Example sentences of "we could [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was n't particularly happy with the idea , but kindly decided to let me try after an RSPCA inspector had seen the condition of the dog , and had judged how much she weighed , so we could give the correct dosage . |
| 2 | We could smell the salty tang of sea air less than a mile away , and we could hear the mewing of gulls . |
| 3 | And we could smell the strong pungent scent of a trotting fox as we trailed dog-like paw marks . |
| 4 | We worked alone so that we could choose the good weather on my off duty days , but the communal gangs were no fair weather workers and pressed on under any conditions . |
| 5 | So crazed were we becoming that I was sure that even at that distance we could spot the fiendish grin he directed at Sinar Surya floundering on the horizon each time he passed ! |
| 6 | How nice it was when we could leave the back door undone for the baker to put the bread on the table , the butcher to walk in and even put the meat in the pantry safe and the insurance man to pick up his money from the table . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ I stammered , ‘ if we could resolve the White Rose murders … ? ’ |
| 8 | He added : ‘ We could make the fatal mistake in these next 12 weeks of simply changing personalities . |
| 9 | ( For if we could achieve the desired reductive consequences by framing an innocent person , and if these effects are all that is needed to justify punishment , what is wrong with punishing the innocent ? ) |
| 10 | We could shove the other one in the wreck of the old car . ’ |
| 11 | Twelve and a half per cent 's going to be twelve and a half over a hundred , er , oh , well , we 're going to cancel , but first of all we could go the opposite way , and multiply , just to get rid of this fraction . |
| 12 | We could wear the liberal ‘ scientific ’ pair , as did many young trendy academics during the 1960s and early 1970s when the stars of interactionism and phenomenology were in the ascendant . |
| 13 | You could always , you , you always used to say we could tell the German planes coming over er they 'd got a certain sound because they were so heavily ladened . |
| 14 | As far as we could tell the Moslem factions were out of the fray for the time being . |
| 15 | We found a way in which we could help the black community directly and in the most positive way with considerable sums . |
| 16 | Beyond them , against a curiously speckled sea , we could survey the distant coastline of Java on one side and Sumatra on the other . |
| 17 | Maybe we could join the fair folk … prizefighting for thee and I 'd be a tumbler . |
| 18 | ‘ We could share the driving and drive sedately through Germany , ’ she amended with a smirk of a glance to where Fabia was grinning , ‘ and once I 've done my interview we could make a holiday of it — stay longer , have a tour around . |
| 19 | For instance , the verb regret seems to presuppose that its complement is true , and so we could try the following characterization : the sentence John does n't regret cheating can only be used appropriately in contexts where it is known ( or believed ) that John cheated . |
| 20 | If we could arrest the Supreme Council we could demoralise the entire organisation . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We intended to sponsor the match ball but we found we could afford the whole match . ’ |
| 22 | As we approached we could hear the real Chairman of the Ontario Jockey Club welcoming everyone to the adventure and we could see Zak and the other actors waiting for him to finish so that they could get on with the mystery . |
| 23 | In the distance we could hear the outside telephone bell at the farmhouse . |
| 24 | The study carrels were empty because of the cold weather : snow and ice covered the deserted garden though from the abbey church we could hear the faint chanting of Lauds . |
| 25 | We could hear the guttural growling of still more coming from underground burrows . |
| 26 | We could hear the constant drone of the record producer in the heather and the woods , and quite often when the others were chipping or putting . |
| 27 | Once down out of the wind , the weather was bearable again and we could enjoy the intriguing glen pitted with the ruins of ancient shielings either side of the Allt a' Chobhair . |
| 28 | I wish to hell we could get the forensic pathology service sorted out before I go . |
| 29 | But I was still convinced that we could get the extra 200,000 . |
| 30 | In the headlong rush to articulate what an ‘ entitlement curriculum ’ ought to be we could destroy the essential quality of all curricula , the engagement in a dialogue by teacher and learner , a dialogue whose ends are diverse , whose pathways various but whose aim is constant — the enhancement of the quality of understanding . |