Example sentences of "it can [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War .
2 It has all the paraphernalia of a public inquiry and after all the necessary preparations are made it can go on for weeks .
3 It can go on for years before families are forced to acknowledge the truth …
4 There will be video feedback too , and those who feel up to it can go in for the local skischool giant slalom race .
5 Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits .
6 It can single out for special treatment the special aggravating features of a crime .
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