Example sentences of "[pron] could [vb infin] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 2 | I could sit for hours on buses without worrying about how much time I was wasting . |
| 3 | Ex-presidential candidate Ross Perot told The Wall Street Journal he did n't mean he would take John Akers ' job when he told TV host Larry King that ‘ If there 's something I could do for IBM , well , I owe them that forever . ’ |
| 4 | This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment . |
| 5 | So is there anyone out there that has a similar machine that is now ‘ surplus to requirements that I could cannibalise for parts ? |
| 6 | So I could have for instance thirty two tape devices running in parallel to back up my database . |
| 7 | You 'd be independent and I could babysit for Maggie . |
| 8 | I could sue for slander . ’ |
| 9 | To him at least I could turn for assistance . |
| 10 | I asked if I could wait for Frankie but Mum , who I 'd thought was asleep , piped up at that . |
| 11 | ‘ I could wait for dark , bypass the current in the fence , climb over , sneak up to the house , stick a bug on one of the windows and hope they would n't see it . ’ |
| 12 | Liese explained how I could look for answers ; but first , silently , I had to formulate my question . |
| 13 | I could see for miles . |
| 14 | The evening ‘ tide ’ had gone out and I could see for miles . |
| 15 | She would sit and answer back , stripping away his pomposity as she would the layers of an onion , before going into a sulk which could last for days . |
| 16 | A service between midnight and 0700 should be the responsibility of family health services authorities , which could arrange for visits and perhaps a night time surgery . |
| 17 | This ranged from yellow gold with comparatively low values for silver , through pale yellow electrum with a higher silver content , to white gold which could pass for silver . |
| 18 | Of course there are some woods in the ebony family which could pass for rosewood , and vice versa , and as this is a prototype instrument , anything 's possible . |
| 19 | Phase changes provide a possible mechanism which could account for subsidence as well as uplift , depending on whether the crystalline transformations involved give rise to more , or less , compact mineral structures . |
| 20 | With more hair she could pass for Springsteen being playful in the dark . |
| 21 | She could sit for hours in the sun these days , content to watch Pilade play , doing nothing whatsoever . |
| 22 | Yeah , she could go for Andy . |
| 23 | asked where she could pay for sex in London . |
| 24 | The murdering sun had dipped below the horizon , and this was the time when she could forage for food . |
| 25 | Mrs Lindo , however , had sworn that she could account for Drew 's movements up to 5pm that evening . |
| 26 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 27 | Occasionally , he took his hand off the gear lever and reached out for hers , and sometimes he glanced towards her with a look so full of tenderness that she felt she could weep for joy . |
| 28 | Which was more than she could say for Uriah Colclough , a spare , already balding man in his mid-thirties who , having been torn all his life between a religious vocation and a natural Colclough desire to make money , lived like an industrialist but dressed like a vicar . |
| 29 | From the slight incline where she sat she could see for miles the neatly sown fields , the healthy crops and the spotless cattle . |
| 30 | She was to discover that she could see for miles from the attic windows — almost the whole of Bristol . |