Example sentences of "we could [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I I was hoping we could , we could avoid discussing the activities of too many District and London Borough Councils for that matter , such as Westminster today , erm , but erm , there are certainly some very fine London Borough Councils . |
| 2 | We finally realised that even on our meagre sum we could avoid having too much month left over at the end of our money . |
| 3 | A time was to be fixed for the expedition in the month of November , and by leaving in the evening on the ebb tide we could expect to reach the shores of Wight with the full morning flood . |
| 4 | ‘ This team will improve and we could expect to finish round about eighth in the Premier League without buying a player . ’ |
| 5 | Today we could expect to find perhaps a dozen employed ; but then , only 14 were retired in the broadest sense . |
| 6 | Well we could we could arrange to drive over |
| 7 | Perhaps we could arrange to go as a foursome ; we 'd have no trouble getting a table if I make the arrangements . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ In fact , I 've half a mind to join you two girls tomorrow in Sherwood Forest , and perhaps we could arrange to lose Anna somewhere in the bosky glades . ’ |
| 9 | We could arrange to meet halfway , say , Thailand or India . |
| 10 | What we could choose to do if we wanted to keep them as that figure head and as a P R agency almost , we could pay them a specific salary , similar to other people who work in advertising industry |
| 11 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 12 | Social Services are really a help , we could choose to ignore that , I have to say that I 'm not aware of that happening , and I think it 's very unlikely . |
| 13 | When Jean-Claude and I quit Park Terrace we did so with tea-chests packed with valuables of mine , largely selected by him from many more than we could manage to take . |
| 14 | we could manage to do that one day , if it 's fine this afternoon we might do something like that this afternoon , but if it rains it wo n't be any use , I also want to do the garden this afternoon |
| 15 | We could do do things like that |
| 16 | But then the dark powers rose , and the four Cities fell ; it was the most we could do to save the Treasures . |
| 17 | Horses and wagon were what they wanted , and what they took , for all we could do to stop them . |
| 18 | What does my right hon. Friend think that we could do to stop the drug being imported into this country , or arranging some reciprocal arrangement whereby we would stop importing Dutch cheese or some such thing ? |
| 19 | We asked ourselves what we could do to make the shops busy . |
| 20 | We considered what we could do to help and decided to link it with our interest in running . ’ |
| 21 | I wish there was something we could do to help him , though . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps we might all think about those who will not necessarily have that happy , healthy or prosperous time ahead and see if there is anything that we could do to help . |
| 23 | There was nothing we could do to pay back the debt of our existence . |
| 24 | It shows how much we could do to address the threat of climate change if we were really serious about saving energy . " |
| 25 | It was all we could do to avoid laughing out loud . |
| 26 | Is there anything we could do to keep Sombro enjoying the nightlife here instead of downtown , without having to tie him up ? |
| 27 | I took this medical test to be a sign that things were happening and that we could hope to go on to Paris , which Alex said was the next staging post . |
| 28 | I do not think we could justify turning our backs . ’ |
| 29 | Right , Whitchurch seven , the , the report they want , where we 're getting to and there is an appendix at the proposals of course , for developing erm , a forum for Whitchurch er , with a range of activities that we could undertake to try to regenerate some confidence in Whitchurch . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll admit you had cause for complaint when we used charcoal that needed a good layer of white ash before we could start cooking . |