Example sentences of "we could have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But if Mellor had not disputed our bill we could have survived a few more months in the hope that we would sell several houses on our books . ’ |
| 2 | We could have tossed a coin for Ayresome Park or Old Trafford if both clubs had agreed . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked . |
| 4 | We can not remember anyone ever asking us these questions and we are not sure we could have given a reasonable answer until we had been married nearly twenty years . |
| 5 | We could have created a fairer system without incidentally , the problems that have been referred to in earlier debates of trying to redraw boundaries at such short notice er before the European elections . |
| 6 | Leaving a dozen men under Ollokot to besiege Gibbon , Joseph led his people south at noon , hauling the wounded on travois and noting sadly : ‘ The Nez Perce never make war on women and children ; we could have killed a great many women and children while the war lasted , but we would feel ashamed to do so cowardly an act . ’ |
| 7 | For years our annual mileage was as high as 37,000 — we could have saved a fortune . ’ |
| 8 | Had you said this first instead of producing emotional gush about the hospital 's welfare , we could have saved a good deal of time . |
| 9 | They 'd brought a poor young woman with a baby in a pushchair and we traipsed all around , in and out of houses , it was bitterly cold , and at the end of the exercise I felt we could have saved a hell of a lot of time . |
| 10 | ‘ If only we could have had a child . |
| 11 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 12 | We established that she and Sir Richard are lovers , adulterers , fornicators , and in only a matter of time we could have had a confession that they were guilty of Sir Thomas 's death as well as the . |
| 13 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 14 | I welcome the declaration , which is a big step forward , but , given British experience and law , we could have had a directive in which we could have taken the lead . |
| 15 | Just think , colleagues , what we could have done with forty two million pounds , we could have had a conference twice a year not the biannual conference they 're on about . |
| 16 | We could have had a perfectly civilised meeting , and not this — ’ |
| 17 | And we only wanted the melted chocolate , we could have had a sticky finger then could n't we ? |
| 18 | We could have had a shower together . |
| 19 | No well we could have had a matching hair do . |
| 20 | We could have used a different host mother — using ova from one woman , and allowing another to act as the incubator for the conception — but we preferred to use the donor of the egg cell as the incubator , mainly to avoid any risk of rejection . |
| 21 | For example we could have used a simple computer such as the DEC PDP-8 , or a suitable hypothetical computer such as that presented for didactic purposes by Knuth ( 1968 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ If we did n't think we had a chance of winning the election we could have produced a manifesto that promised the earth , ’ said party chairman Kees Maxey . |
| 23 | We started by sending the Minister to a Desert Island , with just 8 records and 2 books ( come 19th May , we could have spared a few more ) . |
| 24 | My own belief , which is shared , oddly enough , by the head of the CIA , William Webster , is that sanctions would have eroded his military capacity so much that , given another nine months or so — assuming we has used that period for more flexible diplomacy , which we notably failed to do — then we could either have got him out by negotiation , or we could have promoted a situation inside Iraq in which he could n't fight . |
| 25 | The readers who wrote to us could have read a book , heard a story , or seen a film , and then forgotten about it . |