Example sentences of "you can [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can stay for lunch . ’ |
| 2 | There is also a golf course five miles away , and if you have your own tackle you can fish for trout . |
| 3 | Another , another thing you can do for Easter , another thing is , er you can go back to the old tradition of the pay sex |
| 4 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 5 | Wherever you see the Switch sign you can pay for goods and services simply by handing over your AutoCheque Card . |
| 6 | If you do intend to follow your own programme see whether you can find a ‘ mentor ’ or other suitable person to whom you can go for encouragement and guidance when you need to , rather than attempting to battle it out on your own . |
| 7 | ‘ You can go for days without meeting a millionaire . |
| 8 | It 's good knowing that there 's somewhere you can go for advice . |
| 9 | If you can talk for hours in the boot room |
| 10 | And there 's service stations on the motorway you see where you can stop for breakfast . |
| 11 | If you 're away fro home , try to find out what you can expect for breakfast . |
| 12 | National parks and wildlife sanctuaries provide as near perfect conditions as you can expect for painting wildlife and we have chosen the Seewinkel area and Lake Neusiedl in Austria as our base . |
| 13 | Are there any limits to how many times you can stand for councillor ? |
| 14 | Because if there are you can arrange for things li if you if you break or sprain , you start getting strain or whatever you can ask for an amanuensis Oh , you 're interested now , oh what 's an aman where 's the dictionary ? |
| 15 | If you have to stay away overnight you can arrange for accommodation to be found for you and paid for by ES . |
| 16 | According to this view you can reach for security through self-help — individual action , or action in small groups of like-minded people — but not through reliance on big bureaucracies . |
| 17 | You can walk for hours and never see daylight , under the Paris Opera House . |
| 18 | Easily Accessible : You can walk for miles and miles on the nearby Halkyn mountains and a little further afield , the Denbigh moors and Snowdonia provide many challenging walks . |
| 19 | Or you can head for Hong Kong , and circle the island 's skyscrapers . |
| 20 | as long as you 've got two hands and you can work for money you 'll never bloody win any . |
| 21 | Get it in the penalty area ( coloured blue or red ) and you can shoot for goal — hit bullseye to score ! |
| 22 | This chapter explains how the various pension systems work for women , how you can claim for state benefits you may be entitled to and the major changes relating to pensions and benefits which will take effect from April 1988 . |
| 23 | I mean there 's not many discos round here what you can see for kids . |
| 24 | And it even happens where the clays which overlie the chalk , the tertiary clays which you can see for example in the top of the cliffs at Newhaven , and if you look back at the cliff from the western breakwater for example you can see clay sitting on top of chalk . |
| 25 | By day you can see for miles , and at night the moon shines brightly out of cloudless skies . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , a penthouse is like any other home , only it 's right up on top of a building and you can see for miles and miles just by looking out of your sitting room window . ’ |
| 27 | On a cloudless day you can see for miles . |
| 28 | Everywhere you stand , you can see for miles in straight food lines . |
| 29 | I 'm sure there are some amazing restaurants up here , some incredible mirador where you can see for miles and dine by moonlight . ’ |
| 30 | Only you can look for associations , explanations and seek amplification of what it was your unconscious mind was trying to communicate to you while you slept — and dreamed . |