Example sentences of "can [pron] [vb infin] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You approach the reception desk : ‘ Where can I go for breakfast ? ’ you ask . |
| 2 | What can I do for Cathy before I die ? |
| 3 | Can I stay for lunch ? ’ |
| 4 | My arms are n't big enough to be wings ; what can I use for wings ? |
| 5 | What can I have for breakfast today ? |
| 6 | 15 If one cricket ball costs $3 how many can I buy for $57 ? |
| 7 | How many pears can I buy for £1.08 if 70 almonds cost the same as 50 chestnuts , 48 chestnuts cost the same as one pomegranate , 18 pomegranates cost the same as 28 lemons , 10 lemons cost the same as 25 pears , and 108 almonds cost 9p ? |
| 8 | Can I opt for tuberculosis for my five-year-old daughter , even supposing my husband and I include the possibility in our life options ? |
| 9 | Can you stay for dinner ? ’ |
| 10 | Can you hope for Heaven , then ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ When can you leave for Helsinki ? ’ |
| 12 | Can you search for words ? |
| 13 | If you 're wanting to take er early retirement and erm you 're wanting enhancement say you retire at fifty nine and you want some enhancement , can you ask for enhancement sort of up to sixty five or has it only got to be up to sixty ? |
| 14 | Can you remember for example , given the the levels of relief you are advocating are acceptable on the blue route , how such roads such a link as an alternative to the western link would perform . |
| 15 | Can you look for promotion , a better salary scale , a higher grade ? ’ |
| 16 | Can we break for coffee ? |
| 17 | Can we break for tea now come back at twenty five to four . |
| 18 | When can we hope for Byrd as well ? |
| 19 | Now what can we do for Jane ? you 're you 're wheezing ? |
| 20 | Now what can we do for Jane ? you 're you 're wheezing ? |
| 21 | What can we do for members in small workplaces where even basic health and safety standards are exempt by law ? |
| 22 | So the question he goes on to is , given its civilizing restraining role how did , what er , explanation can we give for religion in general ? |
| 23 | Nor can we appeal for explanation to the notion of Scaevola as provincial practitioner . |
| 24 | How can we write for instruments if we know nothing about them ? |
| 25 | Can we wait for prosperity and education to keep mankind in check ; so the humble villager , the wretched dweller in the shantytown does n't choose the traditional , unthinking , long-term option of a dozen children , the decision which in the long term destroys both them and theirs ? |
| 26 | How , she asks , can we account for evil in a world that has been created by a good God ? |
| 27 | What can we have for dinner ? |
| 28 | HOW CAN WE WORK FOR CHANGE ? |
| 29 | That 's the new team … so what are their plans … what do they believe in … what can they do for Oxford United … |
| 30 | If the Home Secretary is not to be guided by the judges on retribution and deterrence , where else can he look for guidance ? |