Example sentences of "we could [adv] [vb infin] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could just change them into sixths . |
| 2 | Their boots scraped on the floor ; we could just see them from beneath our tarpaulin . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose we could just ask them to stay in their rooms and watch the telly , ’ mused Morse ; but immediately withdrew the suggestion . |
| 4 | We could even grow them on Snowdon . |
| 5 | We could even send them a recycling sheet . |
| 6 | Similarly , we could follow up people 20 years on to assess the results of our child care work , but even if we could successfully trace them , is it right to contact them after all that time when their spouses and children may not know of their earlier histories ? |
| 7 | Sometimes our bodies and minds seek excuses to experience griefs that we may have put aside or denied because we could n't face them at the time . |
| 8 | ‘ We could n't lift them . |
| 9 | Alas , we could n't visit them all . |
| 10 | Alas , we could n't visit them all . |
| 11 | After all , we could n't feed them as we do n't have enough to eat ourselves . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But I told them if we could n't beat them without a boom , we did n't deserve to be in the finals . ’ |
| 13 | Although we could n't tell them that we 're trying to achieve because we have n't we have n't discussed |
| 14 | They were not the illegal so we could n't stop them from delivering them . |
| 15 | Up to that point , says Mr K , ‘ we could n't let them win . |
| 16 | ‘ If they were on the road we could n't hear them from the house , and I truly doubt that anyone would go home via the graveyard and the woods . |
| 17 | We drove all the way down in the snow but they caught us and said we could n't have them ; not surprisingly I suppose . ’ |
| 18 | We could n't fire them in 1945 because we ran out of fuel . |
| 19 | ‘ Earth needed results and we could n't get them . |
| 20 | Well we had er the business was quite good er we had er we could do , of course at the end of the war , we could have done with an awful lot more cars , but we could n't get them . |
| 21 | It is possible that , while we lose the administrative costs incurred by property valuation , we could easily replace them with the valuations of the poll tax for many different households . |
| 22 | Yes , we could probably make them , but they would be rather difficult . |
| 23 | We group them into species merely as a convenience ; if we did not do so , we could not give them names : hence ‘ nominalism ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ But we could not follow them far because of the snow . |
| 25 | Unfortunately we were unable to get the boilers inspected until the Monday after the event , so we could not steam them . |
| 26 | If our presuppositions were right but we could not believe them , the problem would lie elsewhere ( as we will see in chapters eight and eleven ) . |
| 27 | We looked for the killers , but we could not find them . |
| 28 | You know , but i if we could n't , if they we as they said , if they wanted that money back tomorrow we could only give them half that money back because of what we 've got |
| 29 | ‘ I had never heard of this before , and you can imagine the complaints from customers , we could only tell them once the police had told us . |
| 30 | But what we could do of course , is is we put in a time between containers , we could always use them to re-palletize it . |