Example sentences of "we could [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every Christmas we could expect at least one toy apiece . |
| 2 | The ability to store more food than we could eat at once also meant being able to buy and sell it in real quantity and the merchant cities arose . |
| 3 | If we had trained for jobs such as guard , signalman or even fireman and driver then we could do at least some of the operating jobs ( guard and signalman training is not difficult ) . |
| 4 | There was nothing more we could do at this stage , so we enjoyed a leisurely lunch , and Sunday was cancelled ( which was fortunate , as it rained ) . |
| 5 | We could do at the end of the lesson . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He believed that , by its means , we could arrive at certainty on such matters . |
| 9 | We could look at ratios between proportions rather than differences . |
| 10 | For example , in the study of forward paddling we could look at slalom and polo as both classes of boat are short and directionally unstable , like our own . |
| 11 | In other words , we could look at youth culture as a way of understanding social changes taking place in society . |
| 12 | Cos that 's when , when , when we get to that nearer the date , we could , we could just , you know , when you 're confirmed that you 've been booked and you 're definitely going , erm we could look at the finances and see how much we could afford to , to give , erm , something to each person to help with , eit either with the accommodation or , or the transport . |
| 13 | Erm and er it could be that we could look at that . |
| 14 | We could look at that . ’ |
| 15 | And then we could look at it that way . |
| 16 | Whether we could look at our contract and see if this could be because mentioned about grass on the pavements , not only is it the machine that 's doing that , but there 's a danger to young children from the machines they 're using and elderly people with pavements being very very slippery once they 're doing the grass if it 's raining . |
| 17 | That 's something we could look at in the future because we can actually stagger the payments for that and it |
| 18 | I wondered if we could look at particularly customer relations producing some sort of voucher worth fifty pound or hundred pound or twenty five pound and er we have a stock of those printed up you know |
| 19 | So if we could look at those things and talk to the Government to see if it 's possible , it maybe it is n't possible then that 's a different argument but we should be seen to be doing something er to let this die on it 's own will A , will deprive other people for odd jobs and in some cases I 've met the representation two guys there who used their redundancy money for Airways to purchase er a small aircraft and are running a flying school . |
| 20 | Now somewhere on there we should say what the total is because we could look at this and we could say , well she saves erm half of it but does she , how much does she get ? |
| 21 | So I thought we could look at results now , which are probably the thing that 's most interesting . |
| 22 | He says he did think of whipping up and running them down , but it would have been useless , they could shoot far faster than we could drive at them . |
| 23 | Then she phoned back about ten minutes later and she said wondered if we could come at eleven o'clock in the morning . |
| 24 | We could dwell at length on problems of access , ignorance and prejudice and the inequities of the benefit system , but I wold like to focus on two areas — legislation and provision . |
| 25 | We could shop at one of their 19 superstores around the country and save a fortune . |
| 26 | Fortunately the visibility was excellent , and so we could fly at 3,000 feet above the terrain to give us a larger cone of vision as well as options in the event of engine failure . |
| 27 | Well we could put them all in the thing ca n't we ? all in the canned box , it 's lovely and we could put at the top no Pepsi can |
| 28 | ‘ We could work at it , ’ he replied evenly . |
| 29 | She said : ‘ We had lots of walks together , lots of tea parties on Sunday afternoons at Sunninghill ( the home near Ascot which was a wedding present to the Yorks ) , and lots of other moments when we could have at least started discussions . |
| 30 | We explained later it was to power a lightbulb so that we could read at night where there was no electricity . |