Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [vb infin] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Generations of British people have been happily walking into pubs for years and drinking alcohol that they could buy for a fraction of the price in a supermarket or off-licence . |
| 32 | They could apply for a bar licence of course . |
| 33 | To ease the pressure , a truckload of Commandos were taken to the rear where they could relax for a couple of days . |
| 34 | The relationship was initiated or terminated with minimal ceremony though it could endure for a lifetime . |
| 35 | It can prohibit or impose conditions upon activities ; it can impose conditions upon or even revoke authorisation and it could petition for a winding-up of a society 's operation . |
| 36 | He could pass for a European , an Italian or a Frenchman from one of the Southern regions , like Provence . |
| 37 | He could pass for a native of Sweden certainly , and probably of Norway and of Denmark . |
| 38 | Or he could go for a referendum . |
| 39 | The employees were occasionally terrified of Bernard ‘ as if he had one over him , ’ as they described it , but they all knew that however much he might stamp and shout while the anger lasted , he could go for a walk and come back as if nothing had happened . |
| 40 | By biding his time in the immediate aftermath of Mao 's death , he could prepare for a rise to power in the CCP . |
| 41 | My words , he could qualify for a part in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat , it 's really something . |
| 42 | In my view the idea of his being monkish , or that he could have for a moment dreamt of entering a monastery , is not to be entertained , despite the claim of the Reverend William Levy in his Memoir . |
| 43 | If it were a cart then he could ask for a lift and go to the city where there was shelter and plenty to eat . |
| 44 | If there was general agreement , he could ask for a suspension of Anglo-Irish conference meetings from next month , beginning talks before the summer recess . |
| 45 | Almost 70 years ago someone else turned up here , a teacher from Camus 's school , to ask Albert 's mother if he could try for a scholarship to attend high school . |
| 46 | He could relax for a while . |
| 47 | There is nothing in these two pieces that Eckard could not have written , but the sketchiness and even abruptness of their construction , the unenterprising harmony , and the lack of textural variety suggest that , if he did compose them , he dashed them off as fast as he could write for a pupil of little talent and not much discrimination . |