Example sentences of "[pron] can [vb infin] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can stand up for myself . |
| 2 | I can stand up for myself . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I can go on for a few more days . |
| 5 | I can go out for the odd meal without suffering from the binge factor because we had a dessert . |
| 6 | If there 's any way I can make up for what 's happened , Mr Calder , then I shall be only too pleased to do it . ’ |
| 7 | I can stick up for myself ! |
| 8 | Erm I have four or five people I can take on for any one of those companies so nobody 's in competition with |
| 9 | I want you to have it until I can come back for you . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , Charles , if there 's anything else I can tell you , or I can find out for you , let me know . ’ |
| 11 | But I can find out for definite later on . |
| 12 | I bought a pass for the swimming baths so I can get in for free . |
| 13 | Rebecca 's life could be made ten times easier with the programs I can work out for her . ’ |
| 14 | Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French . |
| 15 | The Hybrid Bill procedure is also relatively speedy — 14 months from the first Channel Tunnel Bill to the final Act — when compared with major pubic inquiries which can drag on for several years . |
| 16 | Yes because in the summer I mean you , some time in the , in this next term would be the ideal thing really because that , if she can stay on for the summer term |
| 17 | I like to put the television on , as there 's usually a very good programme at twelve ten like there is supposedly Rainbow today , but there is n't , which I find very useful for my toddler while I 'm getting lunch for the baby , myself and her , so she can sit down for twenty minutes , there can be a few minutes peace , and there 's just you know it 's just not on . |
| 18 | She can go out for with some friends eh , every time she wants . |
| 19 | The therapist can not win out against death , but he or she can win out for life , for a sense of the real , for the kind of growth that truly matters ; dealing as it does with the evaluation of ways to love and hate , with the meanings of human conduct , an appreciation of human nature , and the succession of the generations . |
| 20 | She can come round for quarter an hour if she wants . |
| 21 | she can get on for an hour |
| 22 | On April 26 it was announced that Tesfaye Dinka , Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs and a US-trained economist , had been made Prime Minister ( a post vacant since November 1989 ) , with a brief to form a new Cabinet composed of individuals " who can stand up for Ethiopian unity " . |
| 23 | This state of things must indeed seem strange to the young people of today who can fly off for a summer in Katmandu with scarcely a quiver of apprehension or pause for wonder . |
| 24 | Is there any specific item you can spell out for us that additional costs . |
| 25 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 26 | It 's not actually automatic because you can stay in for those extra up up to five years if you so choose . |
| 27 | If you missed the last two issues but want to enter the competition , you can send off for vouchers 1 and 2 . |
| 28 | If you do n't receive one , do n't forget — all you have to do is buy a selected Black & Decker power tool from one of the above-mentioned stores , and you can send off for one , too . |
| 29 | but it does n't go into it very thoroughly but erm you can send off for like an information pack . |
| 30 | You can go up for the day . |