Example sentences of "[prep] we could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum has rheumatoid arthritis and , as neither of us could manage the stairs , we shared the same room downstairs . |
| 2 | We considered various possibilities , but as neither of us could drive far and neither of us could face airport hassle , we decided to go for a week to Wales . |
| 3 | I was surprised that Burns did not explain that none of us could wash our faces or hands because the water had been frozen . |
| 4 | Half of us could continue to drown ourselves in usquebaugh and self-pity ( ‘ Here 's tae us , / Wha 's like us ? / Damn few/ All deid ’ ) , the other half could relax , relieved that the English would be continuing to do our thinking for us . |
| 5 | Before either of us could react to this confession , unexpected even to me , I ploughed on . |
| 6 | There are so many anomalies that of the 650 Members who make up this House of Commons , including Mr. Speaker himself , each one of us could present the Government with a list of the anomalies in the Bill the length of our arm . |
| 7 | Looks like all of us could do with a bit of both . ’ |
| 8 | And the god , speaking in his high falsetto voice through the medium of the dhāmi , said without a moment 's hesitation that Kalchu 's bull 's time had come , and there was nothing any of us could do to save it now . |
| 9 | And , before any of us could do anything , she flitted like a ghost back into the trees . |
| 10 | Mm Yeah , I mean , a lot of us could do with a month off . |
| 11 | ‘ We actually should have gone to Edinburgh in November to receive the award but as we are all volunteers none of us could make it , ’ said Jean Reid , secretary of Islay and Jura Community Enterprise . |
| 12 | After a few months of doing this several times each day and night , most of us could plot at the same speed as the information came in on the teleprinter . |
| 13 | If we 'd been put back with an American maybe it meant that at least one of us could expect to be released . |
| 14 | ‘ But he was the only tennis player that any of us could relate to . |
| 15 | ‘ Neither of us could sleep , ’ said her companion , falling heavily on to a seat . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose that 's when we should have called a halt , but now I do n't know how either of us could bear it . ’ |
| 17 | The three of us could go to seven o'clock Mass on Friday morning then it would be like being at Nuptial Mass for her . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Italian fashions , ’ said Felicity , ‘ the ready-to-wear collections — one of us could go over to Milan … ’ |
| 19 | I think few of us could avoid becoming attached to such a fish ! |
| 20 | A decade or three back , when most of us could visit most countries without a visa , there was little expectation that this would prove a high water mark and that restrictions would steadily increase , but we may not be able to assume that the freedom to dial direct to distant countries will continue to increase : Egypt has cut direct-dial telephone links with Pakistan , Afghanistan , Iraq , Sudan and Iran to make it harder for Moslem militant leaders in exile to communicate with groups at home and organise terrorist attacks , the Al-Akhbar newspaper reports ; it is still possible to call via an operator . |
| 21 | We have to admit that each one of us could fail in what we were supposed to be doing and in fact then we could work together , that we could forgive each other and that we could support each other in our work . |
| 22 | There 's no way any of us could walk out of this station in uniform . |
| 23 | Perhaps some of us could meet at the West Ham match . |
| 24 | We 're talking about weapons neither of us could use without destroying ourselves and probably our whole planet . |
| 25 | That they you know , any of us could use |
| 26 | Well in that case I expect , you know , some of us could become a caretaker if they 're having to pay us |
| 27 | I doubt that either of us could survive such a lengthy association . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Some of us could try the woods on either side of the track leading down to the road — away from the belvedere . ’ |
| 29 | Then after a long while , during which neither of us could escape from her hatred and savagery , she 'd said tiredly , ‘ OK , Annie , we ca n't do it . |
| 30 | The trouble was that none of us could understand it . |