Example sentences of "[pron] could have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could have asked for a gift , I suppose it would have been the ability to make a living as a musician . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's the best birthday present I could have asked for . ’ |
| 3 | I could have asked for far more . |
| 4 | The young are more forgiving than adults , and despite the haughty isolation I had practised , I was far more accepted than I could have hoped for . |
| 5 | The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say . |
| 6 | Our quarry secured a table in the far corner and , as soon as I glimpsed him , I could have laughed for sheer joy . |
| 7 | The skills of the midwives were everything I could have wished for and the NCT made me feel as if I was a useful part of the whole process . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's the best Christmas and birthday present I could have wished for , ’ said Carol . |
| 9 | Of course it was too early in his life to be certain that the gods had called him , but I could have wished for no better career for him than that of a priest-administrator . |
| 10 | I was thinking of all I could have bought for the baby with fifty pounds . |
| 11 | In the apparent absence of identifiable buildings , market-places can only be inferred from the presence of large open areas near the centres of towns , which could have served for periodic markets and fairs . |
| 12 | Nor must one forget the imperial estates , which could have accounted for as much as fifteen per cent of the 1and , ii for which there is evidence in Britain . |
| 13 | Then there arrived a rainbow of stronger colours and she could have wept for its strident spectrum that came to disturb the pastel gavotte of suns , but it had a strength she could not resist and a hundred thousand pullulating meanings that tugged at her . |
| 14 | She could have wept for the agony of raw longing that burned through her . |
| 15 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 16 | She could have lived for years . |
| 17 | In any case , as a result of the growing emphasis on patrilineal descent in all aristocratic families , even the noblest of wives could do less for an eleventh-century lord than she could have done for his grandfather . |
| 18 | Not a pretty death , but as peaceful as she could have hoped for , given the circumstances . |
| 19 | She could have asked for the moon , and seen the clansmen climb on each other 's shoulders to reach it down for her . |
| 20 | She could have tried for goal , but Mike had an easier shot so she gave him a lightning , nearside , under-the-neck pass . |
| 21 | That evening Ben , as a companion , was all that she could have wished for . |
| 22 | He suspected she could have wished for nothing better than to have him confined to bed and reliant on her care . |
| 23 | She was sixteen-years-old but with her slim , petite figure and attractive features she could have passed for twenty . |
| 24 | With Ms Doi 's passion for pachinko and the industry 's reputation for large-scale tax evasion — both public knowledge - who could have asked for more ? |
| 25 | ‘ Hell 's teeth , Fabia , the least you could have done for me was to … ’ |
| 26 | We could have stayed for longer . |
| 27 | One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for . |
| 28 | It 's the best result we could have hoped for . ’ |
| 29 | It 's all we could have hoped for . |
| 30 | ‘ We achieved about as satisfactory a report as we could have hoped for and that has helped us enormously in developing the future of the organisation . |