Example sentences of "we could [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they must have been closely linked , it would help if we could distinguish between the circulation of such goods and their deposition in graves , for it is the latter which is actually being studied . |
| 2 | If only we could return to the values of the past , many of us dream , how much better life would be ! |
| 3 | But perhaps the most indicative of the Trust 's success so far are the 16 species of dragonfly and damselfly which use the farm — only one species less than the 17 we could expect on the site . |
| 4 | In order to evaluate the level of service that we could expect from a bureau we concocted a dummy page for a newsletter and sent it on disk to six carefully selected bureau . |
| 5 | ‘ We could build on a garden room . ’ |
| 6 | Europe ? well we could beat about the bush but there 's not a single rep on the road that ever gets out the office so got ta win it cos I actually saw I actually we I actually saw her go out and see a customer so she must she must be er |
| 7 | The message was how much I missed her , time dawdling on leaden feet until we could slide between the sheets together ; picture on front of a Piero angel , undoubtedly her face . |
| 8 | It does appear as if there is an incomplete text of the play surviving : we could sketch in the rest from the analogue in Dame Sirith and the continental analogues reached through that text , but what we have here is sufficiently individual to counsel caution in assuming we know what is missing . |
| 9 | Simon Murison-Bowie wrote to you on 22 December last year asking you to let us know the operating system and machine you would run the tape on , and the tape density you would need , so that we could arrange for a copy to be prepared for you . |
| 10 | We could end as a line of pantun . |
| 11 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 12 | From any starting point we could move through the maze in such a way as to recreate the dodo , the tyrannosaur and trilobites . |
| 13 | We could move in the summer . ’ |
| 14 | We could talk about a proportion of that for you — each time I take him out of some piece of action , you stand to gain . |
| 15 | We could talk about the clinics , if you like . ’ |
| 16 | Er we could talk about the customs , the English customs that have helped to er guide us as a rather new nation in our growth . |
| 17 | ‘ We could talk about the meaning of life , ’ continued Sarah , encouraged . |
| 18 | ‘ I am not you , so it 's best that you decide ; but we could talk over the options you have . ’ |
| 19 | When we could talk on the telephone every day and I could n't come to see you . ’ |
| 20 | I wish you were here and we could talk in the dark . |
| 21 | WE COULD DO WITH A REST FROM LIVERPOOL |
| 22 | We could do with a rest from Liverpool . |
| 23 | We could do with a call anybody there anyone 's near a phone just pick it up and ring me all right just ring now I 'll give erm we 'll give a million pounds to the first caller fingers crossed . |
| 24 | Have you come across anything think ooh we could do with a look at that ? |
| 25 | We could do with a servant like that . |
| 26 | ‘ We could do with a night-club and a massage parlour an , all , , said the Viking , full of enthusiasm . |
| 27 | Thing is we could do with a lie in in the morning . |
| 28 | We could do with a swim at the hotel pool and maybe a sleep , but there was no time as our schedule was tight . |
| 29 | Though shooting 's too good for them , if you ask me , we 're too soft in this country , we could do with a bit of Hitler here I think sometimes instead of the namby-pamby way we go on … . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We could do with a bit more interest from the Greens . |