Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Do you think we could salvage her for meat if we bled her ? " |
| 2 | He was wanting to know whether he could expect you for lunch . ’ |
| 3 | I think we could all do what Andrew 's suggesting quite easily er I could do it for Geography , erm , I just think it 's making a lot of extra work . |
| 4 | You read it in the papers : it could ruin you for life , witnessing a murder . |
| 5 | They did n't tell her that they wanted to see whether it was still empty , just in case they could have it for Brownie Pack Meetings . |
| 6 | ‘ I wonder , Father , if you could join us for supper ? ’ |
| 7 | We would be grateful if you could check it for accuracy and also for any changes since you first kindly provided the information . |
| 8 | He could sue me for slander over this . ’ |
| 9 | But he realised they needed much more evidence before they could arrest him for murder . |
| 10 | In his own life it had always been he who was the supplicant , telephoning Diana from call boxes on his rounds in the hope of closing some nagging gap of intimacy left at breakfast , and always having to hide the agony of dread that her casualness could cause him for fear of the danger of irritating her . |