Example sentences of "we could " in BNC.
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| 1 | If for any reason you wanted to give each monthly payment direct to ACET , we could hold the money in an account in your name until the amount accumulated reaches the £600 threshold . |
| 2 | ‘ We are all culpable in Carlotta 's death , since we agreed to let her stay behind ; we could have ordered her to return . ’ |
| 3 | If only we could bring it into focus , he wrote , if only we could concentrate hard enough , we might be able to understand what it is . |
| 4 | If only we could bring it into focus , he wrote , if only we could concentrate hard enough , we might be able to understand what it is . |
| 5 | Angus Crichton-Miller , managing director of the Rank Organisation 's holidays and hotels division and a member of the study group said : ‘ It is not an efficient system to have such changes between busy and quiet periods and it would be better if we could flatten prices over a longer season , rather than have such high-peak-season prices . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , we could start by working out exactly how and when the cakes arrived . ’ |
| 7 | When that happened , we could n't keep up with the mortgage payments so we lost the house . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps we could instigate a national drive to recycle on a grand scale — from restaurants , BR etc — and sell them as a peat alternative ! |
| 9 | We took it in turns to see how close we could get . |
| 10 | We could host University seminars to which speakers of note could be invited to attend . |
| 11 | We could purchase our own houses while they lived in police colonies , denied the privilege of house purchase until they had fifteen years ' service ; this classified them as ‘ peasants , serfs , living in the feudal world of tithed cottages ’ . |
| 12 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 13 | Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Listen , we could get going on your bit now , ’ she said . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps we could have lunch before you go ? ’ she forced out , as if the idea was merely spur of the moment , merely friendly , merely pleasant . |
| 16 | I said something like , well , I was trying to make her feel at ease , oh , something like , we could make a habit of this , and just have fun , Lucy . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps we could have a drink outside , ’ said the woman as the French family exploded with bellowed laughter and banging fists . |
| 18 | ‘ But they will never take you , Don — I will hide you here — no , I will hide you up at the old shieling hut — or we could run away west into Rannoch — ‘ There are forts everywhere . |
| 19 | ‘ This is a castle , not a cottage , we could sit here in safety for a year . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Ach — I was sure he would be with you — we could have taken our own time then . |
| 21 | She took him by the hands and said eagerly , ‘ Don — we could live here — it is right for us — would you like that , Don ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Do you think we could feed them if they were in refuges in the woods and the back glens ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Of course we could . |
| 24 | ‘ We could not incriminate the others — well , at least their names are safe now . |
| 25 | Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands . ’ |
| 26 | If you knew we could not train you . |
| 27 | ‘ We could talk better . ’ |
| 28 | We could even watch it in bed . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We could build on a garden room . ’ |
| 30 | We could n't live there with it in that state . ’ |