Example sentences of "we could afford " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were n't that many rehearsal places around at that time which we could afford . |
| 2 | That was before we could afford a ‘ better house ’ , before Mum got a job , before we moved to Exeter . |
| 3 | There were dances in the Hut by the Strathmore Arms and when we grew up a bit and thought our fathers would n't find out we would nip into the Strathmore Arms for a pint , on the few occasions we could afford . |
| 4 | There is no way we could afford that sort of money , ’ said boss Linda Couch . |
| 5 | Cos that 's when , when , when we get to that nearer the date , we could , we could just , you know , when you 're confirmed that you 've been booked and you 're definitely going , erm we could look at the finances and see how much we could afford to , to give , erm , something to each person to help with , eit either with the accommodation or , or the transport . |
| 6 | It were reasonable , quite re , er as a matter of fact we could afford to go on ho my father could afford to take us on a holiday every year . |
| 7 | None of the charges quoted was outrageous , £5–6 per page is pretty much the norm but beware of minimum charges , and as the job we tested them on was non-urgent we could afford to be a little more flexible . |
| 8 | I suppose if he jibbed at five hundred he 'd hardly part with four thousand , not at a rate of interest we could afford . |
| 9 | The are very variable they obviously thought we could afford a |
| 10 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 11 | We ate heartily every night , we could afford croissants at breakfast , and we stopped scrounging for cigarettes . |
| 12 | When we were flush again and we could afford something , you 'd get it from a catalogue or whatever . |
| 13 | Our agitations were of course not so much for ourselves , for we were all comfortably enough off — that is to say we could afford a bottle of wine every now and then and very few of us rose with the dawn and laboured until nightfall — but sprang from a burning sense of general injustice or a generalized sense of burning injustice , whichever quote 's the best or whichever your readers prefer . |
| 14 | Oh no , well erm , I assume we could afford it , he just does n't like one in the bedroom so we have one downstairs . |
| 15 | I know that he 's dead , that he lived somewhere in West Cornwall , that his pictures are making high prices and that I wish we could afford one . |
| 16 | Those , like me , who championed the News Network asked whether we could afford to lose one and a half million new listeners . |
| 17 | Those , like me , who championed the News Network asked whether we could afford to lose one-and-a-half million new listeners . |
| 18 | Well it does really , I mean if we , it 's a question of whether the budget will stand the staff , is n't it , it 's not whether we , er I mean in terms of of redundancies it 's whether we cou , if we appointed people we could afford to keep them on , whether or not there was work , I mean we could have create work in some senses . |
| 19 | ‘ We intended to sponsor the match ball but we found we could afford the whole match . ’ |
| 20 | Luckily we are in a position where we could afford it . |
| 21 | Somewhat cheekily that committee came back to us and asked us very nicely would we provide about twenty five for the force , which we thought was a cheek but having said that we 've actually looked at it and there may well be a way that we could afford it . |
| 22 | I wonder if we could afford a blue bath ? ’ |
| 23 | My first reaction consisted of being grateful that we could afford a Penfield mood organ . |
| 24 | Well a cooker you definitely , a fridge say we could perhaps borrow that one of mum 's until we could afford one . |
| 25 | Well and this is it I mean , where we could afford it they could n't ! |