Example sentences of "we could [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We could move in the summer . ’ |
| 5 | I wish you were here and we could talk in the dark . |
| 6 | I agree with the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington ( Mr. Forman ) that by far the most useful thing that we could do in the short run would be to fund a payments union among the commonwealth of independent states so that they could at least have a currency in which to trade with one another . |
| 7 | We could stay in a nice hotel . ’ |
| 8 | We tidied up our rooms and cleaned the kitchens , dragging out the mundane tasks so that we could stay in the warm . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ We could go in the park , ’ he said . |
| 11 | No but I wish we could go in the morning so |
| 12 | Oh we could read it or we could go in the garden . |
| 13 | I wanted to go to Chimney 's it would be nice if it rained at Chimney 's cos there , we could go in the pond . |
| 14 | Our playmates swam quietly to the edge of the pool , while Lorne and I began to climb out until signalled that we could remain in the water if we wished . |
| 15 | The only distinguishing clinical features we could identify in the RP group were male preponderance and an increased frequency of extraintestinal manifestations . |
| 16 | Well there 's a physical limit to how much we could produce in a an eight hour shift and all the slate makers were adamant that the figures he reckoned they could produce and what they reckoned they could produce you know they were totally different . |
| 17 | It happened that he decided to go back and found himself commanding a squadron on operations at about the same time that Salmon and Gluxstein as we called the two German battle wagons , decided to leave Brest , head up through the Channel and escape the wrath of the Navy and whatever airborne effort we could produce in the teeth of extraordinarily adverse weather conditions at the time . |
| 18 | We could slip in an hour in the evening . |
| 19 | It may well be that when the archaeologists and historians have studied a sufficient number of towns intensively in this country , as they have done abroad , we shall add something appreciable to our knowledge of English history , knowledge which we could get in no other way . |
| 20 | I think probably Chairman , it 's the best deal that we could get in the circumstances . |
| 21 | ‘ When the Department of Health at the turn of the year invited bids for the money available nationally we could put in a very detailed bid in the tight time scale . ’ |
| 22 | This means we could have in the ( unrealistic ) case of two subjects per group , TV group : young and little-educated , old and well-educated non-TV group : young and well-educated , old and little-educated . |
| 23 | We could take in a huge dose of it and it would n't harm us one tiny little bit . |
| 24 | Living without awe of God is like living as a beggar , when instead we could live in the king 's palace as the heir . |
| 25 | The trouble was , we could believe in the Continent being overrun again , but we could n't face up to it happening here . |
| 26 | ‘ Just pray we do n't get a North Atlantic fog , because in those latitudes we could roll in the swells for days , with the moisture beading the shrouds and the air as cold as charity , and always being terrified that a super-tanker will barrel out of the muck at full speed to thump you under her bows without even knowing you were ever there . ’ |