Example sentences of "we could make " in BNC.
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1 | I said something like , well , I was trying to make her feel at ease , oh , something like , we could make a habit of this , and just have fun , Lucy . |
2 | He tried to lighten his mood , grinning at her like a schoolboy , ‘ Apart from anything else we could make love at breakfast-time , lunch-time and tea-time . ’ |
3 | The snow was so deep we could make no progress , so we went around into Dividal instead . |
4 | We should be three very gay companions , we could make excursions , the sort one never ventures upon alone . |
5 | He added : ‘ We could make the fatal mistake in these next 12 weeks of simply changing personalities . |
6 | We could make a team and think of a plan . ’ |
7 | Gradually we could make out the shaking fronds of the trees , the thick herbs at the side of the path . |
8 | But we were convinced we could make the series without the need to accept a ‘ marriage-offer ’ — another favoured Channel Four model — which would mean an established production company would absorb us and our ideas and take the commission . |
9 | Maybe I thought we could make up for all those afternoons . |
10 | The only place where we could make cuts , without resetting the entire piece , was in the last paragraph . |
11 | For the first time that weekend the rain had stopped , and although it was still overcast we could make out something of the beauties of the landscape . |
12 | Perhaps we could make up a party . |
13 | We took our own sandwiches for lunch and a teacher would boil a kettle so we could make tea or cocoa for ourselves . |
14 | She also asked us each to decide how many garments we could make in a week , not sewn up ( if we chose to do this we were paid extra ) . |
15 | Perhaps we could make a couple of trips on match days . |
16 | Being committed to pray for someone is perhaps the greatest commitment we could make and as such we as a church need to be faithful in this , that is why it would be good to get prayer support groups together . |
17 | We could make another one up now . |
18 | The proportions are good and we could make a separate flat for Nonni . |
19 | ‘ Perhaps we could make a performance ? ’ one of you suggests . |
20 | ‘ I think we should be given lessons on that and then we could make up our minds about whether we are being used by a boy seeing how far he can go , or whether the boy is really interested in us . |
21 | We got to thinking that if we came to Los Angeles regularly we could make these shows all the time and send them to English-speaking countries all over the world . |
22 | We were a large family of seven and my father worked on the railway and he only had two pounds a week , but we could make three pounds and ten shillings just at the weekend by working the clubs . |
23 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
24 | Although ‘ venom ’ and ‘ poison ’ are often used indiscriminately to describe toxic substances , we could make the distinction here between them . |
25 | ‘ With your talent and my management , ’ Emily went on , ‘ we could make the names of Grenfell and Morgan known throughout the country . |
26 | And I think if we could make it get one of the Uttlesford chaps to the same meeting |
27 | maybe , maybe , people could just be thinking or , you know if they hear of somebody who might be able to come and give a talk like your friend who , who was very good , erm , you know , we could make a note of it and , or ask people , you know , could talk to talk or something that sort . |
28 | We could make the place pay . |
29 | For instance , if one says to them , you at least have the advantage of speaking Russian and this entitles you to a certain authority in the area of Eastern European art , one seldom gets the reply : yes , that is our speciality , a contribution we could make . |
30 | But in the back of our heads we knew we could make a career together . ’ |