Example sentences of "we could [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they must have been closely linked , it would help if we could distinguish between the circulation of such goods and their deposition in graves , for it is the latter which is actually being studied . |
| 2 | We could improve on a little bit was er , the time spent on incoming calls and queries which is hard to get away from . |
| 3 | ‘ In the old days we could rely on the same spectators attending match after match , whatever the weather or the results . |
| 4 | She had set a very high standard for our display work and had established a tradition which we would do all we could to uphold in the future . |
| 5 | If only we could return to the values of the past , many of us dream , how much better life would be ! |
| 6 | But perhaps the most indicative of the Trust 's success so far are the 16 species of dragonfly and damselfly which use the farm — only one species less than the 17 we could expect on the site . |
| 7 | In order to evaluate the level of service that we could expect from a bureau we concocted a dummy page for a newsletter and sent it on disk to six carefully selected bureau . |
| 8 | I think everyone felt it was stodgy ; it was not a dynamic springboard from which we could leap into a new era of effective education . |
| 9 | ‘ We could build on a garden room . ’ |
| 10 | Europe ? well we could beat about the bush but there 's not a single rep on the road that ever gets out the office so got ta win it cos I actually saw I actually we I actually saw her go out and see a customer so she must she must be er |
| 11 | The message was how much I missed her , time dawdling on leaden feet until we could slide between the sheets together ; picture on front of a Piero angel , undoubtedly her face . |
| 12 | It does appear as if there is an incomplete text of the play surviving : we could sketch in the rest from the analogue in Dame Sirith and the continental analogues reached through that text , but what we have here is sufficiently individual to counsel caution in assuming we know what is missing . |
| 13 | Simon Murison-Bowie wrote to you on 22 December last year asking you to let us know the operating system and machine you would run the tape on , and the tape density you would need , so that we could arrange for a copy to be prepared for you . |
| 14 | We could end as a line of pantun . |
| 15 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 16 | If we consider the exercise-bicycle market shown in figure 2.10 , for example , we could move to a higher level of abstraction to new fitness machines and to lower levels of abstraction which can reveal a whole range of possibilities . |
| 17 | From any starting point we could move through the maze in such a way as to recreate the dodo , the tyrannosaur and trilobites . |
| 18 | We could move in the summer . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I always knew we could score from a set piece , but what I did not expect was to concede two from set-pieces , ’ reflected manager Nigel Best . |
| 20 | We could talk about a proportion of that for you — each time I take him out of some piece of action , you stand to gain . |
| 21 | ‘ We could talk about the meaning of life , ’ continued Sarah , encouraged . |
| 22 | Now surely if you 're gon na intern the leaders and m might they include Gerry Addams and we we could talk about the other side , we could talk about the Loyalist er paramilitaries equally , surely there 's just another wave gon na come along because it 's a never ending assembly line of terrorists , so what 's the point ? |
| 23 | Now surely if you 're gon na intern the leaders and m might they include Gerry Addams and we we could talk about the other side , we could talk about the Loyalist er paramilitaries equally , surely there 's just another wave gon na come along because it 's a never ending assembly line of terrorists , so what 's the point ? |
| 24 | We could talk about the clinics , if you like . ’ |
| 25 | Er we could talk about the customs , the English customs that have helped to er guide us as a rather new nation in our growth . |
| 26 | ‘ I am not you , so it 's best that you decide ; but we could talk over the options you have . ’ |
| 27 | When we could talk on the telephone every day and I could n't come to see you . ’ |
| 28 | I wish you were here and we could talk in the dark . |
| 29 | If we had superhuman reactions then perhaps we could manage with a rigid pole , for we would then be fast enough to ease off when the fish made a sudden plunge . |
| 30 | Originally , the Government and British Rail management said that there was no need for a dedicated rail route from the channel ports , and that we could manage with the existing railway infrastructure . |