Example sentences of "we could [verb] up [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | But , given the money , I know we could come up with a British winner . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |