Example sentences of "we could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean we could cook it much more cheaply but we we do that then they 'd just they 'll throw the book at us , we ca n't do it . |
| 2 | the erm , you know they had some sausage left over , so I thought if I cook them then you know , if you wanted to we could cook the ham |
| 3 | While they must have been closely linked , it would help if we could distinguish between the circulation of such goods and their deposition in graves , for it is the latter which is actually being studied . |
| 4 | ( Alternatively we could distinguish between two forms of justification , justification before the event and justification after it , and run the tripartite definition in terms of the former ; but then the question would be whether these really are two forms of the same thing . ) |
| 5 | But I I think there is a body of opinion out there that we could tap , which would be supported . |
| 6 | We could cement our relationship now . ’ |
| 7 | As we have said we are a new newsletter team and feel we could print a newsletter containing what we wanted or what we thought ought to be there . |
| 8 | The weight of a guitar is another thing ; we could print the weight of one Les Paul Standard , but the next one could easily be 10% heavier , or lighter , so we 'd have misled our readers by giving a poundage . |
| 9 | Laura was very excited too because until then we could only produce two colours but now , suddenly , we could print eight ; it was revolutionary . |
| 10 | ‘ We could print it in the parish magazine . ’ |
| 11 | But in theory you could do posters here at Mansfield and you could send out , we could print them in colour for you |
| 12 | I want to see the er possibility of British Rail being able to say , well you know we could improve our act , we could do things differently , and er we we wou we have experience of running a railway , and therefore , you know , please let us bid . |
| 13 | We could improve on a little bit was er , the time spent on incoming calls and queries which is hard to get away from . |
| 14 | I think the more people who are aware of the alternatives that are in the building industry we could improve on this . |
| 15 | We could dance round them , there 'd be enough space , you know . |
| 16 | ‘ I knew we could rely on you . ’ |
| 17 | Starting out to research the topic of women , power and politics , Margaret Stacey and I soon realised that we could rely on little in the way of help from traditional approaches to the study of politics . |
| 18 | We miss her presence at head office — both as a character and a colleague on whom we could rely 100 per cent . |
| 19 | ‘ In the old days we could rely on the same spectators attending match after match , whatever the weather or the results . |
| 20 | If we could shrink ourselves to the atomic scale , we would see almost endless rows of atoms , stretching to the horizon in straight lines — galleries of geometric repetition . |
| 21 | We could say , we could entitle it industrial relations in Northumberland ? |
| 22 | But I 'll tell you this , that young man has done more for Wales already than we could dream of . ’ |
| 23 | We asked North West Water , more as a matter of courtesy than a private arrangement , whether we could place the bolts and I do n't see that our arrangement undermines BMC policy . ’ |
| 24 | We could place the marble in one hole ( state A ) and it would remain there indefinitely . |
| 25 | Taking the example of the Earth 's surface , which we assume to be a perfect sphere , we could place the origin at the North Pole N as in Fig. 3.1 . |
| 26 | If we could place decisions at nodes 2 and 3 as well as at node 4 there would be 5 paths through the graph instead of 12 . |
| 27 | This provided us with an opportunity to investigate the whales to see if we could discover anything about them that might explain why they had beached themselves . |
| 28 | That I discovered when on quite another ploy — with a school gang visiting any Telford churches we could discover ( information on them being scarce in those days ) . |
| 29 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 30 | Benjamin studied some of these and so did I but we could discover nothing amiss . |