Example sentences of "we could [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another Friday 13th was approaching so I was certain we could expect another move , maybe the big one . |
| 2 | Clearly , we could expect some sort of boundary indication , such as a pause , to occur long before the end of this utterance . |
| 3 | From this it follows that we could give some account of what it might mean to ‘ change the context ’ in the sense in which Fillmore ( 1977 : 119 ) envisages this when he says ‘ I … find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . ’ |
| 4 | I did not think we could invade this year . |
| 5 | Thus we produced a ratio of three sterile males for every normal one caught resting in the wild ; but we could detect little mating between sterile males and wild females . |
| 6 | Oh we could move that vase and then put it there . |
| 7 | Twelve months ago when Graeme joined us I had hoped that we could generate enough business to justify an extra man . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps you could let me have your number and then I 'll give you a call when Mr Steen is back in town and we could fix another appointment . ’ |
| 9 | That 's all I want to say on the principle erm of the criteria , as far as the detailed content erm er is concerned I suspect we could talk all day about whether social should replace affordable in one of the criteria , or whether the full stop is in the right place er in another one . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps we could talk some time ? … |
| 11 | Erm , er , the only way we could do that Chair , is erm , by use of , of contingency funds and er , one 's aware very much of debates earlier in the day about the , the many pressures that the County Council and the Department faces , but erm , I would ask members to , to give very careful consideration to er , assisting to finish this project . |
| 12 | We could do some window shopping , too . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We had to put metal grids down , with sand over the top before we could do any filming . |
| 14 | Okay so you could draw that and you 'd draw the same angle and we could measure that angle see what it is . |
| 15 | If only we could draw in nine dimensions we could make each dimension correspond to one of the nine genes . |
| 16 | Look we could make some chocolate ones it only makes twelve . |
| 17 | If we could meet this brother at least . ’ |
| 18 | It would be great if we could achieve that level of non-smoking among school and college students . |
| 19 | We could achieve this compromise in a Solomonic way . |
| 20 | It 's quite possible we could pass each other and not even realize it . |
| 21 | ‘ He said that we could pass each other without knowing . |
| 22 | ( There was no way we could check this figure ; the point is that it was accepted as a social fact . ) |
| 23 | One might be tempted to argue that the photon is absorbed by the microscope and that by measuring the latter 's consequent recoil , due to acquiring the photon 's momentum after its collision with the electron , we could evaluate this momentum as accurately as we wished . |
| 24 | By the way , the last thing Carolyn said to me last night was that her party was open-house and we could go any time . ’ |
| 25 | Look , if you do n't mind a bit of running you could just come as far as the Tube with me and we could continue this conversation on the way . |
| 26 | We believe that if we could liberate this wealth of talent we would transform our economy and create a shared society of which we should all be proud . |
| 27 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 28 | You 'll probably laugh , but , well , we thought we could help each other to be good — in a spiritual way I mean . |
| 29 | And we could produce more slate on erm thirty pound a week less in wages . |
| 30 | We could ask each child to say ( or write ) what they are feeling as they leave the island , but we might first want to focus on the leavetaking in a more active way . |