Example sentences of "he could [verb] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could pass for a European , an Italian or a Frenchman from one of the Southern regions , like Provence . |
| 2 | He could pass for a native of Sweden certainly , and probably of Norway and of Denmark . |
| 3 | Or he could go for a referendum . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By biding his time in the immediate aftermath of Mao 's death , he could prepare for a rise to power in the CCP . |
| 6 | My words , he could qualify for a part in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat , it 's really something . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He could relax for a while . |
| 12 | 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 . |