . |
| 2 | Having perfected this petulant stance , all he can do is reiterate it — with a self-deprecating acknowledgement of the onset of self-parody : ‘ Stop Me if You Think You 've Heard This One Before ’ , ‘ Sweet and Tender Hooligan ’ , where the chorus is simply ‘ et cetera , et cetera ’ … |
| 3 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 4 | All he can do is resort to his native cunning and to prayer . |
| 5 | And the worst thing he can do is follow their advice . |
| 6 | All he can do is moan with pain . |
| 7 | The least he can do is respond immediately with a carefully worded personal letter . |
| 8 | The least he can do is buy us a decent lunch . ’ |
| 9 | It turns out that the best he can do is to form his expectation of and in accordance with the following formulae : where |
| 10 | What he can do is instill a sense of purpose and energy that 's been missing for years . |
| 11 | what he can do is have something when he gets up , rather than the old |
| 12 | All he can remember is a green dragon and a pool of blood . |
| 13 | But if , as in the present case , all he can say is : ‘ I saw him once in Peckham High Street and someone told me his name was Joseph Fergus ’ then there is obviously a weak link in the case : how is it to be shown that the accused is the same man that was pointed out to the witness as Fergus ' ? |
| 14 | Wilkos recent statements about having to sell players before he can buy is just the number of players he has … not that we have nt got the money . |
| 15 | She added : ‘ The fact that he can write is a good sign . |
| 16 | In the eighteenth century Boswell describes his attack of gonorrhoea , which is complicated by an attack of epididymo-orchitis , and , after a miserable six weeks of self-imposed confinement at home , rejoices that he is cured because all he can see is a slight ‘ gleet ’ which he is happy to ignore . |
| 17 | ‘ Look at the fly ; all he can feel , all he can see is the table . |
| 18 | She ends up sitting on him , facing the small window from where the children can now be heard playing , so that ail he can see is her lean and sculpted back , the ridge of her spine showing like knuckles on a fist . |
| 19 | Gunn is expressing what he can see is a completely irrational attraction . |
| 20 | But for farmer Charles Peers the amount of straw he can sell is just a fraction of what 's left over after each field is harvested . |
| 21 | All he can hear is a voice inside him saying , ‘ Just look at his work . |
| 22 | Since the particles emitted by a black hole come from a region of which the observer has very limited knowledge , he can not definitely predict the position or the velocity of a particle or any combination of the two ; all he can predict is the probabilities that certain particles will be emitted . |
| 23 | His jaw has been snapped in two and the only food he can take is liquid . |