Example sentences of "we could [vb infin] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modem linkage for Dawyck will be needed within the next five years , and it may be that at that point we could decide to install a multiplexor to deal with all of our external computer links — use of local EUCS services , JANET , PSS , Royline and others . |
| 2 | He held a special mass and gave me and another woman some money so we could go to see a doctor because we had both been so badly beaten . |
| 3 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 4 | Well we could 've got a second hand one , but I mean what I 'll pay for a second hand one we might as well get |
| 5 | ‘ We could 've had a pizza in town , ’ she reminded him . |
| 6 | We could 've had a two forty video tape , it said , two forty on it and when we put it in were n't it ? . |
| 7 | The only one I would mention Chairman is not strictly accurate , we all did , lots of us anyway , the , the British Legion service on Sunday at the church and I just wondered if we could agree to send a letter to the president cos once again a lot of effort and time and organization went into it and I thought it was an excellent occasion and I think he might appreciate |
| 8 | Instead of converting the programs from one machine code to another , we could envisage writing a program for the new computer to simulate the old computer at the instruction level . |
| 9 | Well that 's interesting because we were wondering who we could get to have a look at our lawns and tell what 's wrong with it because they are not very good are they ? |
| 10 | ‘ But if Mellor had not disputed our bill we could have survived a few more months in the hope that we would sell several houses on our books . ’ |
| 11 | We could have tossed a coin for Ayresome Park or Old Trafford if both clubs had agreed . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked . |
| 13 | We can not remember anyone ever asking us these questions and we are not sure we could have given a reasonable answer until we had been married nearly twenty years . |
| 14 | We could have created a fairer system without incidentally , the problems that have been referred to in earlier debates of trying to redraw boundaries at such short notice er before the European elections . |
| 15 | Leaving a dozen men under Ollokot to besiege Gibbon , Joseph led his people south at noon , hauling the wounded on travois and noting sadly : ‘ The Nez Perce never make war on women and children ; we could have killed a great many women and children while the war lasted , but we would feel ashamed to do so cowardly an act . ’ |
| 16 | For years our annual mileage was as high as 37,000 — we could have saved a fortune . ’ |
| 17 | Had you said this first instead of producing emotional gush about the hospital 's welfare , we could have saved a good deal of time . |
| 18 | They 'd brought a poor young woman with a baby in a pushchair and we traipsed all around , in and out of houses , it was bitterly cold , and at the end of the exercise I felt we could have saved a hell of a lot of time . |
| 19 | ‘ If only we could have had a child . |
| 20 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 21 | We established that she and Sir Richard are lovers , adulterers , fornicators , and in only a matter of time we could have had a confession that they were guilty of Sir Thomas 's death as well as the . |
| 22 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 23 | I welcome the declaration , which is a big step forward , but , given British experience and law , we could have had a directive in which we could have taken the lead . |
| 24 | Just think , colleagues , what we could have done with forty two million pounds , we could have had a conference twice a year not the biannual conference they 're on about . |
| 25 | We could have had a perfectly civilised meeting , and not this — ’ |
| 26 | And we only wanted the melted chocolate , we could have had a sticky finger then could n't we ? |
| 27 | We could have had a shower together . |
| 28 | No well we could have had a matching hair do . |
| 29 | We could have used a different host mother — using ova from one woman , and allowing another to act as the incubator for the conception — but we preferred to use the donor of the egg cell as the incubator , mainly to avoid any risk of rejection . |
| 30 | For example we could have used a simple computer such as the DEC PDP-8 , or a suitable hypothetical computer such as that presented for didactic purposes by Knuth ( 1968 ) . |