Example sentences of "he can [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , well he should n't see , cos he can , he can check his own name ca n't he ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's Garry 's boss and he thinks he can dictate his every move . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yeah well he , he said that he goes there he can grow his vegetables then . |
| 9 | In cases where the plaintiff was not at fault , he can recover his full loss against any of the defendants . |
| 10 | In these latter he can interpose his objections by way of defence , but when , as it common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 11 | In these latter he can interpose his objections by way of defence , but when , as is common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 12 | In these latter he can interpose his objections by way of defence , but when , as is common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 13 | What an acquisition he would be , provided he can curb his over-robust tendencies . |
| 14 | He can be redeemed , he can confess his sins , he can expiate his guilt . |
| 15 | Speedie has yet to score a goal this season and believes if he can break his duck tonight the offers might come flooding in . |
| 16 | Dr Miller is a protean leopard ; he can vary his spots . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He can regard his task as done when he has arrived at entities so simple that they can safely be handed over to physicists . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's possible — he knows I 'll be looking for him — but he 'll have to remain in this country until he can collect his legacy , and by then he 'll expect me to have given up . ’ |
| 20 | Given enough time , he can pull his party together . |
| 21 | In the former the seller can fulfil his contract only by delivery of 500 tons from the specified cargo , whereas in the latter he can fulfil his contract by supplying 500 tons from any source . |
| 22 | Melvyn Hayes played the younger son who wants to give up technical college and the chance of a job as an engineer so that he can fulfil his literary ambitions . |
| 23 | Just how much they obtain there from is known only to themselves , but this could well be a final act born of an inextinguishable instinctive knowledge that there is somewhere a source of power available to the individual whereby he can supplement his capacity to face a fading future , or any other of life 's unwelcome experiences , at least with less apprehension , if not with absolute serenity . |
| 24 | Hauser has been told he can negotiate his own move away from the second division club . |
| 25 | He 's relieved he can pay his bills and keep body and soul reasonably well together , but that 's as far as it goes . |
| 26 | 2.45:OLIVER Sherwood has a high opinion of COPPER MINE and he can open his account over fences following his encouraging third to Fighting Words at Wetherby . |
| 27 | But Lazio 's fanatical support will go loco if he can open his Serie A account . |
| 28 | Before he can open his mouth he gets a simple instruction from each of us , so he stands switching his gaze from her to me and back again like he 's at a tennis match . |
| 29 | However , it could take up to a week before he can open his eyes . |
| 30 | 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 . |