Example sentences of "we could [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could just put manager could n't we ? |
| 2 | ‘ It was so bad , we could n't raise control , ’ said a paramedic , John Donaldson , 31 . |
| 3 | And they 'd come up and wait them but I 'd make them a cup of coffee or a cup of cocoa or something like that , there were n't coffee then cos we could n't afford coffee we used to have cocoa or make them a mug of tea . |
| 4 | " We could n't find nothin , " said Butterworth , speaking for the first time , bolder now that the truth was out . |
| 5 | What Barry says is simply this that suppose we accept the point that authority structures are now necessary , that we could n't have anarchy we have to have |
| 6 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 7 | We could n't promise Riccardo a place here next year . |
| 8 | It was further away from the centre of London and our home , and we could easily take Magwitch abroad by boat from there . |
| 9 | Some of them brought to it a breadth of experience of teaching to which we could not lay claim . |
| 10 | In this study we could not show correlation between pathological scores or their distribution and any clinical parameter . |
| 11 | At times , pressure on space meant we could not do justice to the work she did for us , but nevertheless she continued to keep up the high standards she set herself . |
| 12 | Indeed , on the slower systems , John Arnell , business manager with the company 's Personal Systems division admits ‘ we could not meet demand of any substance in the next month ’ . |
| 13 | Indeed , on the slower systems , Arnell , business manager with the company 's Personal Systems division admits ‘ we could not meet demand of any substance in the next month ’ . |
| 14 | Mother and I decided that in the interests of hygiene we could not take Father 's body into Chiguana , but must bury him where he lay . |
| 15 | If six men were left , we could not take control of the ship ; and because only six were left , the captain 's men did not need my help . |
| 16 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 17 | My dad always used to say that we could not afford lunch , although , I have to say , this did not stop him eating it . |
| 18 | You could feel the crowd willing it in but it did n't make it and I was beginning to feel it was slipping away , and especially when we could only make par at the 17th . |
| 19 | But we could only take care of little children ! |
| 20 | Then we could still have lunch . ’ |
| 21 | At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer . |
| 22 | We could sell his story but we could never make money from other people 's suffering … ’ |
| 23 | It was a long time before we recovered from the loss , and I vowed never to have another dog because we could never replace Sorrel . |
| 24 | But er we , we could always ask granddad if we wanted to know anything . |
| 25 | Thus by comparing the signal ratio of the Ea endogenous gene to transgene signal , we could directly relate signal to copy number . |
| 26 | ‘ It would be great if we could come up with a way of treating some disorders , we could actually make use of cannabis in some way therapeutically , that would be tremendous . ’ |
| 27 | We 've tried to frame our motion as carefully as we could t so we could actually get support from everybody . |
| 28 | Right , now , we could all become self sufficient , alright . |
| 29 | Dana was much more experienced than I : he taught me a form of carezza by which we could indefinitely prolong erection and contain ejaculation . |
| 30 | After climbing the hill at Vezelay we could almost feel part of the preaching of St Bernard and the 2nd Crusade . |