Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is economically damaging to give the middle classes things free when they could perfectly well pay for them directly . |
| 2 | I could even like call for you , like . |
| 3 | She could then either wait for the ferry , which was sporadic , or go back up to the head of the estuary and up to where the river was narrow enough for a bridge . |
| 4 | It was certainly no more important to me and I could quite happily go for weeks without any . |
| 5 | Uridia , as a developing planet , is much in need of practical schemes but it could no longer pay for them without today 's increase in the subsidy . |
| 6 | Would he eventually be ousted by one of them , a toothless lion left to die of starvation while the rest of the herd loped off after game he could no longer compete for ? |
| 7 | Sadly he deteriorated very quickly until he could no longer care for himself or communicate in any understandable way . |
| 8 | Take Rosa Millard , an intelligent woman of 80 whose daughter could no longer care for her . |
| 9 | Which would in any case , cease , she thought , if she could no longer work for the Carsons . |
| 10 | Towards the end he could no longer fend for himself and good neighbours used to come and help me get him up out of bed and into a chair . |