Example sentences of "we could [verb] [prep] the " 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 | ‘ In the old days we could rely on the same spectators attending match after match , whatever the weather or the results . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If only we could return to the values of the past , many of us dream , how much better life would be ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | From any starting point we could move through the maze in such a way as to recreate the dodo , the tyrannosaur and trilobites . |
| 10 | We could move in the summer . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We could talk about the meaning of life , ’ continued Sarah , encouraged . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | We could talk about the clinics , if you like . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not you , so it 's best that you decide ; but we could talk over the options you have . ’ |
| 17 | When we could talk on the telephone every day and I could n't come to see you . ’ |
| 18 | I wish you were here and we could talk in the dark . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well I was I 've looked , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire , I 've just glanced down the table at certainly at the er my Greater York district colleagues , and er certainly we er are rather surprised that er you have the impression that you have the impression that er erm we could do without the erm the new settlement , quite clearly erm erm certainly Harrogate , Selby , er and Ryedale , and the County Council , believe the the new settlement is absolutely essential , erm and I think that 's erm erm certainly a matter of agreement between er us and those three districts , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 21 | We could do without the stop the buses altogether . |
| 22 | We could do at the end of the lesson . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We tidied up our rooms and cleaned the kitchens , dragging out the mundane tasks so that we could stay in the warm . |
| 25 | I discovered that with our video : we tape things we could watch at the time , just to prove , I suppose that video recorders are wonderful things . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , that 's all we could fit on the airplane . ’ |
| 27 | We could think of the extremes of its swing to be called states A and B. We can see that the pendulum is not stable in either of these states . |
| 28 | We could start with the Coromandel Peninsula , then on to the East Cape and the ‘ King Country ’ in the heart of the North Island , ideal for cycling and with superb colours in autumn . |
| 29 | Soaked with it and languid from the heat , with the scent of salt and sand still heavy in my nose , I asked if we could stop at the high slope of grass off Elderberry Road . |
| 30 | ‘ Listen , we could go to the Baltic — ’ naming a horribly expensive café and one far beyond his means — ‘ it 's only a few stops on the bus — ’ |