Example sentences of "we could [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it was Annie , and we 'd go home together and see Marie and they 'd both be proud of me and we could sit in front of the Christmas tree together and guess what the wrapped up presents were , and eat mince pies and all that . |
| 2 | If we could move to Paper E. Item six , Joint Staffing Watch . |
| 3 | A corollary of the theory is that if only we were all experts at telepathy we could manage without language at all . |
| 4 | Now we had originally had this extra facility available er so that we could trade off life against the extra thrust in an emergency but there was clearly the possibility erm that that might be used er when it really was n't necessary and we would end up with extra costs , extra life cycle costs , shorter engine life and it was felt on balance that with a reduced threat overall that it was sensible to take out that facility and to accept a longer engine life , but not , there 's no reduction in the total normal thrust but its merely its override combat facility . |
| 5 | But what we could do of course , is is we put in a time between containers , we could always use them to re-palletize it . |
| 6 | ‘ Sounds as if we could do with Dad aboard right now , ’ Hawkins said . |
| 7 | Yeah we could do with decorating , but it 's not really worth it |
| 8 | We could do with building up the . |
| 9 | Bear in mind , that we could do with class in some areas . |
| 10 | We could replant with beech interspersed with conifers to act as nurses to the beech trees until they had got established . |
| 11 | I saw Ace becoming the toast of the kings and queens of Europe , having an audience with the Pope , shaking hands with Gorbachev ; but he , for once , was more modest : ‘ I 'd like to hook up with Jacques Cousteau — we could stay in tune with the global weather patterns . ’ |
| 12 | Erm , I took her at her word , I still looked for work , I did n't stop looking for work but I took it that she was happy enough me being on the dole if it meant that we could stay around Bay or Anglesey . |
| 13 | Then we could make for home , and you could meet Mother . ’ |
| 14 | What about twinning , do you think that that 's of such a high priority that when council houses need repairs that those repairs should be put down on the ladder and said ‘ I 'm sorry , we ca n't deal with that because part of the money that we could allocate to council house repairs is being used for twinning and things like that ’ ? |
| 15 | ‘ But if Fabia comes with me we could travel by car , take the ferry across to Belgium and belt through Germany and … ’ |
| 16 | He believed that , by its means , we could arrive at certainty on such matters . |
| 17 | If there was just one of them , we could go to court now , we 'd get a conviction . |
| 18 | Or we could go to cabin 10 . ’ |
| 19 | We could go to Maxim 's . |
| 20 | ‘ We decided to make a commitment and moved down to Malton in North Yorkshire so we could go to Bible College . |
| 21 | Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ? |
| 22 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 23 | So we waited five long years before we could go in daylight , find the oil , and deny the Luftwaffe and the tank crews of the substance that they so desperately needed . |
| 24 | When Bill and Kevin and I looked at how we could cope with appraisal in our division , the numbers did n't work out as badly at least as I thought they were going to originally . |
| 25 | Things were a bit easier at Binbrook in that direction as we could sleep between midnight and 6am , but I must admit that most nights I had considerably less sleep than that . |
| 26 | For example , in the study of forward paddling we could look at slalom and polo as both classes of boat are short and directionally unstable , like our own . |
| 27 | In other words , we could look at youth culture as a way of understanding social changes taking place in society . |
| 28 | Unfortunately none of the five provide us with the expected objective measure of pain which we could apply with confidence to adults or to babies or to animals . |
| 29 | Even if we could escape from Ambon with our cargo and wallets intact , none of us much cared to think about what receptions might lie ahead , as we approached the isolation of New Guinea . |
| 30 | We could dwell at length on problems of access , ignorance and prejudice and the inequities of the benefit system , but I wold like to focus on two areas — legislation and provision . |