Example sentences of "we could [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few hours ' walking along the ridge we could clearly see Koitobos , one of the peaks surrounding the crater rim — a long , flat-topped buttress with a steep cone at one end , composed of large , dark brown , vertical columns . |
| 2 | Well this is a marvellous new form of economics , if we could just create things and er export them without getting paid for them and it would n't us . |
| 3 | We could just put manager could n't we ? |
| 4 | We could just see Lake Zwai and beyond it a wall of mountains on the far side of the Rift Valley . |
| 5 | We could just juggle things around . ’ |
| 6 | Take the spare bits of ‘ your ’ animal home for the freezer , and we could even sell videos , with stereo sound , of its death at your very own hands , to amuse your guests at dinner parties . |
| 7 | Because to me Danny Blanchflower , we lost England 's number one , now we 've lost Ireland 's number one , and it looks like we could even lose John , before long , of a similar type of er illness . |
| 8 | But we could well encounter sales resistance if it is the biggest . |
| 9 | At present , there are too few places that cater properly for tourists , yet we could easily create facilities which would attract more visitors , and encourage them to spend more , too . |
| 10 | It was further away from the centre of London and our home , and we could easily take Magwitch abroad by boat from there . |
| 11 | We could also see Amy playing , and we could count the money Mr Smith saved for both parents to spend on cleaning materials which we could watch them using ! |
| 12 | We knew that our first step had to be spending time learning how we could best help Vietnam 's children . |
| 13 | We could only acquire areas outside our own boundary with the consent of the two other local authorities . |
| 14 | Both Dr Laurent and Dr Blackwell thought that it was a virus infection but we could only isolate bacteria in our small microscopes . |
| 15 | You could feel the crowd willing it in but it did n't make it and I was beginning to feel it was slipping away , and especially when we could only make par at the 17th . |
| 16 | But we could only take care of little children ! |
| 17 | We could only use candles it night if we were working , because they were in very short supply . |
| 18 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 19 | ‘ But we could still have chaps like you taking messages back and forth , bringing tea , that sort of thing . |
| 20 | Then we could still have lunch . ’ |
| 21 | At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer . |
| 22 | There were another three Jet Skis buzzing around on that part of the river and a few water-skiers with their big-engined speedboats , all creating a fair old racket , but we could still hear William laughing ; the guy thought buying a frighteningly expensive piece of machinery and spending most of your time falling off it into the water was just the most enormous wheeze . |
| 23 | ‘ We could really make waves ! |
| 24 | We could sell his story but we could never make money from other people 's suffering … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We could never open talks with such a barbarous regime , ’ its spokesmen say . |
| 26 | It was a long time before we recovered from the loss , and I vowed never to have another dog because we could never replace Sorrel . |
| 27 | ‘ We could never afford things , ’ recalls Bryan . |
| 28 | We could never ask questions . |
| 29 | And then we could always send Brian out to be the motorbike dispatch rider could n't we ? |
| 30 | We could always ask Scott if we could put them on ! |