Example sentences of "he can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can normally hold his drink ’ |
| 2 | Within their firm containment , he can slowly learn about holding mixed feelings — loving and hating the same person . |
| 3 | I had hoped that the allegations of fraud might make our path easier on this one , but the Admiral himself admits that there really is no legal transgression that he can yet point to . |
| 4 | All the same , he can scarcely refuse to help Miriam in her career , it seems to him , just because he himself has turned his back on that world and its career-making . |
| 5 | But to a geologist it is about a thousand times shorter than he can ordinarily measure ! |
| 6 | If there is what is regarded by the law as an office then public law remedies are available to protect its holder who is entitled to natural justice ; he can thus regain his office if he is dismissed without a hearing . |
| 7 | At this stage he can either pull with both hands sharply in a downwards direction , taking the attacker to the floor , or simply twist his open-palm grab and convert it into an arm lock , thus causing the attacker excruciating pain . |
| 8 | so he can either sleep in bed with his dad and J J or but they make him up a bed on that . |
| 9 | Well he 's got two choices , he can either eat them or starve . |
| 10 | If the developer owns the land , he can either grant a long-term lease at a nominal rent to a management company , or else transfer the freehold to the management company . |
| 11 | He can either do it or not . |
| 12 | Faced with examples like this , the semanticist has traditionally taken one of two tacks : he can either hold that there are two distinct senses of the word and , which is thus simply ambiguous , or he can claim that the meanings of words are in general vague and protean and are influenced by collocational environments . |
| 13 | The reason for this is that following the breach of condition which leads to termination , the innocent party has alternative remedies : he can either affirm or terminate the contract . |
| 14 | So he is now in a position he can either take them to court or he 's forgetting it . |
| 15 | This leaves the Energy Secretary , Mr John Wakeham , with two options : he can either agree to underwrite any cost escalations in nuclear handling costs after privatisation , or he can swallow his pride , and pull all nuclear plant out of the impending sale . |
| 16 | In order to get a patient actively involved in considering explanations for his behaviour it can be useful to offer him several possibilities to examine , especially if these include one or two explanations which are clearly unlikely and which he can easily refute . |
| 17 | The believer can be misled about the nature of service , and because these roles are very limited , he can easily become a spectator . |
| 18 | The patient 's engagement in such exploration may sometimes be facilitated by including a clearly inappropriate possibility that he can easily reject . |
| 19 | Subsequently A finds the original certificate and , either because he has forgotten about the sale to B or because he is a rogue , then purports to sell the shares to C. The company will rightly refuse to register C whose only remedy will be against A ( who may by this time be a man-of-straw ) unless he can successfully invoke against the company the so-called doctrine of estoppel by share certificate . |
| 20 | He can also move his hip and knee into the extended position , with the physiotherapist carefully guiding his leg or controlling his foot . |
| 21 | No he can be an American dream and he can also represent Russia because they 're different things that you 're talking about . |
| 22 | Not only can Jesus heal people , but he can also conquer death . |
| 23 | He can also choose whether to work . |
| 24 | Even if it can be said that , in the course of his duty , a policeman will become hardened to certain sorts of ritual taunts and insults , there is no reason to doubt that he can also experience harassment and distress . |
| 25 | And he can also appear to place the novel in a state of suspension . |
| 26 | He can also make a point of talking to Mr Yeltsin and other republican leaders to offer them moral support . |
| 27 | He can also make policy decisions and give effect to them , as , for instance , was often done when prosecutions were not brought for attempted suicide . |
| 28 | He can also make policy decisions and give effect to them … " |
| 29 | For he can also imitates at least three different kinds of train . |
| 30 | He can also whistle . ’ |