Example sentences of "we could [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We could both do with some tea while the three of us are talking over what plans need to be made . |
| 2 | I think we could both do with a luxury evening with good food , soft lights and a tranquil background . |
| 3 | Sam ( RH ) : We could just do a year and everything but … you see … everything that might be happening then . |
| 4 | No we could just do like something with us in here . |
| 5 | Erm we could even do it without bothering with twelfths on this . |
| 6 | I think sometimes that we have a shade of the undergraduate in our government which we could well do without to strengthen and consolidate this nation . |
| 7 | This is true only for music which moves in regular patterns , and we could well do otherwise if we wish . |
| 8 | Music has a time-span which is very different from that of speech — it spreads words into another time dimension , so that whereas a writer has to ‘ pad out ’ his thoughts to give his words extra body , such padding becomes burdensome in music — unwanted material we could well do without . |
| 9 | Well , I mean sh we could probably do it cheaper , you know |
| 10 | Yeah , well no we have n't so we could probably do with doing |
| 11 | Suez was the watershed between our imperial past and our offshore island future : before Suez we sought to restore our declining power ; after Suez we shed our self-imposed colonial responsibilities as fast as we could reasonably do so . |
| 12 | Peck , though , dismisses the event as ‘ humour ’ and Justin Simpson comments : ‘ If this fable was trustworthy we could scarcely do otherwise than believe that not only was Stamford in days past frequently honoured by the presence of English Kings and Queens , but also that His Satanic Majesty occasionally hunted in the neighbourhood . ’ |
| 13 | We felt we could only do it through local pressure , using the media and direct action ’ , a member of the group recalled . |
| 14 | We could only do so if in our view he was so clearly and outrageously wrong that his decision could properly be said to be irrational . |
| 15 | But , we could only do that from procedure levels and . |
| 16 | IMO we could still do with a Ruddock type figure at the back . |
| 17 | We could certainly do with a rota of people to man the museum and more volunteers to put on it . |
| 18 | Erm we could certainly do that . |
| 19 | What we could really do with is an Easter egg with an egg cup with it . |
| 20 | We could never do that with Argentine ponies : they just bolted in terror . |
| 21 | The Messiah has done for us what we could never do in putting us in the right with God ; and the gift of his Spirit releases us from the need to try to justify ourselves . |
| 22 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 23 | We could always do posting on the side of the Conservative building . |
| 24 | Or we could always do the Aqua Suite . |
| 25 | Well all these people , we would always let them ha when we killed one we would share it out amongst the people who had given them , like er , I do n't say every time but occasionally we would do that and we 'd let them have a piece of pork you see , which we could legally do see . |
| 26 | If we said , like , if we , every second month say or every third month , then we , we knew we were going to have a speaker , we could the time before we could then do the business more thoroughly and carefully so that the month of the speaker we could just go through it very quickly . |
| 27 | He did not see how we could possibly do so under modern conditions . ' |
| 28 | ‘ You know what I want to do — and I wanted to do it for Jimi 's birthday in his anniversary year , but it did n't happen — I want to get everybody that ever recorded with him , anybody who played live with him , get them all at a big reunion and go out and play Hendrix all night long — every song that I know , every song that we could possibly do . |
| 29 | " The judge asked how we could possibly do any more with the garden , and it 's true that the only way forward is by making small changes , which we like to do as it gives us so much enjoyment . " |
| 30 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |