Example sentences of "we could [adv] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to do this , we classify the adverts into types " aimed at women " and " aimed at men " ( we could instead have classified them as " television " versus " magazine " or " Italian " versus " British " , etc. ; and if our first attempt to classify gets us nowhere we might try one or more of these alternatives at a later stage ) . |
| 2 | Then for it slit 2 was irrelevant ; we could momentarily have closed it up . |
| 3 | In fact we had to turf out dozens before we could even start filming . ’ |
| 4 | We could even have pinched it in the end . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I felt that if the game had gone on for just five more minutes , then we could even have won it . |
| 6 | Had we kept the scheme going , we could soon have accumulated a sizeable fighting force , ready to do battle on land , sea or air and happy to seize the controls of any passing battle-sub . |
| 7 | My own belief , which is shared , oddly enough , by the head of the CIA , William Webster , is that sanctions would have eroded his military capacity so much that , given another nine months or so — assuming we has used that period for more flexible diplomacy , which we notably failed to do — then we could either have got him out by negotiation , or we could have promoted a situation inside Iraq in which he could n't fight . |
| 8 | I decided we could n't continue to rely on showbiz . |
| 9 | He said ‘ No , sorry ’ , to which we replied that we could n't continue to play or back David if we were n't going to get any money . |
| 10 | There was no way we could put TI money into the company , we could n't justify doing that to the shareholders because it looked to us as though BA was going to go under . |
| 11 | But now he was cuddling me and whispering in my ear with helpless pleading , " Hold me — hold me — " Suddenly I was hugging him with all my strength ; our bodies were strung tight together and we were kissing each other 's cheeks with little frantic kisses — we could n't bear to draw apart even enough to find each other 's lips . |
| 12 | ‘ We could n't start training GPs until we knew what was going to happen locally . |
| 13 | And we always took our wives because we could n't stand to kiss 'em goodbye . ‘ |
| 14 | We could n't wait to get each other 's clothes off . |
| 15 | We could n't help laughing . |
| 16 | But we could n't resist quoting captain Martyn Moxon at length in a piece he has penned for the club . |
| 17 | But when the issue came before the Cabinet it decided in favour of the oil company : " The Foreign Office , the Commonwealth Office , the Ministry of Power , the D.E.A. ( Department of Economic Affairs ) and the Treasury all insisted that we could n't afford to upset a foreign oil company . " |
| 18 | ‘ However , we could n't afford to take any chances and steps were taken to replace the locks as soon as the theft was reported . ’ |
| 19 | It 's growing but it 's not so big a piece of business that we could n't afford to do an acquisition , if it made sense . ’ |
| 20 | We could n't afford to drink ! |
| 21 | Although PRO wo n't confirm that it paid some $600,000 for the suite ( UX No 406 ) , the decision to plump for 88open 's testing technology was thought to be purely financial : ‘ we could n't afford to spend that kind of money developing our own alternative , so we bought in . ’ |
| 22 | We knew that jobs were not easy to obtain … we could n't afford to risk getting the sack . |
| 23 | for the Water Board so he 's got quite a good job you know , but erm , I 'm , we could n't afford to put the other through the apprentice because I mean you had n't got the money had you then |
| 24 | We put the kitchen and bathroom in ourselves because we could n't afford to pay anyone to do it . ’ |
| 25 | Okay , so we could n't afford to compromise the Asmar network with a rescue operation , but there was another reason , too , why we had to leave them where they were . |
| 26 | We could n't afford to buy and rents are exorbitant . |
| 27 | We could n't afford to have that guy in . |
| 28 | David did n't think it was a good idea but I said we could n't keep going out and using the phone box down the road . |
| 29 | We could n't have understood the message , but we sensed undisclosed meaning and were afraid . |
| 30 | It 's not because we could n't have done it . |