Example sentences of "they could [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great Labour party — which brought together militants , because it thought that they knew what they could do for the working people of this country — is scornfully setting democracy aside . |
| 2 | Before the announcement , Baker had an unprecedented meeting on Feb. 14 , at a previously closed nuclear weapons development laboratory , Chelyabinsk-70 , with scientists there , who outlined suggestions for civilian work which they could do for the West . |
| 3 | In the spring of 1956 both London and Washington decided that all they could do for the moment was to allow the Aswan offer to " wither on the vine " . |
| 4 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
| 5 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 6 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 7 | She said an ex-boyfriend had a house across Lake Pontchartrain they could use for the weekend . |
| 8 | But profits from their credit card schemes slumped ; they took advantage of a new government ruling that they could charge for the cards , but felt their schemes were newly threatened by the Government 's agreement to allow shops to charge lower prices when customers paid in cash . |