Example sentences of "we could [verb] in the " 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 move in the summer . ’ |
| 4 | I wish you were here and we could talk in the dark . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We tidied up our rooms and cleaned the kitchens , dragging out the mundane tasks so that we could stay in the warm . |
| 7 | ‘ We could go in the park , ’ he said . |
| 8 | No but I wish we could go in the morning so |
| 9 | Oh we could read it or we could go in the garden . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The only distinguishing clinical features we could identify in the RP group were male preponderance and an increased frequency of extraintestinal manifestations . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I think probably Chairman , it 's the best deal that we could get in the circumstances . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Living without awe of God is like living as a beggar , when instead we could live in the king 's palace as the heir . |
| 17 | The trouble was , we could believe in the Continent being overrun again , but we could n't face up to it happening here . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |