Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] [pers pn] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't do it ! ’ she had to tell her , and , when her sister 's look suddenly became hostile , ‘ I 'm sure if you wrote to Mr Gajdusek , or phoned him — or I could do it for you , ’ she volunteered hastily , not wanting to be bad friends with her , now of all times . |
| 2 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
| 3 | And Lawrence confirmed yesterday : ‘ I would not discount making a move if I could get him for something like £700,000 . ’ |
| 4 | I could wordprocess it for you |
| 5 | I did n't realise that I could enjoy it for myself , not just for him . |
| 6 | I wish I could see you for myself all the same . ’ |
| 7 | Marie yelled after me to wait but I did n't want to talk to her about it so I chucked my sandwich-box over to her and told her she could eat them for me . |
| 8 | She could choose it for herself — money was no object . |
| 9 | At least , she could understand him for her uncle , later to be the 6th Duke , was deaf as well . |
| 10 | So I went down and Mr at that time was Mayor of Willenhall , a very influential man , and he was er over and er his son had to became in charge , but anyway I went to see him it was Mr and er about it and he says er well we got er a order for four locks here , he says er I wonder if er you could quote me for them ? |
| 11 | Then you could edit them for her , if you feel you are willing for her to use them … . |
| 12 | you could chuck them for her and she used to go after them . |
| 13 | You could do it for me ! |
| 14 | Well in those days beastlings was a lux it was n't a luxury because you could get it for nothing . |
| 15 | ‘ You said you wanted to meet my fiancée so that you could judge her for yourself . |
| 16 | You could see them for yourself , past the next bit of wood . |
| 17 | If only we could fix it for you , Ted … |
| 18 | If we could taking it for her it 'd be worth it . |
| 19 | I told them that at one we 'd be going away on another job cos we 'd got another job booked in , but in fact I reorganized everything so that in fact we could do it for them . |
| 20 | ‘ We could catalogue them for you . |
| 21 | The landlord said that we could have the hall on Sunday evenings to run the club , and we could have it for nothing as he would make his money on increased bar sales . |
| 22 | When I go up to the farm to get Mummy 's eggs , I 'll ask if we could use it for our meetings and … ’ |
| 23 | And with it being Tuesday it means that we 've our missing persons feature , where are you now , round about three thirty today , so if you 've lost touch with a friend , relative or neighbour we could find them for you if they 're still in the East Midlands . |
| 24 | If you 've lost touch with a friend relative or neighbour we could find them for you this afternoon if they 're still in the East Midlands . |
| 25 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 26 | Even Samuel Montagu had said the purpose of the Crown Suppliers was to provide for departments more efficiently than they could do it for themselves or from any other source . |
| 27 | Perhaps he could exchange it for something more portable . |