Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [vb infin] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I debated whether to be sick or not myself , and decided that I could hold out for another half hour . |
| 2 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 3 | In the end my parents agreed that I could go up for one year instead of being at the Royal College of Music . |
| 4 | I got back , I could find out for certain who had told who . |
| 5 | The remaining things she could come back for any day . |
| 6 | Maybe I thought we could make up for all those afternoons . |
| 7 | So if we could lie down for twenty minutes sometime in the afternoon or early evening , then we would lengthen the spine to support us more efficiently for the latter part of the day . |
| 8 | No master of a workhouse was allowed ‘ on any pretence ’ to confine by chains or manacles any poor person of sound mind ; by implication , they could do so for those who were not . |
| 9 | Women who have been probed wish they could come back for more . ’ |
| 10 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 11 | It could become home for fifteen hundred naval and industrial shipping experts , plus administrative staff under plans by the society to relocate from London and Croydon . |
| 12 | Ruth heartily wished that he could stay there for good . |
| 13 | It was not worth the sulk and you 're ashamed of me are n't you that he could keep up for three days when required . |