Example sentences of "she can [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She can avoid punishment by appropriate actions .
2 Yes but she can give advice .
3 Theoretically , she can dissolve Parliament without advice , but the right has been in abeyance for years .
4 She can restore virginity not just in the soul — well , anyone could do that — but in the body , if you pray enough and feel sufficiently remorseful .
5 Can you please ensure their views are passed to Karen as soon as possible so she can tell Bodoni ?
6 It was all right for Annabel — she 's only six , and as long as she can feed sugar to the milkman 's horse every morning she 's happy .
7 If I said to my mother , ‘ I 'm longing for when he or she can do so-and-so , ’ she would say , ‘ Do n't wish the time away ! ’
8 Rosalba closed her eyes , and beseeched heaven , not for the first time , ‘ Dear Lady , Lady who has known tears and cares and the love of God on earth , please help Serafina and give her lots of milk so she can make money and give her strength and stop people being unkind to her .
9 Valya Schooling has been told by Ukraine government officials that she can become owner of the 6,000-acre property confiscated from her family after the Russian Revolution .
10 Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) .
11 So clever — the ex-air hostess has taken French lessons so she can order couture in the lingua franca
12 The advantage to the depositor is that the certificate is tradable so that , although the deposit is made for a fixed period , he or she can have use of the funds earlier by selling the certificate to a third party at a price which will reflect the period to run to maturity and the current level of interest rates .
13 Midwifery staff are asked to give this to the mother sufficiently ahead of her discharge from hospital so that she can ask midwifery or paediatric staff any questions which might occur to her or her partner .
14 Now a woman is not such that she can signify authority ; that is to say , she does not have the sign-quality 9 which could signify authority .
15 for she can catch flesh in its wandering ;
16 One is the actual career breaks that happen for any woman , unless she is in a very highly paid job , where she can afford child care of her own , or unless she 's in those very few jobs in this country which actually erm are with employees who are responsible enough to either provide their own child care , or to allow women those sorts of career breaks in order to bring up children .
17 Angela and er Angela and I 'll tell you what she can come anytime she wants
18 If a woman needs to go underground from the unsafety of her own home , she can find sanctuary in the network of " safe houses " set up by the Women 's Aid Federation .
19 How can a poor mother keep the bottle ( waiting for the unknown diarrhoea episode ) when she can get cabbage or tomatoes with that money ?
20 But at least she can get food here
21 Kate 's social worker organised nursery places for her two small children while she did her A-levels , and she has subsequently gone to a university where she can get creche facilities .
22 P&O CONTAINERS have shipped a yacht half way around the world so that she can take part in a round-the=world race !
23 I hold it out to her so she can take lOp , and she takes the lot .
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