Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if I could arrange for the wreck to be taken back — er — back home . |
| 2 | He had me educated so I could speak for the Romanies of today — and of the future . |
| 3 | I began to see that I could ask for the things I needed . |
| 4 | Er … would you by any chance have a room I could take for the night ? |
| 5 | He attempted to preserve from what he called the ‘ growing appetites of sacrilegious cormorants ’ Church revenues which could pay for the education of talented children of poor families . |
| 6 | Anyway I have a team of red filth which could pass for the Busby scum so now I can re-enact those battles of yore ! |
| 7 | As was suggested above , there were , within the internal development of psychoanalysis , new findings which necessitated a new conceptualization which could account for the compulsion to repeat unpleasurable experiences . |
| 8 | People got snappy , and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave . |
| 9 | It was nearly bedtime , but she rushed downstairs and asked if she could send for the parson . |
| 10 | Roman Wyatt … there was a man who could model for the hero of any romantic novel , if , that was , you liked all that raw sexual power . |
| 11 | In a few cases , the social worker might have to make provision for young children to be given temporary care away from home , for instance if the patient is a single parent without any relatives who could care for the children . |
| 12 | Third , you could plump for the isolation tank , but have just enough water for the fish to swim in , and raise the temperature to 5 or 6°s ; above the normal show tank or pond . |
| 13 | You asked me to send a reminder so you could arrange for the stone cross to be cleaned before Remembrance Sunday in November . |
| 14 | As this Department is responsible for the cost of accommodation , which I believe will total £ , I would be grateful if you could arrange for the amount due to be invoiced to the above address for the attention of Miss H White . |
| 15 | I think I 'll give you some homework that you could do for the week . |
| 16 | Anyway , you could ask for the prices to be faxed back to you , or even just posted . |
| 17 | If you attached yourself to his particular rising star , you could shoot for the moon . ’ |
| 18 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 19 | Now we could prepare for the Jubilee without a car& in the world . |
| 20 | We could look for the people who put him up to it . |
| 21 | We could look for the gamma rays that the primordial black holes emit during most of their lifetime . |
| 22 | I do not think we could bid for the money part as Japan has the reputation of trying to get its own way by money . |
| 23 | You agreed that we could try for the purposes of this program to find out what we could about your criminal record and also about your health records . |
| 24 | If we could calculate accurately the consequential change in the electron 's momentum then we could allow for the effects of the collision and our knowledge would still be capable of being made exact . |
| 25 | It was a massive vehicle with a 3.3 litre diesel engine , and it was marvellous because we could park for the night where we happened to be . |
| 26 | Erm and I would see that in terms of a service of thanksgiving , some kind of service of thanksgiving where I could pray with them , we could pray for the child in their arms in the face of the congregation and ask God 's blessing on the life of that child and see that as a celebration of thanksgiving and a , a prayer of blessing for , for that child . |
| 27 | Before the announcement , Baker had an unprecedented meeting on Feb. 14 , at a previously closed nuclear weapons development laboratory , Chelyabinsk-70 , with scientists there , who outlined suggestions for civilian work which they could do for the West . |
| 28 | In the spring of 1956 both London and Washington decided that all they could do for the moment was to allow the Aswan offer to " wither on the vine " . |
| 29 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
| 30 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |