Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could sit for hours on buses without worrying about how much time I was wasting . |
| 2 | So is there anyone out there that has a similar machine that is now ‘ surplus to requirements that I could cannibalise for parts ? |
| 3 | Liese explained how I could look for answers ; but first , silently , I had to formulate my question . |
| 4 | I could see for miles . |
| 5 | The evening ‘ tide ’ had gone out and I could see for miles . |
| 6 | She would sit and answer back , stripping away his pomposity as she would the layers of an onion , before going into a sulk which could last for days . |
| 7 | A service between midnight and 0700 should be the responsibility of family health services authorities , which could arrange for visits and perhaps a night time surgery . |
| 8 | She could sit for hours in the sun these days , content to watch Pilade play , doing nothing whatsoever . |
| 9 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 10 | From the slight incline where she sat she could see for miles the neatly sown fields , the healthy crops and the spotless cattle . |
| 11 | She was to discover that she could see for miles from the attic windows — almost the whole of Bristol . |
| 12 | From its windows she could see for miles , across fields and trees to the aerodrome beyond . |
| 13 | She could see for miles . |
| 14 | As he got older , his impatience , with Rupe and its littleness , its brutality , its poverty , could not be appeased ; you could see for miles around from its position , and you could see nothing . |
| 15 | What we want to do now , can we stand on these ideas and put down on paper some more ideas of what circumstances and situations you could use for children 's role play . |
| 16 | As we discussed at the meeting on May 17 1989 , it would be extremely helpful if you could look for places where captions carrying additional information could appear at the foot of the screen and write the caption . |
| 17 | In a place like this we could scream for hours and no one would hear us . ’ |
| 18 | There , I felt , we could chat for hours without the fear of stepping back absentmindedly and continuing the conversation from a hospital bed in Fort William . |
| 19 | Yet Tate , herself a Jamaican , found that her second-generation informants used Jamaican Creole as their in-group language , and sounded so authentic that they could pass for Jamaicans in Jamaica , in her judgement ( personal communication ) . |
| 20 | Miller must surely have taken the family on local botanising expeditions to Chelsea Heath , the large stretch of common land to the north of the Fulham Road , where they could search for plants important to the Physic Garden . |
| 21 | Variable travel times were calculated , including the time it could take for part-timers to get to their station . |
| 22 | Normally he could go for weeks without being so indulgent ; but the MacQuillan case had brought Rain Morgan back into his life and with her some poignant memories . |
| 23 | As Creggan turned north away from the Park all he could see for miles ahead was the stretching city . |
| 24 | Harry looked into his glass as if he could see for miles and Charles nudged him back on to the subject . |
| 25 | If he were careful , he could survive for years and , for the first time in his life , do exactly what he wanted . |
| 26 | It was the kind of weather Jack Carbery loved , when he could lie for hours , securely wrapped , and sleep — to wake again with the comfortable feeling that a warm meal was near and , after it , a pipe or cigarette and casual conversation with his friends . |