Example sentences of "we could [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film crew and myself were left scratching our heads , accepting that we had a long wait before we could even contemplate some kind of interview . |
| 2 | We could accordingly rewrite this opening as : In the " Sonnet on the Death of Mr Richard West " , formal qualities of the sonnet ( such as its rhyme scheme , division between octave and sestet and mode of address ) are moulded to suit the mournful tone of an emotional elegy . |
| 3 | We could n't make any decision on Mr Maxwell s behalf . |
| 4 | Similarly for Locke we 're in this world , sent by God about his business , the business is , in very general terms , to flourish and multiply this means , well that is the reason why we have certain rights , the right to life , the right to liberty , the right to property because if we did n't have these rights we could n't fulfil that obligation . |
| 5 | I got wet and then I got dry ! and we could n't do this job because of the weather . |
| 6 | and we could n't see any smoke belting down the corridor so we thought well oh ! give me my coat ! |
| 7 | But on one mysterious occasion the sado-manager waived the rules and waved us in : we could n't understand this behaviour at all , but took up the offer nevertheless , putting it down to grown-up inconsistency . |
| 8 | we were , we were furniture made , you know , all we thought about was the home and in fact once we could n't afford any wall paper we were decorating so George painted the wall white and we got saucepan lids , and even the dustbin lid and with er , er , a black pen , felt type pen I suppose although felt pens were n't out then |
| 9 | They 're dyed also naturally in the medieval way with red for the madder and then welled to give the yellow as the basis of digris and then a woad an indigo from woad erm slightly cheating there because we could n't have enough woad , we have to use import the actual substance . |
| 10 | Even when the sound button was pressed we could n't get any sound volume m sound out of it whatever . |
| 11 | And I 'm sorry about that because we could probably settle this thing in twenty minutes . ’ |
| 12 | Now , the process we recognise in the pa pathogenesis of meningitis due to this organism is as follows , first of all and then it is able , by , mechanisms not completely described but we could probably involve this transpschycosis er phenomenon that er , I I briefly mentioned last time . |
| 13 | So , even if we had a precise account of adult human knowledge of inside , support , and behind , we could not equate any part of this with a cat 's or a chimp 's knowledge simply by jettisoning those parts of it influenced by our linguistic representations . |
| 14 | Although we could not confirm this finding statistically , none of the small number of our patients aged less than 50 ( n=18 ) who was treated with ursodeoxycholic acid , developed recurrence . |
| 15 | " Deferential conservatives " , " militant labourites " , " alienated workers " , " authoritarian personalities " , are types that are a sample of some population , but we could not list that population in advance . |
| 16 | If the sceptic 's conclusion were true we could not have such knowledge ; so if the conclusion were true we would not be able to understand it . |
| 17 | It would be hard to see how communication could take place if we could not take some sort of mutually shared knowledge for granted , if every discourse had to begin from scratch . |
| 18 | He would be wasted because we could not get enough ball to him . |
| 19 | In the AL and AH cases , we could not find any amyloid in the myenteric plexuses . |
| 20 | Yeah but we could still go this way . |
| 21 | But even if that were the case , we could still maintain that research is not part of what we understand higher education to be . |
| 22 | We could really make this place swing if only they gave us the data to work on , could n't we ? ’ |
| 23 | As far as I 'm concerned personally , I think it 's very , very weak , take it back and re-draft it and allow the employees to be in the control of their own destiny , because after a national fraud and a scandal that 's taken place that we could never trust any employer to carry out a scheme . |
| 24 | Alice was already thinking : Yes , tonight you 'd think we 'll all be friends for life , we could never harm each other , but it could all change , just like that ! |
| 25 | We could always make each other laugh . |
| 26 | I did n't think we could possibly organize this evening , but we have . |
| 27 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |
| 28 | Surely , the lowest level of coordinated action at which we could seriously confront this question is that of the European Community ? |
| 29 | I wish we could actually understand each other . |
| 30 | Well we could I mean there are many ways there are many ways that we could actually fill this building apart from putting Jimmy Jones on there 's lot 's of things perhaps we could really put on which we would . |