Example sentences of "could [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the gravityless environment of the hulk any unexploded bolts or similar projectiles could ricochet unpredictably for a long time within a confined space . |
| 2 | I wish you could stay here for ever . |
| 3 | No , it was too much for him to understand ; he could stay here for years and never understand it . |
| 4 | She thought she could stay here for ever in this big solid house where Thomas translated the world for her . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps I could stay here for a day or two , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Afraid that she might have hurt Nora , who was sitting very quietly , Louise added , ‘ Of course , she 'll miss you but I do think she could stay on for a little longer , to see what might happen . ’ |
| 7 | Ruth heartily wished that he could stay there for good . |
| 8 | Because there is little wind that high to split the particles up , it could stay there for years . |
| 9 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 10 | Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector . |
| 11 | Maybe I thought we could make up for all those afternoons . |
| 12 | Those councils which wanted to could make up for lost grant by increasing rate levels , and many did so , so that overall levels of spending did not fall significantly . |
| 13 | But even that conciliatory gesture never really convinced me that Don Bradman 's signature could make up for that of Jack Hobbs . |
| 14 | But no amount of talking could make up for the unhappiness and lost innocence of my childhood . |
| 15 | The government has a list of long-promised infrastructure projects that could make up for the fall in private investment , though a bitter dispute in progress between the government and foreign banks that have lent 20 billion baht ( $187m ) for an elevated motorway in Bangkok may make finance for future projects harder to come by . |
| 16 | Perhaps now she could make up for her crime against society . |
| 17 | In September 1989 the Libyan news agency JANA said that Italy could make up for its " wrongdoing " during the colonial period-particularly the deportation to Italy between 1911 and 1942 of some 5,000 Libyans as forced labour-by speedily paying the compensation demanded by Libya , which regarded as inadequate a settlement of dollars 6,700 million reached in 1956 . |
| 18 | However , Benzie felt that issuance by important European issuers such as banks , industrial companies , mortgage institutions and to a lesser extent governments could make up for these . |
| 19 | Maybe this idea could catch on for older properties ? |
| 20 | Former Middlesbrough midfielder Mark Burke could line up for Wolves . |
| 21 | The method of ‘ verstehen ’ could be quite insufficiently explanatory , or could fall back for explanation on a ( theoretically circular ) ‘ informing spirit ’ . |
| 22 | The Case of the Mystery Memo had become , within a day , a little drama he could act out for his colleagues . |
| 23 | Therefore , only glutamine and , to a lesser extent , phenylalanine could substitute directly for His197 in the interaction with CP 96345 ( Table 1 ) . |
| 24 | If you could qualify either for a reduced pension of your own or a dependant 's addition , the higher of the two would be paid . |
| 25 | Before he could head off for the dustbin , Elinor gripped his wrist firmly . |
| 26 | I 'll leave you a spare key for the office — then you could lock up for me when you leave . ’ |
| 27 | I itemise below the categories of work we could carry out for you in relation to establishing and developing the early stages of your group 's development programme , together with fee estimates . |
| 28 | Under this custom the colt 's owner paid a shilling over and above the actual cost of shoeing so that the men could send out for six pints of beer as a reward for the extra effort involved . |
| 29 | ‘ You could watch out for them from across the street , ’ replies Howard . |
| 30 | They have left , believing they could do better for themselves elsewhere , and then having gone they dream always of returning . |