Example sentences of "man could [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were paid about double what a skilled man could expect for a fifty-hour week in return for working part-time at something that they enjoyed . |
| 2 | Her husband later told a news conference : ‘ She was the best thing that any man could wish for . ’ |
| 3 | And Gemma was surely the most agreeable girl a man could wish for . |
| 4 | To have important business in one 's life and such a woman to return to : that , surely , was all a man could ask for ? |
| 5 | By gaw , he 's a topper and ah would n't sell 'im for any money , No man could ask for a better friend . " |
| 6 | Everything a man could ask for . ’ |
| 7 | Dysart had been , over the years , as loyal a friend as any man could ask for . |
| 8 | ‘ A man could kill for that much . |
| 9 | Until 1861 a man could hang for engaging in homosexual relations , and as recently as the early 1970s many doctors still regarded homosexuality as an illness to be treated by electric shock therapy . |
| 10 | Once upon a time a man could hang for setting fire to a hayrick ! |