Example sentences of "i could [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 2 | I could walk for ever with your arm around me ! ’ |
| 3 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 4 | ‘ I could pay for a hotel , of course , but he 'd find me . ’ |
| 5 | I could sit for hours on buses without worrying about how much time I was wasting . |
| 6 | There was nothing I could do for it this time' ) , but ‘ Is She Really Going Out With Him ? ’ , formerly ditched , now finds itself reinstated , although apparently in a setting designed to tease out its reluctant humour once and for all . |
| 7 | This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment . |
| 8 | There are lots of things I could do for you , ma'am . |
| 9 | ‘ It was the least I could do for them . ’ |
| 10 | Ex-presidential candidate Ross Perot told The Wall Street Journal he did n't mean he would take John Akers ' job when he told TV host Larry King that ‘ If there 's something I could do for IBM , well , I owe them that forever . ’ |
| 11 | So now I needed a job that I could do for approximately four months — something well-paid , light , congenial , preferably among colleagues with a physical inability to drop their eyes below shoulder level . |
| 12 | ‘ The things I could do for him , ’ she sighed . |
| 13 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 14 | I did n't recognise him , nor did there seem to be anything I could do for him . |
| 15 | Oh I know what I could do for that . |
| 16 | Later I could arrange for a car to take you on to Luxor . |
| 17 | He asked me if I could arrange for somebody thoroughly trustworthy to visit the premises , telling me that he had given the key to a neighbour . |
| 18 | I wondered if I could arrange for the wreck to be taken back — er — back home . |
| 19 | So is there anyone out there that has a similar machine that is now ‘ surplus to requirements that I could cannibalise for parts ? |
| 20 | He had me educated so I could speak for the Romanies of today — and of the future . |
| 21 | I always held that view and did all I could to press for an election before Christmas in order that we might get a majority large enough to stand the racket . " |
| 22 | That slow laugh came again , but this time I could identify for sure the menace and the mockery in it . |
| 23 | ‘ Being best man was more than I could hope for . |
| 24 | An enigma was all I could hope for . |
| 25 | My studies were n't going so well ; a 2.2 was probably the best I could hope for . |
| 26 | It was more than I could hope for . |
| 27 | He was Raven Maize , a mysterious man with ‘ Together Forever ’ , a club hit in '89 , and far more soulful than the pristine work he offers at the moment : ‘ In those days I could record for nothing . |
| 28 | I spent the time making the house look nice ; I wanted him to know just what a lovely home I could build for us . |
| 29 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 30 | Sandy was going to the US and I asked if I could carry for him the next year , but everybody was asking so I did n't get very far . |