Example sentences of "we could [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Government policies are so short-term that by the time the recession is over , the country 's industrial base will have been destroyed , and we could end up with a Third World economy .
2 If we did n't get the damage repaired , we could end up with a blind ship and fly ourselves into a black hole .
3 Now there 's us working working , taking everything in , working slowly taking everything in piece by piece we could end up with a job at the end of it cos we know what we 're doing .
4 The gut reaction this morning is we could end up with a bypass scheme at the end of it and no Caernarvon link .
5 I still feel it is a dangerous proposition to be in and we could end up in a situation where development comes to a full stop .
6 and whereas before we could walk round in a on a circular route , Yeah that 's Walk .
7 We could go away for a weekend together , we could ; we could wake up next morning and eat croissants and drink coffee from blue china bowls .
8 We could go away for a bit — a break ; a couple of weeks perhaps .
9 Then we could go on to a dance in our local Labour Hall ?
10 We could go on to a nightclub afterwards . ’
11 Oh well we 're fairly heavily committed at the moment but erm well I suppose we could go up to a budget of about forty pounds a month .
12 I mean , we could go back in a few days and I could distract her while you … ’
13 Perhaps we could go there for a drink later ?
14 ‘ I thought we could go out for a meal , ’ he said folding the paper and slipping it into his jacket pocket .
15 Maybe we could go out for a drink afterwards ?
16 Captain Richie Richardson said : ‘ We could go home without a cent . ’
17 Once the erm drop tanks have been developed and have entered production in most of the lead time one associates with providing a capability has er has actually been avoided so we could re-order probably within a year .
18 But , given the money , I know we could come up with a British winner . ’
19 Given the inherent uncertainty of moral interpretation in social life , it would be foolish to believe that we could come up with a definition of aggression that would allow us to unambiguously classify , much less measure , instances of aggressive conduct in unfamiliar societies .
20 Of course , like the sentences about the knight , the dragon , and the pineapple , they might form part of a discourse , and if we stretch our imaginations we could come up with a situation in which they do ; but this will not be by virtue of the words so and she , but because of some other information about the context .
21 ‘ It would be great if we could come up with a way of treating some disorders , we could actually make use of cannabis in some way therapeutically , that would be tremendous . ’
22 erm We feel we can do well , I 'd be ecstatic if we could come away with a world championship point , I think we possibly can if we 're a bit lucky .
23 He was a very nice man and said we could come in for a chat .
24 ‘ If we could get a decent job , have somewhere settled to live , then we could get on with a proper life .
25 Erm the two litre size is we i the vast majority of the market there is going to be on the doorstep and we feel that we could get away with a premium price because of that .
26 The most people that we could get together in a weeks notice , we have to put the actual amalgamation of the team
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