Example sentences of "if we could [vb infin] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boys asked if we could pay them some ‘ small money ’ to buy pens for schools . |
| 2 | Do n't know if we could hold them to , to it . |
| 3 | If we could observe them , it would provide a good test of this picture of a very hot early stage of the universe . |
| 4 | Oh yes , yes it did yes er I do n't know whether it made us get more idle or what but erm the hours we used to work and erm I , I never had a sitting-down job I was standing all the while , and I only went if we could sort the keys out you know , we were lucky if we could sort them out to put the keys ready for packing you see , everybody wanted that job . |
| 5 | It is fortunate that we ca n't hear them , incidentally , for they are immensely powerful and would be deafeningly loud if we could hear them , and impossible to sleep through . |
| 6 | Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something . |
| 7 | We could always ask Scott if we could put them on ! |
| 8 | two hundred and twenty nine then hundred and seventy five but I mean if we could sell them six quid a time well |
| 9 | Motives are very difficult to uncover , and , even if we could know them , they would reveal little about the likely course of foreign policy . |
| 10 | We 've got the department quality manuals , working guideline , we 've got the quality control manual , we 've got the quality manual erm , it would be nice to see if we could harmonise them . |