Example sentences of "[conj] we could [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole thing seemed faithfully in the past , where we could regard it with intense interest , and surround it with historical debate , but where it could do us , and our generation , no harm . |
| 2 | And the Scottish Highlands may be the only remaining region in the UK where we could find it . |
| 3 | Or we could leave it up to the electricity generators to reduce the impact , at the expense of higher bills . |
| 4 | one of our serious of the year , we should er extend that debate er we could extend as late perhaps half past one for lunch or we could bring it to half way between half past one , so the feeling in respect of that |
| 5 | It had certainly been built to last , and although we could see it had lost a lot of windows and the stonework was damaged , it was obviously going to be standing there a few more years yet . |
| 6 | Its original purpose was to enable us to turn our work so that we could rehang it with the plain side towards us , knit a few rows of reversed stocking stitch and then turn it back again to continue in stocking stitch or pattern . |
| 7 | We had to organise it so that we could move it on a Saturday night from Manchester to Oxford and get it ready for a full orchestra , circus , and technical rehearsal on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 8 | the point of view that the P A was booked for four thirty , so that we could set it up |
| 9 | You look ready to dance with rage , and although we might collect a few pennies from them in return for our providing such a spectacle I hardly think that we could put it on as a permanent entertainment ! ’ |
| 10 | Somewhat cheekily that committee came back to us and asked us very nicely would we provide about twenty five for the force , which we thought was a cheek but having said that we 've actually looked at it and there may well be a way that we could afford it . |
| 11 | It was all quite civilised and there were so many of us girls there that we could take it in turn to do the observations . |
| 12 | Envy between the sexes is so common that we could say it is inevitable — even natural . |
| 13 | As far as I could tell , the roof seemed to be consuming money faster than we could give it . |
| 14 | The demons of early agony of being abandoned when left alone for longer than we could bear it , the terror of being annihilated by a raging adult , the suffocating experience of being trapped in the tunnel of our mother 's body with a cord tightening round our neck … it is hard to face those feelings again . |
| 15 | Then they You dropped the old er breasts of lamb in the old stew pot , chop it up , and then if there was any left , me Mam used to take it out , so we could eat it cold . |
| 16 | He finished scribbling and held the Filofax sheet up so we could see it . |
| 17 | Well we 've asked him to meet us with regard to the footpaths , so we could use it for that at the same time , |
| 18 | and we could send it anonymously |
| 19 | ‘ I just wish we had a money tree and we could shake it and produce money to save the Naze . ’ |
| 20 | And we could make it better by making sure that the bags came in more correct like what Simon 's doing now with those printed labels . |
| 21 | If we could have it in writing and we could publicise it I 'm sure they would where to go and how to do it . |
| 22 | It was circular in shape and we could fit it up to take any number of wheels — three or four pairs if need be . |
| 23 | The landlord said that we could have the hall on Sunday evenings to run the club , and we could have it for nothing as he would make his money on increased bar sales . |
| 24 | Mum we 've got a scoop and we could put it in there |
| 25 | Erm and and and we could take it back to the hundred days episode when the great powers have all er decided to er er to prevent Napoleon from making a comeback in France . |
| 26 | ‘ It would be a start , and we could take it from there . |
| 27 | Originally cost twenty pounds and we could get it for ten it 's er |
| 28 | Our bullets could hurt it , and we could kill it . |
| 29 | It 's a good story to get him to do Shakespeare cos we could write it in , you know , Shakespeare in Rodney plonker language , you know . |
| 30 | Oh yes , she she knew what cos we could see it by her face . |