Example sentences of "we could [vb infin] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 All went fine , and we were very chuffed and thrilled , until the producer of the show started to say , ‘ Well , of course , you acted with belted raincoats and the berets and it 's all very sweet , but maybe we could start to take off the belted raincoat , and leave perhaps just the fishnet tights … . ’
2 And one of the reasons I wanted to run for president is to open the floodgates for debating ideas so that we could try to change in the appropriate way . ’
3 We could try going across the fields , ’ said Dorcas .
4 I suppose I suppose we could get rid of the erm all these pay slips now could n't we ?
5 This is , of course , wrong as we could have guessed on the basis of our experience with forces acting upon capacitor plates .
6 When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here .
7 Well , I think we had much higher hopes before the Gulf crisis , I think what many people are saying now is that the peace dividend , the money that we could have saved by the end of the Cold War , will in fact , that peace dividend will be diluted by the Gulf .
8 We could have done with the masks upstairs at the ‘ Music Journalism ’ gathering , where a group of rock writers were taking themselves — and their , ahem , Art — extremely seriously .
9 It would have been better if we could have come at the weekend & seen something of the family , but Richard had long-standing plans involving friends of his who could only come ( from Macclesfield ) on Saturday .
10 We could have passed in the corridor .
11 ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her .
12 If I had known someone who looked similar to me , we could have walked down the street together , wearing similar clothes or something ; we 'd be holding each other 's hands in a sense , it would have been easier .
13 ‘ Perhaps we could have won in the end but I am sure we can finish the job this week . ’
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