Example sentences of "he can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I reckon they can afford a good feather tye so 's he can 'ave 'er laying down ! " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Executive is not unaware of these problems , and vice president Neil MacFarlane has been delegated to do all he can to obviate them . |
| 4 | He can ignore it or he can take profit . |
| 5 | If he does n't like it , he can lump it . ’ |
| 6 | You might also try to use an edition which your reader can independently get hold of , so that she or he can check what you say . |
| 7 | Yes , well he should n't see , cos he can , he can check his own name ca n't he ? |
| 8 | He does n't understand why the temper tantrums happen , and there 's no way he can control them . |
| 9 | It is only by putting some distance between himself and them that he can discharge his prime responsibility , which is to the country : decisions taken in the House of Commons affect all of us . |
| 10 | ‘ We must love one another or die ’ , wrote W. H. Auden , bringing from E. M. Forster the declaration : ‘ Because he once wrote ‘ We must love one another or die ’ , he can command me to follow him . ’ |
| 11 | He can steady her balance by holding his hands sufficiently close but not grasping her waist as she pirouettes , then grasp it firmly at the end of the turn , maybe to twist her into another pose . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | He can luff you , but rule 40 says that , prior to the start , luffing must be slow and must give you room and opportunity to keep clear . |
| 14 | As the Queen 's representative holding Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom , he can sack his Cabinet , disband the legislature , declare martial law and rule by diktat . |
| 15 | This updated to the 1930s translation by Robert Cogo-Fawcett and Braham Murray affords the leading actor a role into which he can sink his theatrical teeth . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's Garry 's boss and he thinks he can dictate his every move . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the Sheriff Court , there are fourteen days to enter appearance , but to do so here it is necessary to produce to the Sheriff Clerk the Service Copy Writ so that he can satisfy himself from when the fourteen days is calculated . |
| 19 | Yeah well he , he said that he goes there he can grow his vegetables then . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 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 | We know that he can handle everything . ’ |
| 23 | Eurotunnel co-chairman Alastair Morton has a difficult job on his hands but he has shown he can handle it . |
| 24 | Campbell links our problems of leadership with that of Jesus ' loneliness , and comments : ‘ See , he has been there too and because he identifies with it , he can handle it . |
| 25 | I 'm sure he can handle it . |
| 26 | But Dalglish said : ‘ Alan is a brave player and he can handle it . |
| 27 | Richard Dunwoody says there 's no more pressure than usual and he can handle it … |
| 28 | The jet has a high bottom line , the operator has to find as much work for it as he can to spread its costs and make a profitable . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the latter case the special appliances are unlikely to have increased the value of his property , and so he can recover their cost in full . |