Example sentences of "we could have [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is , of course , wrong as we could have guessed on the basis of our experience with forces acting upon capacitor plates . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We could have passed in the corridor . |
| 7 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps we could have won in the end but I am sure we can finish the job this week . ’ |