Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could introduce it for a trial period , we could |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Well now , I could see her for a moment . |
| 5 | Yes , said Sister , Mrs Downes had been remarkably lucky , really ; and , yes , Sergeant Lewis could see her for a short while . |
| 6 | ‘ You could meet me for a drink sometimes . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Right now I was too busy working on where he could take her for a honeymoon . |
| 9 | This was n't exactly comfortable , but he could stand it for a while longer . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | ‘ I can hardly wait , ’ he said drily , ‘ but perhaps we could leave it for a couple of years ? ’ |
| 12 | A studied , casual flick of the quiff ; only a sap like Ms Rosenbloom could mistake it for a gesture of surprise . |
| 13 | What I saw that morning could spoil me for a sexual relationship forever . |
| 14 | 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 . |