Example sentences of "of [noun sg] we could " in BNC.

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1 Together with the right kind of support we could have fun together and achieve so much for ourselves and our diocese .
2 There 's fresh water , and I found some fishing tackle , so with a bit of luck we could be eating in style tonight . ’
3 Suppose indeed that we were hedged in by limitations of comprehension we could not comprehend ?
4 Of course we could .
5 I want you to note that I am not singing just ‘ Take my back , because it is my best feature ’ ( in the mirror we could see her beautiful strong back in the low cut of the dress , and of course we could see ourselves too ) .
6 When I got there he was pleased to see me ; he seemed to expect us to be able to do something about his leg but of course we could n't .
7 After a while we appeared to stop accelerating in this nose-high stance — and of course we could no longer clearly see where we were going , so I eased the yoke forward to lift us onto the step .
8 Of course we could leave things as they are and just go our own ways , but it would n't work .
9 Of course we could always go to Lazonby , ’ he suggests .
10 The anti-realist does not believe in the existence of this further ‘ real ’ world which lies behind the world that we know and which may come apart from our world in ways which of course we could not recognize if they occurred .
11 In this example we can start at P , go to M and then to D. So the angle is called PMD. of course we could just as easily start at D , go to M and then to P and call the angle DMP .
12 And then of course we could go out and er as much as we liked then .
13 Aye , of course we could n't go near him , we shoot him from a distance , .
14 brown tiles and it was brown tiles all in that room and of course we could n't , we had started a business and all the money had gone into the business and we could n't afford to , to start carpeting , it was impossible , so , but that room really looked superb I think , I had huge rugs , you know , one in front of the fireplace and another one this end and the other end in colour , in colours , and there really , it really looked nice and the floor was polished up to the nines , you know , er right through here all polished all the same colour
15 ‘ Well , of course we could n't if we had to , but my godmother really is a fairy godmother .
16 But of course we could n't ignore the factors which er were argued in front of the judge and which led the judge to make his ruling .
17 Of course we could yeah anybody could
18 There are other principles of reasoning we could mention .
19 Mother and I decided that in the interests of hygiene we could not take Father 's body into Chiguana , but must bury him where he lay .
20 If it was n't for the law of libel we could probably make a very nice little thing out of it . ’
21 I itemise below the categories of work we could carry out for you in relation to establishing and developing the early stages of your group 's development programme , together with fee estimates .
22 Then we wrapped ourselves in every bit of clothing we could find and lay down on the ground to get some sleep .
23 But , on the morning of departure we could not develop full power , and then spent four frustrating days trying to fix it .
24 ‘ What a deal of nuisance we could all have saved ourselves , ’ remarked Carnelian 's voice .
25 ‘ There 's a tin of pork we could have as well , ’ said Mick .
26 ‘ What I do know is that the scale of success we could be embarking upon far out-strips anything I experienced at Liverpool .
27 So I mean from a couple of bits of information we could tell they had sheep , they probably ate them , teeth marks on it , things like that .
28 Had we known about it because this is the sort of thing we could of gone
29 As a simple rule of thumb we could say that major differences in thermoregulation are determined by whether heat is derived solely from the environment , or is entirely internally generated , or is somewhere between the two .
30 With the resurgence in the popularity of cider we could well see increased competition between the Big Three : Bulmers , Showerings and Taunton , the last named now under its new management buy-out ownership .
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