Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [vb infin] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if I could arrange for the wreck to be taken back — er — back home . |
| 2 | He had me educated so I could speak for the Romanies of today — and of the future . |
| 3 | I began to see that I could ask for the things I needed . |
| 4 | Er … would you by any chance have a room I could take for the night ? |
| 5 | It was nearly bedtime , but she rushed downstairs and asked if she could send for the parson . |
| 6 | Third , you could plump for the isolation tank , but have just enough water for the fish to swim in , and raise the temperature to 5 or 6°s ; above the normal show tank or pond . |
| 7 | You asked me to send a reminder so you could arrange for the stone cross to be cleaned before Remembrance Sunday in November . |
| 8 | As this Department is responsible for the cost of accommodation , which I believe will total £ , I would be grateful if you could arrange for the amount due to be invoiced to the above address for the attention of Miss H White . |
| 9 | I think I 'll give you some homework that you could do for the week . |
| 10 | Anyway , you could ask for the prices to be faxed back to you , or even just posted . |
| 11 | If you attached yourself to his particular rising star , you could shoot for the moon . ’ |
| 12 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 13 | Now we could prepare for the Jubilee without a car& in the world . |
| 14 | We could look for the people who put him up to it . |
| 15 | We could look for the gamma rays that the primordial black holes emit during most of their lifetime . |
| 16 | I do not think we could bid for the money part as Japan has the reputation of trying to get its own way by money . |
| 17 | You agreed that we could try for the purposes of this program to find out what we could about your criminal record and also about your health records . |
| 18 | If we could calculate accurately the consequential change in the electron 's momentum then we could allow for the effects of the collision and our knowledge would still be capable of being made exact . |
| 19 | It was a massive vehicle with a 3.3 litre diesel engine , and it was marvellous because we could park for the night where we happened to be . |
| 20 | Erm and I would see that in terms of a service of thanksgiving , some kind of service of thanksgiving where I could pray with them , we could pray for the child in their arms in the face of the congregation and ask God 's blessing on the life of that child and see that as a celebration of thanksgiving and a , a prayer of blessing for , for that child . |
| 21 | Before the announcement , Baker had an unprecedented meeting on Feb. 14 , at a previously closed nuclear weapons development laboratory , Chelyabinsk-70 , with scientists there , who outlined suggestions for civilian work which they could do for the West . |
| 22 | In the spring of 1956 both London and Washington decided that all they could do for the moment was to allow the Aswan offer to " wither on the vine " . |
| 23 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
| 24 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 25 | She said an ex-boyfriend had a house across Lake Pontchartrain they could use for the weekend . |
| 26 | But profits from their credit card schemes slumped ; they took advantage of a new government ruling that they could charge for the cards , but felt their schemes were newly threatened by the Government 's agreement to allow shops to charge lower prices when customers paid in cash . |
| 27 | It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment . |
| 28 | Donald Goodenough , in his scholarly review of the very technical evidence on this issue comparing the recall of dreams by different personality types , comes to the conclusion that while repression may be responsible for the forgetting of some dreams , it is not feasible that it could account for the majority . |
| 29 | To make the program more useful , it could ask for the names of the input and output files at " run time " . |
| 30 | Indeed in May nineteen ninety Mr gave up his appointment as a teacher in order that he could care for the plaintiff full time . |