Example sentences of "we could [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this particular problem it would be excellent if we could just go to the Black community and say ’ Hi brothers and sisters We have a problem with this outmoded ritual ’ And they would respond in this way ’ good , let us all drop it ’ . |
| 2 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 3 | After going out manicuring she started spending Sunday afternoons in bed and we could n't stay in the house nor play on the doorstep for fear of disturbing her . |
| 4 | We could n't claim to be anything else ; we could n't speak for the families of Terry Waite or Brian Keenan . |
| 5 | If there were , for instance , a conceptual link between mental state and behaviour such that we could not conceive of the behaviour being present without the ( or some ) mental state , the argument from analogy would be unnecessary . |
| 6 | Usually the two pilots who are on night duty sleep in the ambulance but the driver and medical orderly who also sleep in it had worked up a terrific ‘ fug ’ — ‘ Imshi ’ Mason and I felt we could not cope with the smell of unwashed feet , etc. , so we dragged the two stretchers out . ’ |
| 7 | However , we could not conclude from the equation that one molecule of hydrogen , H2 , collides with one molecule of bromine , Br2 , to produce two molecules of HBr . |
| 8 | The carcass , unfortunately , was in quite an advanced state of decomposition by the time we got to it , so we could not look at the detailed histology ( cell structure ) of the internal organs or the central nervous system . |
| 9 | Whilst demonstrating all too clearly her feeling that la Sologne belonged to her family , and I had no real place in it , she was able to discuss with Jean-Claude and me what we could reasonably expect from the area today , and lay down , precisely , what it was appropriate to do and not to do among the Solognats . |
| 10 | We could only travel at the rate of the slowest ship , and once out in the Irish Sea were ‘ blacked out ’ . |
| 11 | We could only see through the windows |
| 12 | We were disappointed but we could still watch through the windows as Mum gave her final instructions to Mrs Taylor and Mrs Buckley . |
| 13 | We could always go to the pictures and then go back to ours or something ? |
| 14 | We could always engage in the Rawlsian form of argument and apply it to the new information once it becomes available . |
| 15 | Well we could always sit on the seat when we come back . |
| 16 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 17 | And er it was , it was acceptable by our members in general , that we were achieving the aims and objective of the basis of the whole incentive scheme you know , notwithstanding a lot of other things that was accompanied by , because we could we could then say to the management on most occasions , well we could do with something here that would help health and safety . |
| 18 | Would anybody like to hazard a guess as to what we could possibly mean as the difference between these two words ? |
| 19 | We could actually go to the Association of County Councils . |
| 20 | We could actually sleep on the camp bed between the midnight and 6am observations . |
| 21 | As her reports started to come together , our excitement grew about what we could now achieve for the children of Vietnam . |