Example sentences of "[subord] we could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A tiny little place we could run ourselves , and have our own things with us , and where we could do what we liked . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was considered that our pool of crewing officers had now grown to such an extent that we needed a forum where we could air our views and keep in touch both socially and with official trends , bearing in mind that our officers were now drawn from every part of the UK and from many different aspects of Customs and Excise . |
| 4 | that we should not have been asked to comment on … the way the curriculum would be affected by these materials and how the school itself would be looking at its way of using them , other than perhaps information skills where we could help them with commercial publications to give them some ideas . |
| 5 | And the Scottish Highlands may be the only remaining region in the UK where we could find it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As far as I could tell , the roof seemed to be consuming money faster than we could give it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But only so we could do our work . |
| 10 | Anyway , at Fontainebleau the doors were thrown open so we could feast our eyes on this Most Christian of Kings . |
| 11 | The path through the still narrowing gorge by now had frequent ladders and sometimes chains so we could steady ourselves as we climbed crystal clear waterfalls — some stopped in motion , still under the all-encompassing spell of the powerful winter ice . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Armed with walkie-talkies so we could trail her progress at a distance , we waited until noon when she nervously approached and then eagerly ate all her dinner , with the added sedatives . |
| 14 | who had taken our side , rented some lands to FECCAS so we could work them in cooperatives . |
| 15 | ‘ We had to call the police helicopter in to light up the area so we could see what we were doing . ’ |
| 16 | He finished scribbling and held the Filofax sheet up so we could see it . |
| 17 | ‘ Could n't you at least wait until halftime so we could discuss our communication problem ? ’ |
| 18 | A Dunkirk he waited for us so we could tail him through Lille and Mons into Belgium . |
| 19 | My wife asked me to dismantle an island breakfast bar , and retain the units so we could incorporate them into the existing kitchen later . |
| 20 | Christmas , Christmas would be twice a year so we could have lots of good cheer . |
| 21 | Well we 've asked him to meet us with regard to the footpaths , so we could use it for that at the same time , |
| 22 | We used to mark her up special on the calendar ; and we took care to make a right good job of her : we took an extra lot of trouble with her shoes so we could keep her away as long as we could . |
| 23 | It 's as simple as that cos we could send you off to St Andrews or something like that to er to well I 'm just I 'm homing in on the erm on the golf on the basis that I you you 're er you 're representative for a a company that does is involved with golf equipment . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Cos we could have somebody in to help that 's all I 'm thinking if she says yeah I 'm sure you could get something from |
| 26 | Oh yes , she she knew what cos we could see it by her face . |
| 27 | Cos we could put it into lots of ten . |
| 28 | When he finally arrived in Calcutta he was not of course allowed to stay with us at the Sisters , which puzzled you children , but he stayed with the Oxford Mission Fathers and came over every day to see us , until a kindly businessman heard about us and took us along to his palatial house until we could decide what next to do . |
| 29 | Baling out over Malta had now become a somewhat risky business , as Doug Whitney recalls : ‘ They ( the Maltese ) were so bitter about the bombing that they inclined to treat anyone baling out as an enemy and this became so bad we all carried revolvers to protect ourselves until we could convince them otherwise . |
| 30 | Well a cooker you definitely , a fridge say we could perhaps borrow that one of mum 's until we could afford one . |