Example sentences of "we could [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this particular problem it would be excellent if we could just go to the Black community and say ’ Hi brothers and sisters We have a problem with this outmoded ritual ’ And they would respond in this way ’ good , let us all drop it ’ . |
| 2 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 3 | Suppose we numbered all the character positions in the book and we could easily move to any character position . |
| 4 | We could also extend to all pupils the advantage bilingual pupils have in recognising language as a symbolic system , which helps with understanding mathematics as communication , by utilising the different languages in our society . |
| 5 | Now I can see the sense of that , you know , we could probably go to a New York lawyer on a no no win , no pay basis and take action agai an and argue that case , but you know is this what , what really people who 've paid pensions for thirty or forty years should be dealing with , you know . |
| 6 | ‘ With the old system we could only react to what members of the public told us . |
| 7 | We could never come to an understanding with the Communists … |
| 8 | ‘ Of course we could always go to Lazonby , ’ he suggests . |
| 9 | We could always go to the pictures and then go back to ours or something ? |
| 10 | We try to reduce the distance between ourselves and our boss by using first-person-plural pronouns , talking of what ‘ we ’ ( i.e. the boss and I ) will do in the future — ‘ We could always write to head office , and ask them to let us have more data . |
| 11 | If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt . |
| 12 | But I 'd rather I 'd rather he presented us with five that we could then reduce to two , |
| 13 | And er it was , it was acceptable by our members in general , that we were achieving the aims and objective of the basis of the whole incentive scheme you know , notwithstanding a lot of other things that was accompanied by , because we could we could then say to the management on most occasions , well we could do with something here that would help health and safety . |
| 14 | We could actually go to the Association of County Councils . |
| 15 | We 've been very careful not to be seen to be interfering or for anybody to think that we were going to tell groups how they would run their groups , because the groups are fairly autonomous and they pre-existed parish councils er , but a you know this is almost a direct invitation and we could actually respond to this in terms of an invitation and ask other groups if they would be interested in our respon in our going to , to visit them , rather than a surgery where maybe we 'd sit here and nobody would turn up . |
| 16 | Many came to the door attempting to sell brushes , polish and so on , often carrying a card from the firm employing them explaining that they were disabled servicemen , I tremble to think that we could ever return to conditions like these . |
| 17 | We are due to review the morning service pattern at the church meeting on December 9th , although it is difficult to imagine how we could ever revert to a single service since already we have about 500 adults and children attending the two services ! |
| 18 | In what has been a good year for poets at the conferences , with Neil Kinnock quoting both Frost and Shelley , and Kenneth Baker identifying with Henry V or Kenneth Branagh , Mr Patten chose Larkin 's observation that , with honour gone , all we could now leave to our children was money . |