Example sentences of "could [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Erm , clearly we 've got enough op , it would seem that if we could recruit somebody for the rest of this year , and er which would help us get our times down , if in if in fact we were able to recruit somebody who was instantly productive , which is not all that likely .
2 We could introduce it for a trial period , we could
3 ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses .
4 And if you could watch him for a while longer , you might discover just what he — a descendant of herd-living , company-loving , fast and flighty wild horses — feels about domestication .
5 Side by side with Voltaire and Kant , with their admiration of constructive and public-spirited autocrats , were others such as Helvétius , Holbach , Diderot and Rousseau , who refused to believe that this form of rule , however ‘ enlightened ’ , could do anything for the liberation of the individual subject .
6 And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them .
7 Riven could see nothing for the water in his eyes , but when the dark shape of the hull loomed up he pushed Madra towards it .
8 I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit .
9 ‘ Well now , I could see her for a moment .
10 Yes , said Sister , Mrs Downes had been remarkably lucky , really ; and , yes , Sergeant Lewis could see her for a short while .
11 ‘ You could meet me for a drink sometimes . ’
12 If you could take them for a walk every day , from three to half-past four or something like that , I 'd be terribly grateful .
13 Right now I was too busy working on where he could take her for a honeymoon .
14 I started playing when I was seven , so by the time The Stones happened it was not difficult for me to play , so I could appreciate it for the music alone .
15 This was n't exactly comfortable , but he could stand it for a while longer .
16 and this is why military strategies have always said we were gon na get we could hold them for a year , two years maybe three , but in the preventional warfare we would start loosing and military strategy have always said along that it would probably be somebody like France or us that would first use the nuclear weapon
17 ‘ I can hardly wait , ’ he said drily , ‘ but perhaps we could leave it for a couple of years ? ’
18 A studied , casual flick of the quiff ; only a sap like Ms Rosenbloom could mistake it for a gesture of surprise .
19 And I rang them and see if I could cancel it for the Monday and he only , the doctor does n't sit on the Monday , so I 've got
20 What I saw that morning could spoil me for a sexual relationship forever .
21 So that they could get it for the turn of the new leaf of the quarter .
22 If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me .
23 Nine days after taking the drug at a friend 's 21st birthday party Rachel , 25 , still has vivid flashbacks which could haunt her for the rest of her life .
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