Example sentences of "we could [adv] have " 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 | We could both have been killed ! ’ |
| 3 | Then for it slit 2 was irrelevant ; we could momentarily have closed it up . |
| 4 | With Copsey and Gareth Llewellyn improving all the time , we could just have a bright future ahead of us . |
| 5 | As many Esso as possible by 14th October please , as we could just have enough to get a colour television for the Reunion raffle ! |
| 6 | Perhaps we could just have a look at what sort of angles we 've got here . |
| 7 | We could even have pinched it in the end . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I felt that if the game had gone on for just five more minutes , then we could even have won it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Never saw , you were n't meant to , and he says , no your mum said that we could either have a sweet or a starter , not both . |
| 12 | We 've been selling our wholesaler shoulder rates when we could easily have achieved high-season . |
| 13 | We 've given them three hundred and sixty-four thousand pounds of extra funding , which we could legitimately have taken away as , particularly in the way that it was done , and as I understand it they er , revealed their V I P protection two months early to the Home Office , and therefore cut our S S A by a substantial amount , and I would even perhaps start that as a , as I could , as a series of criticisms about the way the police maintain their budget , and about the way that they have responded . |
| 14 | Note that , in T6 , we make x 1 1 basic ( we could also have chosen x 21 ) , but must leave the basis ( not x 23 or X 3 1 ) in order to maintain an alternating BFS . |
| 15 | One feature alone redeems the book , namely that it illustrates many works which have rarely been reproduced since the original publication of the albums by Redon , though we could also have hoped that the quality of the reproductions were a little better . |
| 16 | As viewers of this scene we could also have deduced something about the relationship between John and Mary from the way they were sitting together and the way they looked at each other . |
| 17 | We could also have the feature open ; , , , , , would be ( +open ) , all the others being ( -open ) . |
| 18 | We could only have avoided that had we devoted some extra resources to the social security budget . |
| 19 | Brady explained : ‘ Jack Charlton wrote to me , saying he was sorry about the way it had ended and expressing the hope that we could still have a decent relationship . |
| 20 | ‘ But we could still have chaps like you taking messages back and forth , bringing tea , that sort of thing . |
| 21 | Then we could still have lunch . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If we beat Oxford and Plymouth on Saturday , we could still have a chance of automatic promotion . |
| 23 | Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Why , we could never have hoped to keep him . |
| 25 | It comes about as a result of our gratitude to God for his wiping out of a colossal debt that we could never have paid back ( Matt. |
| 26 | Without water-power we could never have afforded to heat the place . |
| 27 | ‘ As it turned out , we could never have survived , ’ says Jim . |
| 28 | He can not only bring to our remembrance what Jesus taught , but can reveal to us the deeper significance of his person , his death and resurrection which we could never have grasped by historical contemporaneity . |
| 29 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 30 | I mean to say er used to see people years ago and they got these cine cameras and and all , we could never have one of those you know and a record of the kids when they were young . |