Example sentences of "i can [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not afford to send donations to every appeal that comes through my letterbox , but I can walk for miles in glorious locations and sit for hours enjoying the birds in my garden . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Dalglish knows the job I can do for Blackburn — I presume it will be in midfield . ’ |
| 3 | I can hassle for business contacts in these areas at conferences as soon as I get to a conference . |
| 4 | I 'm a social smoker but I can go for months at a time without even thinking about it . |
| 5 | th the problems that that is causing erm I 'm obviously I , I , you know very well I can talk for hours on , on many subjects and this is one of those that I can do so . |
| 6 | ‘ What I can provide for Kirsty is security and love . |
| 7 | I can look for reasons for what I did and call those reasons excuses ; what he did to Alice , how he bullied Mother , how I hated him . |
| 8 | As an individual , I can look for ways of dealing with conflict in my own life through negotiation and avoiding imposing my will on others . |
| 9 | I did The Player for a third of what I can get for films I do n't want to do . |
| 10 | As someone said before in his starts for Leeds his goals per match are pretty impressive , and he plays his heart out , not something I can say for Dean . |
| 11 | Er , I can say for instance that I 'm changing because I 'm er getting older , I 'm getting tireder erm all sorts of things can be said about me . |
| 12 | ‘ I can see for miles . ’ |
| 13 | it 's cold up here but I can see for miles |