Example sentences of "could have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the apparent absence of identifiable buildings , market-places can only be inferred from the presence of large open areas near the centres of towns , which could have served for periodic markets and fairs . |
| 2 | As flotation advisers suggested that as many as two million people could have applied for shares after a last-minute surge of applications , he added that the issue would be a big step towards the Government 's goal of increasing the level of share-ownership . |
| 3 | If they had wanted to fly supersonic jets for a living , they could have applied for the RAF 's pilot training scheme — you have a one in six chance of passing that . |
| 4 | Even if someone wanted to have their dog put down they could have applied for financial help . ’ |
| 5 | He could have prepared for his appeal in the New Year by moping in his Kent mansion , but instead the man once hailed as the ‘ Clones Cyclone ’ wants to recapture the thrill of the ring in Britain 's most gruelling motor-sport event . |
| 6 | He did n't want Gina using those arguments next time he told her how much better he could have done for himself . |
| 7 | In any case , as a result of the growing emphasis on patrilineal descent in all aristocratic families , even the noblest of wives could do less for an eleventh-century lord than she could have done for his grandfather . |
| 8 | ‘ Hell 's teeth , Fabia , the least you could have done for me was to … ’ |
| 9 | Oh I tell you what he could have done for us have a look at that master that matchline thing . |
| 10 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 11 | It is hard to see how such a regime could have survived for so long , after bringing such unexampled disaster on its people . |
| 12 | ‘ And they could have arranged for a taxi . ’ |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher replied that the government could have waited for inflation to come down . |
| 14 | In considering the possible effects of soot on global climate , the models suggest that since the soot did not reach the stratosphere ( around 14–15 km in this region ) , where it could have remained for several years , the fires were unlikely to have caused significant global climate effects . |
| 15 | The station commander , a well-known Battle of Britain type , suggested that he had wasted more animo on the Luftwaffe that he could have kept for such an occasion as ours . |
| 16 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
| 17 | The yellow card for a foul on Jochim and but Laws will be relieved he certainly could have gone for that . |
| 18 | Perhaps you 'd have let me know we could have gone for a beer . |
| 19 | Her birth , as far as she could see , had been accidental ; no careful well-intended deity could have selected for her her own home . |
| 20 | We could have stayed for longer . |
| 21 | He could have dived for pearls and she could have painted . |
| 22 | She could have lived for years . |
| 23 | It would also have lengthened the plane , but the forces of the hauling system would have been correspondingly less , and an increase of speed could have compensated for the greater distance travelled . |
| 24 | Then there arrived a rainbow of stronger colours and she could have wept for its strident spectrum that came to disturb the pastel gavotte of suns , but it had a strength she could not resist and a hundred thousand pullulating meanings that tugged at her . |
| 25 | She could have wept for the agony of raw longing that burned through her . |
| 26 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 27 | Yet Thomas , 17 , who made a scoring debut as a substitute last week , could have to settle for a place on the bench again as Hearts look to John Robert- son and Ian Ferguson to shoulder the responsibility in attack . |
| 28 | One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for . |
| 29 | That is as appropriate an outcome as any theorist could have hoped for . |
| 30 | Apart from the expense of taking Alison to the cinema , Nigel 's evening out was all he could have hoped for . |