Example sentences of "[conj] we could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A tiny little place we could run ourselves , and have our own things with us , and where we could do what we liked . |
| 2 | She felt we should get her a healthier place , one where we could stay with her when we come over here . ’ |
| 3 | The solution might well be an ecumenical link , or a secular organisation where we could bring a spiritual dimension . |
| 4 | ‘ Where 's our nearest timber yard , our own yard , where we could handle trees like yon ? ’ |
| 5 | The whole thing seemed faithfully in the past , where we could regard it with intense interest , and surround it with historical debate , but where it could do us , and our generation , no harm . |
| 6 | Easter Island has a temperate climate , and only two tiny beaches far from the sole settlement of Hangaroa , There is but one small hotel ; our preference was for a guest house where we could meet a local family . |
| 7 | Point of call on the way will probably be Leicester Forest East 3.30–4pm where we could meet up with anyone from South-East area . |
| 8 | Perhaps someone could lure some , sportsmen , in tweeds into its tenebrous depths , where we could leap down on them from a great height to tweak their noses and fill their plus fours with cornflakes . |
| 9 | This area became our most precious place ; where we took the children to teach them how to fish ; to watch black , and red-throated divers , golden eagle , golden plover , greenshank and dunlin ; where we could walk endless miles with only the sky and the wind for company . |
| 10 | There was a small patio where we could walk , but it was surrounded by men shouting at us and harassing us ’ . |
| 11 | There seems to be nowhere where we could start , no sentence whose meaning is , as it were , self-contained enough to be learnable as a first step towards learning the rest . |
| 12 | In the evenings we would stroll along the Corniche and have dinner at a riverside restaurant where we could watch the feluccas passing through the reflections of the lights on Elephantine Island . |
| 13 | GUIL : Our names shouted in a certain dawn … a message … a summons … there must have been a moment , at the beginning , where we could have said — no . |
| 14 | He could quite easily have asked to meet me or my noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces — with whom he has been corresponding , as he said — at the Ministry of Defence , where we could have discussed the matter in a more suitable environment . |
| 15 | It was considered that our pool of crewing officers had now grown to such an extent that we needed a forum where we could air our views and keep in touch both socially and with official trends , bearing in mind that our officers were now drawn from every part of the UK and from many different aspects of Customs and Excise . |
| 16 | I hope you will all keep your eyes and ears open for events where we could display and/or publicise Medau . |
| 17 | that we should not have been asked to comment on … the way the curriculum would be affected by these materials and how the school itself would be looking at its way of using them , other than perhaps information skills where we could help them with commercial publications to give them some ideas . |
| 18 | We would look for a station where we could park , say goodbye and then go home . |
| 19 | And the Scottish Highlands may be the only remaining region in the UK where we could find it . |
| 20 | His head was turned towards the door , where we could hear footsteps approaching . |
| 21 | What we both needed was to get away for a couple of days , to go somewhere peaceful , relaxing and free of any association with the past , where we could work out where we stood . |
| 22 | We had to choose a placement where we could work . |
| 23 | ‘ Is there anywhere near here where we could get some bread and cheese ? ’ asked Breeze , thinking that at this moment she could eat a dog-biscuit with gusto . |
| 24 | On Saturday we had an option of staying in camp and being lazy , reading or whatever , or paddling across the lake and climbing a 2 ½ mile mountain where we could climb a Ranger tower to see a magnificent view of the entire area . |
| 25 | Do a pudding or we could do erm custard . |
| 26 | I can supply you free of charge with the blue one if you wish then or we could think about it . |
| 27 | ‘ If you like , or we could go back to my flat ? ’ |
| 28 | Or we could go to cabin 10 . ’ |
| 29 | Or we could go away . |
| 30 | I do hope you do n't think this is presumptuous , and I expect you are very busy generally , but perhaps you and your husband would like to come here for supper one evening , or we could go out somewhere , or if it 's easier , I could drop in to you one evening for a short time for a chat . |