Example sentences of "we could [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam ( RH ) : We could just do a year and everything but … you see … everything that might be happening then . |
| 2 | And we could just hev a lock o ’ goat 's cheese . ’ |
| 3 | We could just toss a coin . |
| 4 | With Copsey and Gareth Llewellyn improving all the time , we could just have a bright future ahead of us . |
| 5 | Perhaps we could just have a look at what sort of angles we 've got here . |
| 6 | Never saw , you were n't meant to , and he says , no your mum said that we could either have a sweet or a starter , not both . |
| 7 | If that gap is n't narrowed , we could well see a backlash as business doing their bit for the environment lose heart at the apparent lack of consumer interest . |
| 8 | If the Government 's agricultural land tenancy reform proposals go through , which I rather hope they do , it 'll be a little while yet , we could well see a change in the security of tenure issue , which might make it easier to achieve er , vacancy and vacant possession . |
| 9 | I was I was looking at the syllabus last night and I was working out how much we 've got to do yet and where we are an and I really do feel confident that no matter where you are in your course work situation , that if w if we planned the thing right and we sort it out between now and the summer , tha that we could well get a good few Grade A's in here and obviously work it well . |
| 10 | It goes like this : we could easily train a parrot to respond to a certain signal with the words ‘ Going to the bank ’ . |
| 11 | By the late 1990s we could also become a net exporter of cars because of heavy investment by Nissan , Honda and Toyota . |
| 12 | If it was n't for the law of libel we could probably make a very nice little thing out of it . ’ |
| 13 | There are , after all , even larger numbers : 10 46 , for instance , is not just larger ; you must add 10 40 to itself a million times in order to obtain 10 46 What if we could somehow muster a gang of 10 46 monkeys each with its own typewriter ? |
| 14 | If the basic principles of wound care are not followed with respect for the natural healing process , even though most patients are young and fit , we could occasionally see a disastrous outcome from a wound . |
| 15 | Dorrainge said that at any minute Cathbad would start talking about holding a pig-sticking party , and Cathbad , who was plunging about happily in the wild sorrel , said , ‘ And if we could only hold a pig-sticking party … |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , but we could only take a certain amount of weight . ’ |
| 17 | As individuals we could only raise a fraction of the figure from our personal resources , but Barclays were able to provide a Basis Loan , which together with conventional bank facilities , was enough to fund the purchase . |
| 18 | Brady explained : ‘ Jack Charlton wrote to me , saying he was sorry about the way it had ended and expressing the hope that we could still have a decent relationship . |
| 19 | ‘ If we beat Oxford and Plymouth on Saturday , we could still have a chance of automatic promotion . |
| 20 | Can the right hon. Gentleman confirm that on 6 March 1991 , in answer to question 40 , Rear Admiral Pirnie said that Britain could maintain a continuous patrol with three Trident submarines , and that with one submarine in refit we could still maintain a continuous patrol with only two submarines ? |
| 21 | Always , we could never keep a kettle of hot water in the house . |
| 22 | ‘ We could always make a start , ’ Southgate quipped . |
| 23 | We could always try a 6 man defence ! ! ! ; - ) |
| 24 | Hey — if the worst comes to the worst we could always have a ‘ safe ’ official list , and an ‘ alternative ’ list . |
| 25 | It had come from Eire , but was so like the one I had received from my folk in Somerset , we could hardly believe a Catholic and a Non-Conformist Junior Church magazine could look so much alike . |
| 26 | Imagine that we could directly observe a particular person 's or group 's expectation formed last period of the current period 's value of an economic variable . |
| 27 | We could therefore make a rule that ‘ melodies should begin with two sentences , each comprising two phrases etc. ’ , but we must refrain from doing so . |
| 28 | If we could once achieve a synthesis |
| 29 | We know that the actual reorganization is going to cost thirty million I would have thought that every possible drainage problem could ever West Sussex could easily be rectified with thirty million pounds and we could all name a project er on which we would like to spend thirty million pounds . |
| 30 | As Clive Moxon , the Secretary says ‘ we could almost start a branch of our own , with an area , branch , service and district managers , two inspectors , three surveyors , a fumigation manager , a branch secretary , three service controllers and six technicians . ’ |