Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 2 | Sometimes you could only have them for a day or two before passing them on . |
| 3 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 4 | With × 12 the haze is much more pronounced , and an unwary observer could easily mistake it for a comet . |
| 5 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 6 | She could hardly thank them for the tears in her eyes . |
| 7 | ‘ One is that , like I said , I could probably frame you for the kiosk and the burglary . |
| 8 | ‘ You could n't stand it for a second . ’ |
| 9 | I knew he was so incensed he could n't control himself ; I could n't blame him for the fury which inhabited him . |
| 10 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 11 | Almost that , and I want to say that I have some sympathy for the lady who has children and just could n't entertain them for the day . |
| 12 | Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday . |
| 13 | I know you could n't hurt her for the world . |
| 14 | She looked at him as though in understanding , but she could n't answer him for a moment for there were so many things whirling around in her mind : that doctor and her Emma … |
| 15 | well you could but you could n't sell it for a reasonable price . |
| 16 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |