Example sentences of "we could [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We er went as far as we could without er erm finding that we would have to delete allocations that we were making or produce unrealistic er development sites erm the the figure of er twenty five hectares simply means that we 're ratcheting the the whole thing down to a point at which it ca n't be sustained . |
| 2 | We held hands all the way through Live Aid , having not spoken to each other for a week , and then rushed off to the Post Office as soon as we could with our three pounds . |
| 3 | But if the general were the unclear , we could with reason abandon all science and inquiry . |
| 4 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 5 | After Munich there was a positive lurch to prepare as best we could with the near-hopeless equipment available . |
| 6 | We could on this basis begin to question the lives of many people which we would subjectively consider to be less fulfilling than our own . |
| 7 | We swam for about quarter of an hour and then walked back to the cave , dried ourselves as best we could on our shirts , and drove on , chests bare . |
| 8 | We dried off as best we could at the expensive on-site tourist hotel and , as the mist rose and a pale sun came out , paid our money and entered the site itself . |
| 9 | And if we were going to be bored , and we were usually bored , rarely being self-motivated , we could at least be bored on our own terms , lying smashed on mattresses in ruined houses rather than working in the machine . |
| 10 | I had the support of Anne Winterton , so we could at least talk together and walk through the lobbies together to give each other support . |
| 11 | For the next 2½ years we spent as much time as we could at the melin . |
| 12 | Given no avenues to think for ourselves , we could at least say ‘ No ’ to what others were seeking to foist upon us . |
| 13 | If today we can see better than we could at the time the agonized grandeur of the figure of Pope Paul , the one almost ‘ liberal ’ pope of modern times , we can also see how deeply uncertain was the Church he left behind him and — after twelve years — we begin too to be able to assess in its very different character the pontificate of John Paul II . |
| 14 | We could at that moment quite justifiably have concluded that the date of the bank was most probably in the early second century , like Verulamium , but we were saved from making this serious error by the presence in the trench of a small hearth immediately below the first load of rampart spoil . |
| 15 | But it , if if we wanted to change what we 've done already we we could at a certain stage have a level three , I mean I 've I 've ordered these books , you know mathematics level by level |
| 16 | Names are named , and we could at last see blood on the shelves . |
| 17 | We could at least find out . |
| 18 | The fact that our captors were confident and considerate enough to let us have the radio was almost as encouraging as the news we could at last listen to after two years of silence . |
| 19 | ‘ We could at least ride that way and see what 's what . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We could at a price , ’ Thorfinn said . |
| 21 | ‘ If we drove as hard as we could at that car coming towards us — ’ she began . |
| 22 | Additionally , why the hell 1–0 , we could at least hope if we do lose that we will go down all guns blazing in a stormer of a match , say 4–3 ( and Brian , might even score one against quality opposition — god forbid him score more though . |
| 23 | If we would just organise those leads once and for all , and essentially , erm the leads belong to the video recorders rather than the monitors , and if those somehow were attached , if we could at least tie them together or whatever |
| 24 | There simply is n't any dramatic , conflict in a story about a purported villain who wears a Beatle cap , drinks from a huge glass with fish in it and gazes out from his island home on the great blue sea as he waits for his pursuers , a pair of handsome would-be lovers who sing songs like ‘ We could of , we should of , perhaps we can . |
| 25 | Two sergeants and I stayed behind to try to salvage as much as we could of our stores of food . |
| 26 | We could of course give precise spatio-temporal specifications . |
| 27 | Yes , because in that case you could of , we could of drawn in people , describers from Perth |
| 28 | Oh yes , yes , we , the we had an extremely large rooms , I do n't know went , what , what , what went wrong the architect but we had two enormous rooms which could of been quite easily divided into three , but we could of had two bedrooms instead of one and the conse |
| 29 | The ideal way , way of arranging a room as I see it would be that you could have your separate rooms but have sliding doors , after all there 's nothing new in sliding doors , er , but doors opening and closing erm are restrictive , that 's only my own personal view , my wife does n't necessarily , necessarily share that view ideally if I was planning a house , the main room the main living room would be much larger than the one we live in , it would certainly be a different shape , erm when we had our golden wedding erm our visitors were so numerous that they were standing shoulder to shoulder in these two rooms and the kitchen whereas if it had been a reasonably designed house maybe we could of spread them around a little more , but they 're minor , minor defects that are not really serious . |
| 30 | Arising out of her description , we set about grouping modal verb forms according to their meaning , making as much use as we could of both negative and positive forms . |