Example sentences of "[adv] we could [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Munich there was a positive lurch to prepare as best we could with the near-hopeless equipment available . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But we actually needed a procedure , that procedure was followed as best we could by borrowing another rule and it was achieved at the end of the day . |
| 5 | Hepworth was to speak wistfully of ‘ a pressure in the air which we did not understand ’ , saying that ‘ we worked on as best we could in spite of it . ’ |
| 6 | Our next door neighbours at La Bérade , a father and son doing hut walks and easy passes , possessed a copy of Rebuffat 's Hundred Best Routes in the Dauphiné which we devoured as best we could in our compound fractured French . |
| 7 | We went whenever we could in foursomes … |
| 8 | Well we could of bought that one really last time could we ? |
| 9 | 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 . |